Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-10-07
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The Editor Of the penny Post, in his reply to
+" Sam IN CHI. a writer in the Norfolk Bencon,
goes somewhat Out e his way TO make The fol
lowing nusing attack the Virginia a. Ten
nesste i,al.rand.
The very worst road in the State" Perhaps
the writer has never seen the Virginia and Ton
nessee. where the curves are 81 sh ,rf that the
tail and front of the train frequently come 80
near. tn present the appearance Of an emo
nous Anaconda endea,orng 10 swall W itself,
and where train have been known 10 stall in
tunnel not five miles frnm the eastern terminus.
An .'ill constructed. rick -tty concern The
whtl, track will shortly b. laid with the heavy
raj VIII "a tine Company - putting down a. fat
- il ran This they have done without a,sis-
tauee iron the Stale which has treated it like
a >ie, mother from the beginning. lie phrase
''rckrity,' j. very tasty. certainly, and seems
tu he a favor 10 with the writer, for hc not only
employs II second time; but strengthens IT by
the application Of n second fern, "wnrmy" We
quote the whole sentence. "a specimen IT choice
phta,cnngy. n normy, ricketty thing, that
has pro- rcssed nj the rate of some two or three
m'le- ,cr.n This j. quite as fast "A, the Nr.
ginia aud Tennessee road has progressed in spite
"f The liberal appropriations of the Government,
aud the ~lUlH15 Which the people Of Richmond
doluded into giving It,"
We have beeA at some pains to examine into
the relativ, amount Of straight line aud curvature
on the Virginia & Tennessee Rail road' n full
report + winch may be found in House Deeu-
inent II Of the Session of 1852.
The rail road Is 2oi miles long OF this dis
lance 10 81 i00 are straight, and there are 10
IS IoO miles of large rndi, never less than li;2
feet There only 81 miles on the road Of a
radius less than 90 feet, rate very often used
on some of the bet roads in the United States.
The part Of the road nov in use lO6 miles, has
much more alton than the Western portion.
Tho schedule time of the mail train is FIVE hours
on l06 mil :, and il deduct IL minutes for 20
stappages on tl,t road, il will lac seen that the
train makes uniform speed i25 miles per hour.
The regularity of the arrival of the trains on
this al may challenge comparison with any
other The mail train has probably not been 3
inmates behind its time FIVE times in the last nine
mouths This does 10, indicate any serious diff
ficulty resulting from curvature nor can the
Post well infer ii, from the fact that passenger
car ha- never been injured aud serious acci-
dent has ever happened To passenger, except in
the of an unfortunate young ian who chose
To jump off of the train while moving at full speed.
II our memory serves the Central road has
been Il years reaching Staunton, l;}6 miles, md
part of thu, is temporary track across the
Blue Ridge.
The Va. & Tenn. rond was commenced five
years age last June. /, is four years and nine
months since the first rnde stack in the
ground. They ARE now using I06 miles aud will
open 30 miles more in few weeks. The grad
uation of the whole rond j. nearly completed.
So much for the information of the Post