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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>March 22,
1910</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>More Light at Depot</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> The Norfolk and Western is considering a plan
for putting a little more juice in the electric lights in the depot. How
it can be done without more drops is a job for their engineers, but some change
will be made. Men from the general superintendent's office were looking
over the situation last night and thought that if a little more light were
thrown on the people who use the depot, things would be better.</DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>New Turntable Nearly Finished</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> The Norfolk and Western force have nearly
finished the new turntable in the yard. The new one is about twenty-five
feet longer than the one which was displaced and is of the modern type. As
soon as the cement work sets, which will be by Wednesday, it is expected that it
will be used.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>According to the 1910 N&W Annual Report this new
turntable was an 85-foot turntable. The X1 and Y1 Mallets were delivered
in 1910, and Jeffries' book on the N&W lists the overall wheel base as 72'
10" and 83' 3", respectively, so the new turntable apparently was intended to
accommodate these new locomotives. The Y2 Mallets delivered starting in
1918, however, had an overall wheel base of 97' 3", meaning that with
regard to turntables, the plot thickened as the saying goes.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>