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Clinch Valley Norfolk & Western District Line BY Alex Schust and Mason Cooper SC
Clinch Valley Norfolk & Western District Line BY Alex Schust and Mason Cooper
Softbound 218 pagesCopyright 2014
Table of Contents
Introduction iv
Chapter 1 - Constructing the Clinch Valley Line1
A Connection West 0 Preparing the Way 0 Constructing the Clinch Valley Division 0 Bridges 0 Structures 0 Branch Lines 0 Building Progress 0 Cost of Building the Clinch Valley Line 0 Clinch valley District 1916-1917 0 Clinch Valley Line Tunnels 0 Clinch Valley Bridges and Trestles
Chapter 2 - Bluefield (Graham) to Richlands37
Bluefield (Graham) 0 Furnace (Hockman) 0 St. Clair 0 Sam (Holbrook) 0 Bailey 0 Tip Top 0 Reep Siding 0 Wittens Mill 0 Five Oaks 0 Burks Garden 0 Tazewell 0 Gabe Siding 0 Pisgah 0 Youngs 0 Ogre Siding 0 Maxwell 0 Cliffield 0 Barwig Spur 0 Gillespie 0 Lumber Siding 0 Crusher Siding 0 Pounding Mill 0 Dry Fork Branch Junction 0 Cedar Bluff 0 Indian 0 Richlands 0 Continuing West
Chapter 3 - Doran to Norton79
Doran 0 Coal Creek Branch Junction 0 Raven 0 Excelsior Red Ash Coal Company 0 Radcliffe 0 Daw 0 Swords Creek 0 Kennedy Coal Corporation 0 Gardner 0 Lewis Creek Branch Junction 0 Oketta 0 Putnam (Shoffner) OHonaker Lumber Company Spur 0 Honaker 0 Finny (Coulwood) 0 Wards Siding 0 Johnsons Siding 0 Artrip 0 Cleveland 0 Carbo (Kiser) 0 Dumps Creek Branch Junction 0 Carterton 0 Castlewood 0 Boody (Fink) 0 St. Paul 0 West from St. Paul 0 Russell Creek Branch Junction 0 Virginia City 0 Dwina 0 Pine 0 Banner (Bannervane) 0 Little Tom Branch Junction 0 Marion Branch Junction 0 Coeburn 0 Big Tom's Creek Branch Junction 0 Greeno 0 Tacoma 0 Ramsey 0 Norton
Chapter 4 - Clinch Valley No. 1 Coal District Branch Lines133
Indian Creek Branch (Dry Fork Branch) 0 Big Creek Branch 0 Town Hill Branch 0 Town Hill Branch Extension 0 Coal Creek Branch 0 Lewis Creek Branch
Chapter 5 - Clinch Valley No. 2 and Tiller Coal Districts 173
Coal Operation CV-38 0 Russell Creek Branch 0 Russell Fork Branch/Caledonia Spur 0 Coal Operation CV-25 0 Little Tom Branch 0 Marion Branch 0 Big Tom's Creek Branch (Toms Creek) 0 Coal Operations Coeburn to Norton 0 Clinchfield Railroad Dumps Creek Branch 0 A New Dumps Creek Branch 0 Dumps Creek Branch 0 Tiller Spur
Chapter 6 - Passenger Service207
Establishing Passenger Service 0 Main Line Passenger Service 0 Branch Line Passenger Service 0 Mail Service
Index214
Introduction
The building of the Clinch Valley Line was a direct result of three factors. The first was the Norfolk & Western (N&W) Railroad's desire to expand into the southern Appalachian coalfields and build on the success it experienced in building the railroad to Pocahontas, Virginia. The second factor was the N&W's desire to have its own connection to the west, and not just be a bridge line between the north and south. The third factor was a concern about the stability of the railroad's connection at Bristol, Virginia with the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia (ETV&G) Railroad, after its repeated failed attempts to acquire the ETV&G.
Clinch Valley - Norfolk & Western District Line is not just about building the 99.7 mile railroad between Graham (Bluefield) and Norton, Virginia. The book is about decision making and risk taking. It is about success and failure, risk and reward, and it is about what was accomplished when the railroad was completed.
The book looks at the original route surveys, cost estimates, financing issues, and N&W contracting methods. The original objective was build the railroad and get it operational. About 15 years later the objective was to upgrade the railroad towards efficient operation. This required about 10 years of tunnel modernization and 20 years of bridge replacement.
The book also looks at the communities that came into existence because the railroad was built and the four major land and development companies that built Graham, Richlands, Coeburn and Norton. It also looks at the development of industry along the main line and the branch lines of the railroad.
This book only looks at the Clinch Valley Line as built and by the N&W. It does not go into the expansion of the railroad after the merger of the Norfolk & Western and the Southern. As of September 2014 the original N&W Clinch Valley Line and portions of Big Creek Branch and Dumps Creek Branch were still in service.
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