1958 - Conductor Makes Final Trip to Norton

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Roanoke Times - March 4, 1958

BLUEFIELD, March 3 (Special) - The Rev. T. L. Young, popular N&W
Railway conductor, retired today after 56 years and three million
miles of travel. he made his final run down the picturesque Clinch
Valley to Norton Friday with Mont Brannuf as his brakeman and H. W.
Davidson as engineer. Many of the many intimate friends he knows
along the valley realized that it was his final run and greeted him
as they local wound its leisurely way through Tazewell, Richlands,
Honaker, Cleveland, St. Paul, Coeburn and Norton and other points yesterday.
Young has been an ordained minister in the Church of God for a
half century. He has frequently taken furloughs to do evangelistic
work and now plans to devote more time to religious work.
A native of Tazewell, all of Young's railroad service has been on
the N&W's Pocahontas Division. He was the well-known "captain" on the
local run between Williamson and Bluefield for many years before that
train was abandoned two years ago when he took his final run through
his home town of Tazewell.

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- Ron Davis, Roger Link




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