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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>February 12,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>VIRGINIAN OFFICIALS INSPECT LOCAL
YARD</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Declare They Never Saw Such a High Degree of
Efficiency in Handling Traffic Anywhere Else</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> Superintendent Taylor of the Virginian
Railway, and R. P. C. Sanderson, superintendent of motive power of the road,
were in the city yesterday on a tour of inspection of the local yard. Mr.
Taylor said that the Norfolk and Western Bluefield yards have a reputation for
efficiency and that he and Mr. Sanderson had come to this city to look them
over. The Telegraph representative told Mr. Taylor that he was seeing the
yard under the most adverse condition that have ever been present here, on
account of the severe storm. Mr. Taylor admitted that this was true and
said that under the conditions he had never seen such a high degree of
efficiency. He was borne out in this statement by Mr. Sanderson, who said
the local yard had a most efficient method of handling traffic and even the
severe storm of yesterday did not seem to affect the well trained men who have
made the local yard a success.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> When asked if they had visited the west end
yards the gentlemen said they had and were pleasantly surprised both as to the
equipment and the efficient way in which the trains are handled.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The gentlemen expected that they would find a
number of methods in use here which would be of service to them at
Princeton and other places along the Virginian.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Messrs. Taylor and Sanderson are only a few
of the foreign railroad superintendents who have visited the local yards at
various times and every time they come here they go away surprised at the modern
methods in use here and the excellent "corps d'esprit"
[<EM>sic</EM>] which exists among the local forces who make the yards a
success from a railroad standpoint.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[A<EM>rticle headers in that day's issue describe the
previous day's storm as being the "Worst Storm City Has Ever Seen." The
attached picture from the Va. Tech image base shows the traffic handled by the
Bluefield yard in 1910.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>