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Roanoke Times, Tuesday, January 22, 1907

RAILROAD NOTES

N&W Pushing Important Work.
Mr. Francis T. Brinkley, division freight agent of the Norfolk and
Western railway, was in Bristol Saturday.
Speaking of the improvements on the Norfolk and Western, Mr
Brinkley said that the company had made wonderful strides, but that
after all it had not been able to keep up with the enormous demands
upon its 1,000 miles of road. The company added to its rolling stock
last July and August fifty-five new locomotives . It has added five
more since the first of the year. It has let the contract for 1,000
new freight cars, and is building in its own shops at Roanoke 5,000
freight cars. It has also let the contract for twenty-five new
engines. As soon as the company has completed the 500 cars on which
it is now working in Roanoke, it will begin on the construction of an
additional 1,000.
In addition to all this work, the company is spending large sums
of money double-tracking, building new track and lowering the grades.
Much work of this kind is in progress between Roanoke and
Lynchburg, and at Lynchburg a cut-off of twenty-one miles is being
constructed in order to make speed by routing trains around the city.
In West Virginia much heavy work is being done in order to lower
grades, and double tracks are being constructed. Seven tunnels are to
be driven in West Virginia in order to get the kind of grade desired.
Altogether the Norfolk and Western company is doing an enormous
lot of work, and when it is completed the great system will have been
benefited wonderfully, and the company will be in much better shape
to take care of the increasing traffic - Bristol Courier.




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