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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>April 13,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>MALLET ENGINES WILL ARRIVE NEXT
MONTH</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Six Cents an Hour Additional Pay Granted to the Men
Who Will Run Monsters</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> The new Mallet engines, about which there has
been so much talk and which have been so anxiously expected, are to arrive on
the Pocahontas division between the 1st and 15th of next month. The
engines of which there have been ten ordered will be put to work at once.
It is claimed for them that they will haul twice as much as the largest engines
which are now in use on the road [<EM>Class M2 4-8-0s</EM>] and anticipating
their arrival the Norfolk and Western has strengthened a large number of its
bridges over which the engines will have to pass. In many cases new
bridges have been built and the roadbed put in shape to accommodate the monsters
which are really two engines in one.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The engineers who will run them have had
their wage questions settled. In this connection the coming of the Mallet
engines was provided for, it being understood that six cents an hour additional
pay was granted to the men who run the monsters.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>The ten Mallets would have been the five X1 0-8-8-0 and
five Y1 2-8-8-2 Mallets, of which neither group was particularly
successful.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>