N&W in 1910--Autos and diners

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
August 16, 1910

IN CITY AND COALFIELD
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"Col. Tierney Buys Automobile"
    Col. L. K. Tierney, of Powhatan, has purchased a "Chalmers 40" which he will keep in this city for use here until the good roads planned in this section are completed.  The car is to be delivered by the first of September or else it will not be shipped this year.  The sale was made by the Mercer County Automobile Company.  Mr. Tierney's purchase shows what good roads will do for this section and is only another argument for good roads in Mercer and McDowell counties.  At the present rate of construction McDowell will shortly lead this county in the matter of roads unless the people of Mercer county get busy and get their talking plans to work.
[This item is included here to reveal the status in 1910 of what would eventually become the principle contributor to the demise of the local passenger trains.  An earlier article listed the seven or eight automobiles in Bluefield in late summer 1910 and their owners (often doctors).  Others articles were like the one above in that the article announced each new automobile in Bluefield and its purchaser.]
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Elegant Diners in Service
    The first of the new dining cars to pass through was in train No. 3 last night.  It is a steel bottom, three truck [three-axle truck?] car, fitted with electric lights and handsome in all its appointments.
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Gordon Hamilton
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