N&W in 1911--Pumping station

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
June 21, 1911

THE GRAHAM DAILY NEWS
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New Pumping Station
    Workmen have begun the foundation for the addition to Norfolk and Western pumping station here.  The stone is being received from the quarry on the premises of Mrs. A. C. Davidson at Nemours for the masonry work.
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[In 1911 at the junction where the Clinch Valley line branched off the main line there was a track (long since gone) between the Clinch Valley line and the main line west of the junction that formed a wye with the main line and the Clinch Valley line.  The pumping station was inside the wye and pumped water from the nearby Bluestone River to be piped to the N&W's facilities in Bluefield, WV.  In later years the Bluefield, VA, passenger station was on the south side of the Clinch Valley track not far from where the pumping station was located.  But in 1911 the combined freight and passenger station was located east of the junction at Spruce street.  Nemours, WV (where the stone for the pumping station was quarried) is located on the N&W between Flat Top Yard and Bluestone Jct., and was the site of a large E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. gunpowder plant, presumably located there to supply the coalfields (or maybe the Hatfields and McCoys).]

Gordon Hamilton
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