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<DIV>As a postscript to the posting below I should have pointed out that the
Pageton, WV, mentioned in the article as being on the Tug Fork branch of
the N&W was named for William Nelson Page of Virginian Railway fame as
stated in the following from Wikipedia:</DIV>
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<P><EM>Pageton was named for William Nelson Page (1854-1932) a civil
engineer and industrialist who lived in Ansted, where he managed
many iron, coal, and railroad enterprises. William Page was the first
president of The Virginian Railway Company (now a part of Norfolk
Southern).</EM></P>
<P><EM>William N. Page was a principal of the Page Coal and Coke Company, a coal
and coking company with another operation in Page in Fayette County. He
established the mining operation tipple and coking ovens at Pageton around 1907.
The colliery in Page, West Virginia was the Loup Creek Colliery Company and was
a completely separate entity.</EM></P>
<P><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon Hamilton</FONT></P></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:55
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> N&W in 1910--Mail
service</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>April 7,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>NEW MAIL SERVICE</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center>------</DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG>Inaugurated on Tug Fork Branch of Norfolk and
Western</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> The Norfolk and Western has inaugurated a
new mail service on the Tug Fork branch. Two mails a day now go to
Anawalt and this service is greatly appreciated. The people along the
Anawalt section now want an opportunity to get the train to lay over at
Pageton or Anawalt at night instead of at Gary as they figure in this way they
will be able to go to Welch or some other point and return the same day.
An effort will also be made to get a local freight service on the line.
There are eighteen or twenty mines on the Tug Fork branch and the coal
companies along the line feel that enough business goes to and from these
operations to warrant a local freight. It is likely that a petition will
be prepared asking for such an extension of the local freight service.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>If there were no local freight service on Tug Fork branch
how did these eighteen or so mines get the material for the tipples and
mine material such as rails, cars, etc? As far as that goes how did any
mines get started before the railroad reached the mine location?</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon Hamilton</FONT></DIV>
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