N&W in 1910--Record run

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
June 29, 1910

RECORD RUN
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No. 4 Goes to Norfolk Hour and Half Faster Than Schedule

    Train No. 4, which left this city Monday several hours late as a result of a slide between Naugatuck and Kermit, made a record run from Bluefield to Norfolk.  The schedule between this city and Norfolk is faster than any schedule the road has ever had between these points before and passenger trains are supposed to make the trip of 363 miles in ten hours and thirty-five minutes.  No. 4 Monday made the run in nine hours and five minutes, or one hour and thirty minutes faster than schedule.  When the train left Bluefield it carried a mail car, baggage car, two coaches, a dining car and two Pullmans.  On arrival at Roanoke it was trimmed until it had nothing left but the mail and baggage cars and a coach.  With this light load no stops were made except at Lynchburg and Petersburg, the train pulling into Norfolk as a special mail train which carried one passenger, who was going to Norfolk.
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Gordon Hamilton
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