Virginian in 1908 -- Branch line-- Bluestone Dam

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Tue Aug 12 07:36:37 EDT 2008




What is your name and when will you have the K&M book for sale?

Jim Kehn


In a message dated 8/12/2008 7:00:19 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

Actually the citizen of Hinton, WV was correct. The Virginian originally
had plans to go through Hinton. I have just finished writing a book on the
Kanawha & Michigan and ran across an article in the inception of the K&M on the
VGN who also wanted to connect to the K&M route. One of the big financial
panics came along and the VGN decided to move to its present trackage. It had
plans to go through Summers, Greenbrier and Monroe Counties. A Charleston
newspaper reported on December 23, 1913 that the VGN May take over the K&M and
oppose the New River Dam. In a letter to T.N. Reed,of Hinton, Vice
President Dupuy of the VGN, says:

The VHN Railway does most assuredly expect to build its line down New River
from Rich Creek to and beyond Hinton and with this fixed purpose in view it
causes us the greatest concern to think that the public service commission of
WV may authorize a high dam on that part of the New River, which, if built
will seriously interfere with the grade line of the railway.

I am not now in position to state when we will commence the construction of
this portion of our line, because it is dependent upon a number of
circumstances and negotiations, some of which are going forward at this time; but I can
state with the fullest confidence that the VGN railway looks forward to
building this line in the near future, and considers it a very, very important
part of its general scheme of usefulness to its own stockholders and to the
state of WV. In conclusion, I sincerely hope that it will be you pleasure to
aid us in preventing such a high dam being built on New River as will interfere
with our railroads construction."

The Bluestone Dam was built which probably stopped any VGN railway from
utilizing this route.

On another VGN matter--- What do you think of the following:

While a connection to the former K&M railway (NYC) did not occur until 1931
with the building of the Deepwater Bridge, it brought into being the longing
of H.H. Rogers of the VGN who first expressed an interest in 1913. If this
bridge had been built earlier perhaps the VGN would have lasted longer than
1959? Any comments.





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