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<DIV>Alex,</DIV>
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<DIV>Thank you for calling my attention to an error in my comments about the
ends of double track on the Pocahontas Division in early 1910. The
timetable page that I refered to listed miles from Williamson to
Bluefield (eastward) whereas I am used to thinking in increasing milepost order
(westward), so the error crept in.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The following corrected info is from TT No. 18, eff. Sun., May 15th, 1910
(in the N&WHS Archives) and lists miles from Bluefield (Wyoming and Jim are
bracketed by more familiar locations to aid in understanding where they were
located.):</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Distance</DIV>
<DIV>0
Bluefield E. End
DT</DIV>
<DIV>
(26.2 mi. DT)</DIV>
<DIV>26.2 East
Vivian W. End DT
</DIV>
<DIV>
(5.5 mi. ST)</DIV>
<DIV>31.7
Huger E. End
DT </DIV>
<DIV>64.7
Panther (35.6
mi. DT)</DIV>
<DIV>67.3
Wyoming W. End DT </DIV>
<DIV>69.7 Alnwick</DIV>
<DIV> (15.2
mi ST. Passing siding at Alnwick)</DIV>
<DIV>82.0 Devon</DIV>
<DIV>82.5
Jim
E. End DT </DIV>
<DIV>86.5 Sands</DIV>
<DIV>
(21.9 mi. DT)</DIV>
<DIV>89.1 Delorme</DIV>
<DIV>104.4 E.Williamson
W. End DT </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> Because the double tracking was an on-going project during early
1910, the ends of double track changed as the work progressed.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Gordon Hamilton</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 06, 2009 9:28
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: N&W in
1910--Improvements</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Wyoming, also known as Wyoming City and Wyoming
Station is located near the McDowell-MIngo County boarder at the mouth of
Fourpole Creek. I expect that would put the community at the east
end of the 12.8- mile double track if Jim is west of Devon. N&W
places the community at milepost N432.22</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Wyoming was platted as a community with 61 lots
and the first lot was sold on June 12, 1893. The community got a big
boost in 1899 when W.G.W Iaeger sold 9,000 acres of timber rights in the
vicinity to what became the Longpole Lumber Company. Longpole
Lumber Co. built a lumber mill and manufacturing co. at Wyoming
City. They also operated a 42-inch gauge lumber railroad up Fourpole and
Longpole creeks.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Alex Schust</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, September 05, 2009 3:12
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> N&W in
1910--Improvements</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>January 28,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=5>$3,500,000 TO BE EXPENDED ON THIS
DIVISION</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center>------</DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT size=5>Twenty-one Contractors Figuring on
Work for Norfolk and Western</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=center>------</DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>MANY SHARP CURVES ARE TO BE CUT
OUT</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center>------</DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG>Two Tunnels Will be Driven Between Kimball and
Welch and Double Track, it is Learned, Will Be Laid at Once</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=center>------</DIV>
<DIV align=center>TWO MILLIONS APPROPRIATED FOR DRY FORK CUT OFF</DIV>
<DIV align=center>------</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The Daily Telegraph stated recently that
the Norfolk and Western is to let a number of contracts on February 1st for
work on the Pocahontas and Scioto divisions. Following this statement
it is now learned, unofficially, that the work on this division alone will
amount to over $3,500,000 while the work on the Sciota division will reach
$1,500,000. Two tunnels between Kimball and Welch will be built in
addition to straightening the track at several points. Double track
will be laid between West Vivian or Kimball and Huger, while a double track
tunnel will be built in Kimball which will cut off from where the old
station was located and pass through the hill at that point. This
tunnel will pass very closely underneath the cemetery. At Big Four
another tunnel will be built. The Dry Fork tunnel, which will be 4,700
feet long, will also be constructed. This will be a single track
tunnel, and it is learned that there has been about $2,000,000 appropriated
for work on the Dry Fork cut off which will eventually connect with the
Clinch Valley division</DIV>
<DIV align=left> At Kimball the company will extend its
yards west, putting in several tracks which are known as classification
tracks. Near Wyoming the company will build double track from Wyoming
to mile post 435 and from mile post 445 1/2 to 447. A number of sharp
curves will be cut out and if the original plan is followed tunnels will be
constructed at Panther, Mount's Curve and Delorme. The tunnels are to
be 1,200, 1,800 and 1,500 feet respectively. The Kimball tunnel,
outside of approaches, will be about 900 feet in length while the Big Four
tunnel without the approaches will be about 600 feet in length.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Twenty-one contracts have been figuring
on the work and most of them were in this city yesterday morning and last
night. They arrived at various times from the field and will leave
here for Roanoke where they will submit their bids on the first of February
when the contracts will either be let or turned down according to the bids
which will be received.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The work which is to be done will be of
the greatest importance to the Norfolk and Western, as it will straighten
out many places in the line which are in first class condition but which now
cost the company a great deal of money on account of the curves which are a
continual wear on equipment and which require a heavy outlay to
maintain. The most noticeable of all the improvements which have been
made up to date on the road are those near Roderfield, or the present
station, Claren; at Welch, where a tunnel allows the road to save a long
haul on a continual curve; and between Hallsville and Hemphill, where two
tunnels cut off quite a distance. There are a number of other places
which were greatly and materially improved by the six tunnels which were
built in 1907 and their effect on the earnings of the road has been
apparent, inasmuch as they primarily saved mileage and then the ordinary
wear which every one connected with a railroad knows is continual on a road
cut up with curves. When the original plans of the company are
complete the Norfolk and Western will be perhaps the best coal carrying road
in the country. All of the proposed work in addition to many other
improvements is being made without any great additional outlays and in face
of an increased dividend.</DIV>
<DIV align=center>------</DIV>
<DIV align=left>[<EM>A 1910 operating timetable in the N&WHS Archives
shows Wyoming to be about midway between Panther and Alnwick. Wyoming
was the west end of the 12.8-mile double track whose east end was at Jim,
which was 0.5 mi. west of Devon. A Pocahontas division track chart
reveals that the proposed tunnels at Panther and Delorme were never
built. The tunnel at Mount's Curve is doubtful as that name does not
show up in the operating timetables of 1909 and 1910.</EM>]</DIV>
<DIV align=left> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon Hamilton</FONT></DIV>
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