N&W in 1910--Misc.

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
January 9, 1910

IN CITY AND COALFIELD
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New Signal System
    The Norfolk and Western has installed an automatic signal system at Blake and yesterday the apparatus was put in working order for the first time.  The local road is equipping a number of its towers with automatic signal systems so as to reduce to a minimum all chances of accidents.
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Depot Closed
    The Norfolk and Western has closed the depot at Fink, on the Clinch Valley.  Fink, up to the time of the building of the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio, was the junction point between the Norfolk and Western and the Virginia and Southwestern.  The junction point is now located at St. Paul, which town is but a half mile from Fink.
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[The second article implies that the Va. & SW reached Fink 24 or so miles east of Norton, but the Va. & SW connected with the N&W at Norton through trackage rights over the L&N and, insofar as I know, had trackage rights over the N&W only to Coeburn 12 miles east of Norton and up the branch there to Toms Creek.  A depot for the junction with the CC&O (not the Va. & SW ) may have been what was moved from Fink to St. Paul.]

Gordon Hamilton
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