N&W in 1904 -- Bluefield Yard

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YARD IMPROVEMENTS WILL BE PUSHED
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Partial Completion of Facilities to be Made at Once
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    It was learned yesterday that the Norfolk and Western Railway Company will complete at once eight sidings running from the tower to the state line [WV & VA], and also as many tracks in the east end.  These tracks are to be completed before any other work looking to yard improvements is begun.  As soon as these tracks are ready for service, work will begin on the remainder of the yard, and continue until it is finished.  Railroad men who are well informed say that when completed that Bluefield yards will be the largest and best equipped in the section of country south of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi.  With the sixteen tracks that are being pushed to completion the yard will be by far the largest in West Virginia.  The cost of these yards will be immense.  The prices paid for the property purchased direct as well as that condemned, has been large, as much of it was improved real estate on which were handsome and costly buildings, which will have to be torn away.
    It will be thus seen that the improvements contemplated will cost an immense sum of money, and that while the work is in progress Bluefield will be the gainer, and will be permanently improved by the completion.  The expenditure of this vast sum of money ought at least to put an end to the report that at intervals is repeated to the effect that the railway company is contemplating a cut-off from the coal fields to New River that will leave Bluefield off of the route.

Bluefield Daily Telegraph
July 20, 1904

Gordon Hamilton
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