N&W in 1911--Special train

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
March 30, 1911

CARLOAD OF TINFOIL
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Special Engine Pulling it to Tobacco Plant at Winston-Salem
    Every man who uses tobacco has at one time or other started to save the tin foil* which is found in every package because he though it was valuable.  Every little bit added to what you have got makes just a little bit more, but that is not the way the American Tobacco Company buys tinfoil.  Last night a single car to which was attached an engine passed through the city as second 16 and the freight train, for it was such, was making a passenger train schedule to Winston-Salem, N. C.,  with a car load of tin foil to be used in the American Tobacco Co. plants in that vicinity.  It became reported through the city that the car contained tin plates which were being shipped to Mexico for use in the army camps**, but this report had no foundation.  It is reported that another car of tin foil will pass through this city this morning en route to Winston-Salem.  Tinfoil must be in demand when two car loads can be shipped within twelve hours with two special engines.  Even the president of the Norfolk and Western rarely rides over the road with a single car and an engine.  Such luxuries are left for the American Tobacco Company when it is in need of tinfoil.  It is said the tin foil will be used to pack rush government orders for tobacco.

*The article was inconsistent in the use of "tinfoil" and "tin foil."

**There was a civil war raging in Mexico at the time.  U. S. forces would later occupy Veracruz.
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Gordon Hamilton
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