Virginian in 1910--Contract

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
September 8, 1910

LET CONTRACT SOON
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Harper Hill Curves on Virginian Railway to be Revised
    The contract for the revision of the Harper Hill curves on the Virginian will be let shortly.  The work will revise about four miles of track and do away with the wooden trestles in that region which will be replaced with steel viaducts.  It is the plan of the road to at once commence the work of replacing every wooden trestle on the line with steel viaducts.  This work will take the better part of the next two years and will make the road a great deal safer from a traffic standpoint.  It is also said on good authority that the Virginian will enter Beckley, but no date has been set so far as can be learned for this entry into the Raleigh county capital.  The wooden trestle at Slab Fork is to be replaced at once with a steel viaduct.  This is one of the highest trestles on the entire line.
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[A VGN track chart shows Harper to be 23.9 miles west of Mullens at the apex of a climb from both directions and Slab Fork to be 11.2 miles west of Mullens on the westbound climb to Jenny Gap, both on the main line to Deepwater.]

Gordon Hamilton
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