N&W in 1908 - Circuit rider

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Mmmm, trains running in circles.  Sounds like a good excuse for a model 
railroad. :)
Jerry Kay, Portsmouth, Virginia

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>Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 22:11:23 -0400

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>   Bluefield Daily Telegraph

>   January 18, 1908

>    

>                CIRCUIT RIDER ON RAILROAD

>                          ------

> Unique Transportation Arrangement Perfected on Big Sandy

>                     and Twelve Pole.

>                          ------

>       One of the most novel transportation

>   arrangements that has ever been witnessed in this

>   part of the country is now seen in the Big Sandy and

>   Twelve Pole valleys, traversed by the Norfolk &

>   Western Railway.  The two lines of this railway, one

>   sixty-eight miles in length, the other seventy-five,

>   traverse the Big Sandy and Twelve Pole valleys,

>   running on parallel lines through Wayne and Mingo

>   counties.  Up until the past week a local freight

>   train has been assigned to the accommodations of the

>   business of each of the two lines.  But after

>   business became slack a few weeks ago it

>   was determined to employ some means by which one of

>   these trains, neither of which more than met

>   operating expenses, might be cut off.  Finally the

>   problem was solved in this way:  The regular Big

>   Sandy local was discontinued, and the Twelve Pole

>   valley local was transformed into what is now known

>   as the "circuit rider."  This train now leaves

>   Kenova every morning at 7 o'clock, touches at all

>   business points on the old Twelve Pole valley line

>   between Kenova and Naugatuck, and returns down the

>   Big Sandy line by way of Warfield and Fort Gay,

>   arriving at Kenova late in the afternoon, the hour

>   being determined by the amount of traffic

>   encountered on the way.  Freight destined for Fort

>   Gay, twenty-five miles out of Kenova, is carried

>   round the circuit 118 miles.

>                          ------

>    

>   Gordon Hamilton

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