N&W in 1910--Dumps Creek branch

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I always wondered why the area north of Carbo was called Clinchfield.
That makes sense now.

Sandy Ridge tunnel on the branch was also N&W's longest, wasn't it?

Ben Blevins


On 10/2/09, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

> Bluefield Daily Telegraph

> March 13, 1910

>

> RUSHING BRIDGE WORK

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>     The Dumps Creek extension of the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway

> [Became N&W's Dumps Creek branch in 1956.] will be shipping coal over the

> new rails by March 23.  This statement was made last night by a gentleman

> who is close to the management of the road and who should know.  At Present

> the forces at work on the extension are busy with bridge work.  Six miles of

> grading have been completed and three miles of track has been laid.  This

> work will connect the road with the Norfolk and Western at Kiser [Renamed

> Carbo somewhere in 1919-1920.] from which point the Norfolk and Western

> tracks will be used as far as St. Paul.  From  that point south the road

> will use its own rails until it reaches Spartanburg.

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> Gordon Hamilton