N&W in 1911--Hauls automobiles

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
July 6, 1911

THE GRAHAM DAILY NEWS
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Twelve Passenger Auto

    A twelve passenger automobile shipped from Racine, Wis., to Cleveland, Va., passed through here yesterday over the Norfolk and Western enroute to Cleveland.  The big car was consigned to Rufus Smith and will be used on the macadam road between Cleveland and Lebanon to haul passengers between the railroad station and the county seat.
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[Apparently someone spied the car in Bluefield, which means that it probably was  shipped on an open flat car.  Cleveland and Lebanon are in Russell County, and a trip of that day over the hilly terrain between the two towns could have been an adventure.  Macadam roads were named for a Scotsman, John McAdam who pioneered a road with three layers of angular aggregate (broken stones) over a sloped subgrade--a big improvement over dirt roads or those surfaced with round rocks.  Later when a bitumen binder was added to a macadam road, it was termed "tar macadam," or "tarmac" for short.]

Gordon Hamilton
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