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I do not know who is posting these newspaper articles, but thank you for  
doing so.  I am attempting to model this time period and these "news  updates" 
have been most interesting.  Please keep them coming.
 
Chuck Stewart
Bahama, NC
Durham District
Formerly the Lynchburg and Durham Railroad
 
n a message dated 1/22/2007 9:24:38 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

Roanoke  Times, Tuesday, January 22, 1907

RAILROAD NOTES

N&W Pushing  Important Work.
Mr. Francis T. Brinkley, division freight  agent of the Norfolk and 
Western railway, was in Bristol  Saturday.
Speaking of the improvements on the Norfolk and  Western, Mr 
Brinkley said that the company had made wonderful strides, but  that 
after all it had not been able to keep up with the enormous demands  
upon its 1,000 miles of road. The company added to its rolling stock  
last July and August fifty-five new locomotives . It has added five  
more since the first of the year. It has let the contract for 1,000  
new freight cars, and is building in its own shops at Roanoke 5,000  
freight cars. It has also let the contract for twenty-five new  
engines. As soon as the company has completed the 500 cars on which 
it  is now working in Roanoke, it will begin on the construction of an  
additional 1,000.
In addition to all this work, the  company is spending large sums 
of money double-tracking, building new  track and lowering the grades.
Much work of this kind is in  progress between Roanoke and 
Lynchburg, and at Lynchburg a cut-off of  twenty-one miles is being 
constructed in order to make speed by routing  trains around the city.
In West Virginia much heavy work is  being done in order to lower 
grades, and double tracks are being  constructed. Seven tunnels are to 
be driven in West Virginia in order to  get the kind of grade desired.
Altogether the Norfolk and  Western company is doing an enormous 
lot of work, and when it is completed  the great system will have been 
benefited wonderfully, and the company  will be in much better shape 
to take care of the increasing traffic -  Bristol Courier.





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