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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>August 28,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4>NORFOLK AND WESTERN GETS
SIX OF NEW ENGINES</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">Richmond Works to
Increase Force to 2,500 Men to Handle New Contract for Forty
Locomotives</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman"> The Richmond
branch of the American Locomotive Works is arranging to increase its working
force to twenty-five hundred in order to handle two new contracts just closed
for the construction of forty railway locomotives. The works already
employ fifteen hundred men. Thirty-four of these engines are to be of the
consolidation freight type, and are to be delivered to the Baltimore and Ohio
during the months of October and November. The remaining six are to be of
the Pacific passenger type, and are ordered by the Norfolk and Western
railway. These passenger engines will be the biggest of their kind, and
are designed to produce immense tractive power combined with speed running over
sixty miles an hour. The Norfolk and Western engines are to be delivered
in November.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman"> In order that
these contracts may be filled without trouble of delay the management of the
works is inaugurating a new wage system which from an economical standpoint will
be of great advantage both to the works and to the men employed. This
system does away with all piece work and its many complications, and establishes
in its stead a flat time rate with extra pay added as an incentive for annual
efficiency. By this system more money on the average will be paid to the
men, and much better results are expected to be attained.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman">[<EM>Rosters do not show any
Pacific engines delivered to the N&W in 1909, so apparently the expected
November 1909 delivery was delayed into 1910. According to Jeffries' book,
these six more powerful Pacifics would have been the Class E2, No. 574 - 579,
delivered in February and March 1910.</EM>]</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>