N&W in 1911--Dam railroad

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Gordon:
 
It's Byllesby according to the AEP web site.  Pretty location; Dad  used to 
take me with him in the summer when school was out and he had a short  
service call to make (he and my grandfather/his father were both AEP employees  
their entire professional careers).
 
Dave Phelps
 
 
In a message dated 3/13/2011 9:22:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

Bluefield Daily Telegraph
August 1,  1911
 
RAILROAD TO DAMS
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Five Miles to be Built on Cripple Creek  Branch
    Five miles of railroad are to be built on  the Cripple Creek branch of 
the Norfolk and Western, extending from Grayson to  a point where the 
Appalachian Power Company is to build its dams on New  River.  The contract for 
this work has been let to J. J. Boxley &  Sons.  The work, which will be 
started at once and pushed so that  material may be carried to the Appalachian 
Power Company's camps, will be of a  heavy nature.  About three thousand yards 
of masonry will have to be put  in for bridges, culverts, etc.  The 
Appalachian Power Company recently  placed an order for 100,000 barrels of cement 
to be used in the construction  of its dams, which will be used to generate 
power to electrically  operate the mines and other plants in the territory 
adjacent to the  Norfolk and Western lines in the coalfields and east of 
Bluefield.
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[Appalachian has two dams locate along the former  N&W  Cripple Creek 
Extension (now a hiking/biking trail), viz.,  Byllisby @ 21.5 MW and Buck @ 8.5 
MW.]
 
Gordon  Hamilton


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