N&W in 1910--Car utilization

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
October 21, 1910

TO SECURE QUICKER HANDLING OF COAL CARS
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Operating Officials of Norfolk and Western Look Into Affairs at the Columbus Terminals
    Operating officials of the Norfolk and Western have recently been to Columbus looking after affairs at the terminals in that city and also the transfer yards of connecting lines where there are hundreds of cars of coal from the fields along the Norfolk and Western.
    A condition now prevails in the Norfolk and Western coalfields which is probably without precedent in the district.  The movement of the coal from the mines along its lines has come to be a problem of immense proportions.  Seven years ago the work of doubling tracking the road in the Williamson district was begun, and this work aided by the construction of the Big Sandy line, has given the road practically two tracks from east of Williamson to Kenova.  This double tracking is now being extended to Columbus and this has given some relief from the congestion.
    However, both the Thacker and Flat Top fields are showing up a car shortage and the equipment of the road is being taxed to the utmost.  It is stated by officers of the road that during the last month coal trains of full complement have passed over the Kenova bridge at the rate of one train every twenty minutes [This was the original single-track bridge.  Annual Reports show the double-track bridge completed in Spring 1913.].  The trip of the officers is being made to secure the quicker handling of cars at transfer points and the immediate return of cars as soon as unloaded.
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Gordon Hamilton
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