RE:N&W in 1910--Dispatchers furloughed

[NW Mailing List]

Please forgive my ignorance. Can you tell me was there an economic recession or worse a depression taking place at this time to cause the Norfolk & Western to furlough staff?

The news item despite being 100 years old has painful echoes of today's railroad situation.

Best regards to you all,

Cameron Tyre
locomotive engineer

Largs,
Ayr County,
Scotland,
United Kingdom

Sent from my Norfolk Southern ThoroughbredBerry on O2-UK