<head><style>body{font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9pt;background-color: #ffffff;color: black;}</style></head><body id="compText">List:<br>I have a copy of a hand written list of 'Steam Derrick Cars'. The only thing close to that delivery date is 4909 (later 514909), 120 T Industrial in service at Weller Yd. 12-15-09. Could this unit have been reassigned to Bluefield? I don't see another 'beast' in Bluefield until 4922, 200 T Industrial, Nov. '27. I have loaned or misplaced my N&W equip. book so I don't have anything to double check.<br>Charlie Long<br>Lynchburg<br><br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 0px;">-----Original Message-----
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<div><font size="2" face="Tunga">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<br>December 18,
1909</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font size="4">IN CITY AND COALFIELD</font></div>
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<div align="center"><strong>New Derrick Wreck Car</strong></div>
<div align="left"> The Norfolk and Western received last night a
new derrick wreck car and the big derrick makes the former ones used by the
company here look like dwarfs by the side of the one just received. The
new wrecker has a capacity of 125 tons and was purchased for the purpose of
retracking the big engines now in use in the event one of them falls off the
track somewhere. The old derrick will be sent to Vivian where it will make
headquarters and the new one will be kept at Bluefield so as to be available for
either three divisions running out of here.*</div>
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<div align="left">[<em>*As explained in my "Nuggets" article
titled, "N&W's Division of Divisions" in the April--June 2008
issue of The Arrow, prior to 6/10/1897 the Clinch Valley was shown as a
separate division from the Pocahontas Division. Apparently that is why
several BDT articles in subsequent years continue to refer to the "Clinch
Valley division" and why this article counts it as a third division--after the
Radford and Pocahontas divisions.</em>]</div>
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<div align="left"><font size="6" face="Script">Gordon
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