VGN in 1912--Princeton shops

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
March 10, 1912

IN CITY AND COALFIELD
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Improvements at Princeton
    H. Fernstorm, chief engineer of the Virginian Railway, says with reference to proposed improvements at Princeton that the company's plans contemplate a twelve-stall stripping shop, a seventy-five foot transfer table, a 100-ton [100-foot?] extension of the erecting shop, one twenty-ton and one-thirty-ton traveling crane and a 10-stall extension to the present roundhouse, with an annex and lavatory.  Bids are being asked for a part of this work, but the total cost is not yet determined.
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PRINCETON DAY-BY-DAY
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Work Begins on Shops
    Work has begun in earnest upon the new machine shops and round house of the Virginian Railway at this place.  Excavations for the foundations are being dug despite the bad weather and the whole yard has taken on an air of rush and bustling activity.
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Personals
    Several of the Virginian Railway officials have been in the city for the past few days, being quartered in the private car "Dixie" on the local yards.
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Gordon Hamilton
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