1908 - N. & W. Abandons $2,000,000 Deal

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Roanoke Times - February 29, 1908

President Johnson Says Work on Pocahontas Division is Postponed

   A decision was reached this week by the officials of the Norfolk & 
Western Railroad to abandon the $2,000,000 of improvements, double 
tracking and extensions of the line on the Pocahontas division of the 
road. This information was conveyed in a letter received here 
yesterday from President L. E. Johnson.
   The matter had been seriously considered, and for a time it looked 
very much as if the work would be begun at once. But, because of 
certain facts which have been considered by the railroad officials, 
however, it is deemed wisest by them to postpone for the present the 
beginning of this work.

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- Ron Davis, Roger Link