1908 - N. & W. Abandons $2,000,000 Deal

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Roanoke Times - February 29, 1908

President Johnson Says Work on Pocahontas Division is Postponed

A decision was reached this week by the officials of the Norfolk &
Western Railroad to abandon the $2,000,000 of improvements, double
tracking and extensions of the line on the Pocahontas division of the
road. This information was conveyed in a letter received here
yesterday from President L. E. Johnson.
The matter had been seriously considered, and for a time it looked
very much as if the work would be begun at once. But, because of
certain facts which have been considered by the railroad officials,
however, it is deemed wisest by them to postpone for the present the
beginning of this work.

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- Ron Davis, Roger Link






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