N&W in 1912--Switchmen and Mallet engines

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Sat., March 23, 1912

SWITCHMEN KEPT BUSY
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Eastbound Movement Yesterday Heaviest in History of Local Yard
    Yesterday probably witnessed the heaviest eastbound traffic through Bluefield in the history of the Norfolk and Western.  Between the hours of 6:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. there were sent off this division no less than thirty-eight trains, and the yard switchmen were a busy set of men.  This total included six passenger trains and thirty-two freights, twenty-eight of the latter requiring two engines each to pull them.  Twenty nine were coal trains and three were time freights.  The west bound movement of the day was above normal.
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NEW MALLET ENGINES
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Norfolk and Western Also Gives Order for Steel Rails
    According to the current issue of the Manufacturer's Record the Norfolk and Western is contemplating the purchase of twenty-five Mallet engines. The road has also distributed its order for 32,000 tons of steel rails among four of the Pennsylvania steel rail concerns. The Norfolk and Western already has orders placed for several Mallet engines and is building engines at its own shops in Roanoke. The engine which recently was wrecked when the crown sheet blew down on the Norfolk division was a product of the Norfolk and Western shops and was the only engine on the system equipped with an automatic stoker. The wreck was not caused by reason of any defect, but through the water being allowed to get too low in the boiler.
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Gordon Hamilton
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