N&W in 1903 -- Sleeping Car

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SLEEPER WILL GO UP THE TUG RIVER
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    Commencing May 24 the Norfolk and Western railway will put another train on its Tug River branch.  This will be a great help, as heretofore there has been one train daily, which made it a great inconvenience to everyone having business in the upper Tug River coalfield.  The trains for this division will now leave Welch immediately after the arrival of Nos. 4 and 22 in the morning and return in time to connect with No. 2 in the afternoon and then go back in the evening after the arrival of No. 1.  The sleeper of No. 1 will be carried on to Gary.

Bluefield Daily Telegraph
May 16, 1903

[A 1915 schedule shows this sleeper operated between Philadelphia and Gary.  I wonder how many other sleeping cars started in as large a city as Philadelphia and ended up in as small and remote place as Gary, WV?]

Gordon Hamilton
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