NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 40, Issue 47; Columbus District single-tracking

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The segment between MP N-642 and N-652 (Omega to Lunbeck) was single-tracked 
in May 1959.  The segment through Chillicothe was single-tracked sometime 
later, perhaps 1960.

The "grand plan" at that time was to continue single-tracking large portions 
of the Columbus District, but when plans for the N&W-NKP-WAB merger 
developed, management realized that the Columbus District would no doubt see 
an increase in traffic, so the project was not continued.

Louis Newton



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> Bluefield Daily Telegraph

> April 5, 1909

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> MARK TWAIN NOT COMING

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> H. H. Rogers and Party Will Spend Tonight at Princeton

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>    Roanoke, Va., April 5 (Special)--H. H. Rogers, builder of the Virginian 

> railway, and party are in the city and were the guests of the city of 

> Roanoke tonight at a $10-a-plate banquet at Hotel Roanoke.  They will 

> leave tomorrow morning for Princeton, W. Va., where they will spend 

> tomorrow night.  Mark Twain is not with the party.

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> Anyone know the date and logic behind adding the two single track sections 

> to the Columbus District between Omega and Lunbeck and again between 

> Chillicothe and Scioto? I believe it was in the 60's which precedes most 

> of the single tracking done by the feline mascot-ed competitor. I would 

> have assumed the Columbus District would have taken a significant roll in 

> the consolidation plans for when the NKP & Wabash were absorbed, so 

> looking back now it s sort of surprising for it to have happened in the 

> same time frame as the merger.

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> Whit Wardell

> Canal Winchester, OH

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> Bluefield Daily Telegraph

> April 7, 1909

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> HAILED AS GREATEST MAN COUNTRY HAS PRODUCED

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>    Princeton, W. Va., April 6 (Special)--H. H. Rogers and party reached 

> Princeton this afternoon on a special train, being accorded the biggest 

> welcome the builder of the road has received anywhere along the line. 

> Fully 2,000 enthusiastic persons and a brass band met the train and hailed 

> Mr. Rogers as the greatest man the country ever produced.  The special 

> train stayed at Princeton tonight and will go tomorow to Deepwater, the 

> western terminus of the road.  Mr. Rogers will return to New York via 

> Charleston.

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