N&W in 1909--Phones

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
October 13, 1909

RAILWAY TESTING EFFICIENCY OF PHONE
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Norfolk and Western Adopts Telephone Train Dispatch

    The Norfolk and Western Railroad [sic] has recently put into service two telephone circuits for handling its trains, one between Roanoke, Va., and Bluefield, 102 miles, the other between Bluefield and Williamson, 107 miles.  There are 16 stations on the former and 22 stations on the latter.  The Western Electric Company's telephone equipment and Gill selectors are used on both circuits.
    This equipment extends through some very mountainous country and affords a good test of telephone train dispatching under very severe conditions.  This equipment has been in service since September 25th, and Mr. W. C. Walstrom, superintendent of telegraph, reports that both circuits have been giving excellent service since that time.  A feature of interest in connection with one of these circuits is that the telephone was pressed into service before being fairly completed owing to the telegraph circuits having gone out of commission due to the recent widespread electrical disturbance attributed to the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights.
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Gordon Hamilton
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