1908 - Arrange to Handle Freight

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Roanoke Times - April 16, 1908

ARRANGE TO HANDLE FREIGHT

Virginian Railway Making Ready For Coming Traffic

   The superintendent, roadmaster and foreman of the Virginian 
(Tidewater) railroad have been in Meherrin this week making 
arrangements for the handling of freight, etc., on their road at that 
place. As soon as it can conveniently be done a telegraph and freight 
station will be built there, but until that time the Virginian will 
dray all local freight to the Southern depot, the agent of the 
Southern looking after the matter. This will be a great convenience 
to the people. The officers state that by the first of next month 
they want to have a regular daily train from Meherrin to Norfolk. 
This train already runs to Victoria, fifteen miles east of Meherrin. 
It is expected to have the track laid to Meherrin inside of another 
week, the distance lacking now being only about one mile. The 
Virginian goes under the Southern railroad about one-half mile south 
of Meherrin.

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- Ron Davis, Roger Link