N&W 1904

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WIDEMOUTH EXTENSION OPENED UP SUNDAY

First Train Passes Over Norfolk and Western's New Branch Line

The Widemouth extension of the Norfolk and Western was opened up for traffic on Sunday.  The first passenger train went over the line that day and several hundred people took the trip.  The train was in charge of Conductor Marion Jennings and Engineer Henry Shufflebarger.  Yesterday the Spring Coal Company, one of the operations on the new extension, was given three cars and they will commence to ship at once.

        -- Bluefield Daily Telegraph
            Tuesday, May 31, 1904

[The Widemouth extension was one of the branches off the now-dormant Bluestone Extension of the Pocahontas Division north (compass direction) of Matoka, WV.]

Gordon Hamilton
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