Virginian in 1910--Equipment

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
March 4, 1910

VIRGINIAN RAILWAY LACKS EQUIPMENT
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Has Never Found Slightest Difficulty in Finding a Market for Its Coal
    Raymond Dupuy, vice president and general manager of the Virginian railway, and George Reith, division superintendent, arrived in the city Tuesday afternoon from Norfolk and spent the night at Hotel Roanoke, says the Roanoke Times.  They are making a tour of inspection over the line and from Roanoke will go to the western terminus.  Mr. Dupuy has been connected with the Virginian almost from the day the building of the road began.  He has seen it pass through many vicissitudes, through the depression of 1907 and 1908, and through its early struggles, and he is today the guiding genius of its destiny.  He knows every foot of the Virginian from Norfolk to Deepwater, and is familiar with every hill and valley through which it passes.
    The growth of business on the Virginian has been most gratifying to those who are interested in it.  The volume of its traffic has increased steadily and the number of trains now going through Roanoke is much larger than what it was a few months ago. An official of the Virginian says that the road needs badly more engines.  Its car equipment has kept ahead of the locomotive equipment and the principal trouble now encountered is in procuring the power to handle its trains.  A large number of engines are being built and are being delivered from time to time, but the delivery does not keep pace with the increase of business.
    Speaking of the real supply of the mines along the road, it is said that the Virginian has never had the slightest difficulty in finding a market for its output; that it has had a place for every ton of coal taken out of the ground, and that as the mines are opened their output is taken care of without the slightest trouble.  "The Winding Gulf" says a Virginian official, "will develop one of the richest coal sections in West Virginia, and when the various operations there are at work the road will be able to meet every demand for coal which it may receive.'
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Gordon Hamilton
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