N&W in 1910--New equipment

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
February 2, 1910

FIFTY LOCOMOTIVES AND 2,500 FREIGHT CARS
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Total Amount of Norfolk and Western Contracts for Rolling Stock Exceeds $3,500,000

    Roanoke, Va., Feb. 1--The Norfolk and Western Railway Company gave out contracts today for 2,500 cars and fifty locomotives.  The total amounts of the contracts exceeded $3,500,000.
    Contracts were awarded as follows:
    American Locomotive Works, Richmond, sixteen passenger engines.
    Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, forty freight engines.
    American Car and Foundry Company, Huntington, W. Va. 1,500 all steel cars, 50,000 capacity.
    American Car and Foundry Company, Huntington, W. Va. 500 steel side and underframe box cars, 40,000 pounds capacity.
    Western Steel Car and Foundry Co. Hegewisch, Ill. 500 all steel, fifty-ton gondolas.
    These concerns are under contract to begin delivery of these orders June 1, and it is fully expected that the entire combined orders of locomotives and cars will be ready for use by the time the proposed double trackage through the coal fields and through Ohio is completed.
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[I'll bet the "50,000 capacity" and "40,000 pounds capacity" were actually 50-tons capacity and 40-tons capacity, respectively.  These capacities were typical by 1910 as shown by an N&W drawing in the N&WHS Archives: C10157, TOP CENTER PLATE FOR 40 AND 50 TON FREIGHT CARS AND TENDERS, dated 12/06/1909.]

Gordon Hamilton
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