N&W in 1910--Sandusky line

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
March 6, 1910

NORFOLK AND WESTERN ACQUIRES COLUMBUS, SANDUSKY AND HOCKING
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Announcement of Deal Will be Made Within Two Weeks--Securing of Lake Outlet Will Please Coal Operators
    According to what appears to be reliable information the Daily Telegraph is able to state that announcement will be made within the next two weeks, from the main offices of the Norfolk and Western or from the Philadelphia offices, that the road has acquired the Columbus, Sandusky and Hocking Railroad, which runs between Columbus, Ohio and Sandusky on Lake Erie.  Final arrangements for the transfer of the road are in course of completion and by the first of April the Norfolk and Western will have acquired the line.
    The above deal has been reported as under consideration for some time in the Daily Telegraph, and the reports have caused a great deal of satisfaction in the coal field, where the shippers have for a long time wanted to see the Norfolk and Western acquire a lake outlet which would prevent the holding of cars at Columbus until other roads were able to take care of them.  The acquirement of the Columbus, Sandusky and Hocking will also help the Norfolk and Western car question by enabling the road to handle its cars over its own tracks and in this way prevent their being diverted to other lines, thereby preventing them from being returned to the field as soon as would like.
    What connection the arrangement has with the statements which have been published that the Pennsylvania has secured control of the Norfolk and Western is not known, and as long as it does not affect the broad policy of the Norfolk and Western the local operators do not care.  As has been reported the Norfolk and Western has secured right-of-way at Columbus, near the Franklin county buildings, which gives the road plenty of yard space and by the moving of the Norfolk and Western tracks about forty feet the road will be able to send its own trains on to Sandusky.  It is also likely that in a short time contracts for shops and other improvements on the Norfolk and Western property near Columbus will be let.  Instead of Columbus, Cincinnati, Norfolk, Shenandoah, Winston-Salem, Bristol and Norton being the main terminals of the local road Columbus will in the future have to be left out and Sandusky added to the list.

[This reporter was prescient by about 54 years.]

Gordon Hamilton
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