N&W in 1910--Roundhouse

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
August 16, 1910

ADDITION TO ROUNDHOUSE TO COST $36,000
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Norfolk and Western Also Plans Increase in Size of Local Division Offices
    The Norfolk and Western has started grading for the addition which is to be made to the roundhouse at a cost of about $36,000.  The addition will consist of twenty-nine feet all the way around the building, which will give the engines ninety-three feet under roof.  This will enable the road to stable the Mallet engines as well as largely increasing the holding capacity of the present stalls, which will be able to hold more engines. Work on the addition will start at once.
    The railroad company also plans to start work the latter part of this month on an addition to the division office which will cost in the neighborhood of $9,000.  This addition is intended to accommodate the Pocahontas Coal and Coke Company offices which will be moved to this city between the time the building is finished and the first of January.  The present plans call for the removal of the offices as soon as the building is finished, but unexpected delays may put off the coming of the company to this city.  Work on this addition to the division offices would be commenced at once but for a lack of material which will arrive shortly.  It is possible that arrangements may be made with the city by which additional land may be secured from the city for the proposed addition to the roundhouse, and inasmuch as the city is largely dependent on the Norfolk and Western at times for favors, which are given at cost and many times without cost, it is very likely that a satisfactory agreement can be reached by which the railroad can get about ten feet of land in the neighborhood of Hardy street which will be used for the enlarged roundhouse.
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Gordon Hamilton
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