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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>February 2,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>FIFTY LOCOMOTIVES AND 2,500 FREIGHT
CARS</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Total Amount of Norfolk and Western Contracts for
Rolling Stock Exceeds $3,500,000</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> Roanoke, Va., Feb. 1--The Norfolk and Western
Railway Company gave out contracts today for 2,500 cars and fifty
locomotives. The total amounts of the contracts exceeded $3,500,000.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Contracts were awarded as follows:</DIV>
<DIV align=left> American Locomotive Works, Richmond, sixteen
passenger engines.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, forty
freight engines.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> American Car and Foundry Company, Huntington,
W. Va. 1,500 all steel cars, 50,000 capacity.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> American Car and Foundry Company, Huntington,
W. Va. 500 steel side and underframe box cars, 40,000 pounds capacity.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Western Steel Car and Foundry Co. Hegewisch,
Ill. 500 all steel, fifty-ton gondolas.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> These concerns are under contract to begin
delivery of these orders June 1, and it is fully expected that the entire
combined orders of locomotives and cars will be ready for use by the time the
proposed double trackage through the coal fields and through Ohio is
completed.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>I'll bet the "50,000 capacity" and "40,000 pounds capacity"
were actually 50-tons capacity and 40-tons capacity, respectively. These
capacities were typical by 1910 as shown by an N&W drawing in the N&WHS
Archives: C10157, TOP CENTER PLATE FOR 40 AND 50 TON FREIGHT CARS AND TENDERS,
dated 12/06/1909.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>