1908 - Special Over Virginian

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Roanoke Times - April 7, 1908

SPECIAL OVER VIRGINIAN

Officials of Road and McArthur Brothers Visit Completed Western Section

   A party of officials of the Virginia Railroad accompanied by 
representatives of MacArthur Bros., the well known contractors, left 
here yesterday for a trip over that portion of the Virginian which 
was built by MacArthur Bros., a distance of one hundred and eight miles.
   The party included General Manager Dupuy, Chief Engineer 
Fernstrom, General Attorney Knight, Assistant Chief Engineer Elmore, 
Superintendent of Construction Taylor, and Messrs. A. V. MacArthur, 
vice-president and general manager of MacArthur Brothers; D. Madden, 
general superintendent; David Sloan, chief engineer; Judge H. W. 
McGee, and Mr. A. E. Snyder, of the local office, of MacArthur Bros.
   They left Roanoke in the Virginian's private car Dixie, and went 
west twenty-three miles, to Ellett, on their own tracks. The private 
car was then taken back to the Norfolk and Western and transferred to 
a point farther west, to meet the inspecting party, who traveled 
horseback along the line where the rails had not been laid.

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