N&W in 1909--Telegraph offices

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Fri Feb 13 21:16:28 EST 2009


North Fork, two words, as per 1904 Station List was HC.

Ken Miller

On Feb 13, 2009, at 7:41 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:


> The telegraph call for Cooper was MC. Does anyone know the old call

> for North Fork?

>

> Jim Blackstock

>

>

> At 08:26 PM 2/12/2009, you wrote:

>> Bluefield Daily Telegraph

>> March 17, 1909

>>

>> TWO MORE TELEGRAPH OFFICES TO BE CLOSED

>> ------

>> Were Among First to be Opened With Building of the Norfolk and

>> Western

>>

>> The Norfolk and Western railroad will, it is said, within the

>> next few days close two more telegraph and block offices on the

>> Pocahontas division, Cooper and Northfork. These offices were

>> among the first to be opened with the building of the line and the

>> announcement of their abandonment will, no doubt, come as a

>> surprise, especially to railroad men. North fork has been operated

>> for years as a terminal where yard crews were maintained for the

>> purpose of making up trains for the through crews and to do the

>> shifting for the mines. A number of men who are now located at

>> Northfork will be transferred to Bluefield after the change takes

>> effect and the former point in so far as the Norfolk and Western is

>> concerned will be little more than a way station on their road.

>> The absolute block system for passenger trains which, by the

>> way, was immediately put into effect after the big rear end

>> collision which happened to the World's Fair limited just east of

>> Welch some sixteen years ago in which several lives were lost has

>> apparently been superceded on the western general division by the

>> system which allows passenger trains to follow each other over some

>> portions of the road, as for instance, between this city and Graham

>> where what is called "hugging" each other is practiced.

>> The Norfolk and Western has a most enviable record in the

>> number of accidents to its passenger trains during the last dozen

>> years and it heard that the new order of things on the western

>> division proves effective as the old.

>> ------

>> [Does anyone have any details of the World's Fair limited accident

>> 1893? This fair was the Chicago World's Fair, aka World's

>> Columbian Exposition.]

>>

>> Gordon Hamilton




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