N&W in 1903 -- Delays

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TRAIN USES UP THREE ENGINES
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    Three engines and as many engineers were used in pulling No. 4 from Williamson to this city Sunday, and the train arrived here about six hours late.  The first delay occurred at Roderfield, where a bent axle caused the engine to leave the track.  The pony trucks were so badly torn up that another engine had to be sent for before the train could proceed.  This second engine was derailed near Davy, and it too, was too badly damaged to proceed further.  Henry Pile brought the belated train into Bluefield with a freight engine.

Bluefield Daily Telegraph
August 7, 1903

[This was before "Precision Transportation."]

Gordon Hamilton
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