N&W 1904

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Passenger train No. 16 from the Pocohontas division was delayed four or five hours last evening by a freight train wreck.  Several big battleship coal cars were derailed.  No one was hurt.

Bluefield Daily Telegraph, June 16, 1904

[Apparently, the term "battleship" was used to describe big coal cars on the N&W long before the term was applied to Virginian gons.]
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