Virginian in 1910--Bluefield inspection

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
February 12, 1910

VIRGINIAN OFFICIALS INSPECT LOCAL YARD
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Declare They Never Saw Such a High Degree of Efficiency in Handling Traffic Anywhere Else

    Superintendent Taylor of the Virginian Railway, and R. P. C. Sanderson, superintendent of motive power of the road, were in the city yesterday on a tour of inspection of the local yard.  Mr. Taylor said that the Norfolk and Western Bluefield yards have a reputation for efficiency and that he and Mr. Sanderson had come to this city to look them over.  The Telegraph representative told Mr. Taylor that he was seeing the yard under the most adverse condition that have ever been present here, on account of the severe storm.  Mr. Taylor admitted that this was true and said that under the conditions he had never seen such a high degree of efficiency.  He was borne out in this statement by Mr. Sanderson, who said the local yard had a most efficient method of handling traffic and even the severe storm of yesterday did not seem to affect the well trained men who have made the local yard a success.
    When asked if they had visited the west end yards the gentlemen said they had and were pleasantly surprised both as to the equipment and the efficient way in which the trains are handled.
    The gentlemen expected that they would find a number of methods in use here which would be of service to them at Princeton and other places along the Virginian.
    Messrs. Taylor and Sanderson are only a few of the foreign railroad superintendents who have visited the local yards at various times and every time they come here they go away surprised at the modern methods in use here and the excellent "corps d'esprit" [sic] which exists among the local forces who make the yards a success from a railroad standpoint.
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[Article headers in that day's issue describe the previous day's storm as being the "Worst Storm City Has Ever Seen."  The attached picture from the Va. Tech image base shows the traffic handled by the Bluefield yard in 1910.]

Gordon Hamilton
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