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<DIV>A couple of articles from the Bluefield Daily Telegraph on the
N&W's Clinch Valley line have mentioned a station on that line named
"Kiser," and I have commented that Kiser became present-day Carbo. Louis
Newton told me that the change was made because the name Kiser sounded too much
like the German Kaiser of WW I.</DIV>
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<DIV>A check of N&W Pocahontas division operating timetables in the NWHS
Archives reveals that Kiser last appeared in TT No. 10 eff. 5/25/19 and that
Carbo first appeared in TT No. 13 (11 and 12 omitted) eff. 5/30/20.
Although the war was over in 1919, apparently the bad connotation persisted and
caused the name change.</DIV>
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<DIV>Gordon Hamilton</DIV></BODY></HTML>