Past Holiday Traffic

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While looking through the newspaper archives at the Library of Virginia (
https://virginiachronicle.com/) I ran across this brief mention of
holiday traffic just over 100 years ago.

Several questions pop up from this: what was an "express coach" in 1915?
Where did "several tons" of dressed fowl come from and where were they
processed? Was there a packing house in Roanoke or did they come from
various other points?

Bruce in Blacksburg
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World News, Volume 26, Number 149, 22 December 1915, pg. 1

N. & W. HAS HEAVY HOLIDAY EXPRESS
The express shipments over the Norfolk & Western are said by officials to
be the heaviest in years. Every train carries extra express coaches. Last
night a special express train of eight coaches left Roanoke for Washington
and other Northern points. The shipments consisted chiefly of dressed fowl,
amounting to several tons.
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