N&W in 1911--Pumping station

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Gordon:
 
I suspect you may have meant to say either that "In later years...station  
was on the north side of the Clinch Valley track...." or that it was on  the 
"....south side of the main line track...". 
 
Dave Phelps
 
 
In a message dated 2/12/2011 6:46:47 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

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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