The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-01
RAILROADS ALL AGREE THAT LAST
YEAR WAS CHAMPION RECORD BREAKER
Not Single Line Entering Richmond Has Missed
It's Full Share Of Prosperlty's Blessings and
All Expect that the New Year will Eclipse
All Former Records. Hundreds OF
Thousands Expended to Meet
the Demands.

tween Newport News and Norfolk and
/ Portsmouth, speed AMI comfort being the
! first consideration i'll her construction
! Tile freight traffic of the Chesapeake ana
| Ohio also shares this prosperity. for Mr.
] w. y. Sullivan, division freight agent,
| says:
! The general freight business on the
| line OF the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-
! way has been remarkably good for the
| past year. The increase in the coal bus
| mess has been something wonderful, and
! especially the export and coastwise bus
| mess through Newport News The eX-
! tensive improvements the Chesapeake and
F, Ohio has made at Newport News during
! the past year has put them in a posi-
! ton to enjoy an immense amount OF
! traffic that they were not in a position
| to handle heretofore and are now pre-
! pared to take care OF great volume Of
! export business through that port. The
f! fact that the Southern and Norfolk and
i Western have recently made arrange
! ments to export through Newport News
! to foreign ports will materially add TO
| the amount OF business handled through
! that port.
| The Chesapeake and Ohio has also
| arranged to run Il special stock train to
! take care of stock originating at various
| western points and destined to points
+: in Virginia and the Souta. These trains
have been scheduled to leave Covington,
Ky, every Thursday and Friday. making
+! the run to Richmond in about IS hours,
| and to Norfolk in about 30 hours. The
| extensive improvements now being made
| by the Chesapeake and Ohio in and
! around Richmond viii put tham in a posi-
! ton TO handle more eXpeditiously kich
| mond business as well as through trait
+; tic. The local business has been partic-
:; ularly heavy. In the midsummer some
| of the furnaces along the line closed
down. owing to the temporary overpro
duction OF pig iron, but now all furnaces
/ have been blown in and are operating to
+, their full capacity. The business as
preceding year.
The outlook for 1901 is exceedingly
bright, and the record breaking-records'
| bid 6air to be surpassed
NORFOLK AND WESTERN.
Mr.. c. H. Bosley District Passenger
Agent of the Norfolk and Western Rail
way, says:
Il am not prepared to furnish statis-
tics, but you may say that the passenger
traffic handled by the Norfolk and West
err Railway during the year now at its
/ close has been the greatest in the his
tory OF the road. To meet the situation
| it has been found necessary from time
to time during the year to put into ser
| vice additional trains here and there on
the road. The increase in our business
! from Richmond has been proportionate
with the increase a other points. which
we have been pleased to acknowledge in
the establishment of the new limited
train between this city and Norfolk
making two fast daily trains between
the two cities via the Norfolk and West
ern Railway. We enter upon the new
century with a great degree of satisfac-
ton and Just pride at the success we
have attained and with bright pros
! pect OF continued prosperity"
The business OF the Norfolk and
Western hallway is nourshinG and is
showing a steady increase in revenus
weekly" said Mr.. T. y. Meanley, com
, mercial agent of the Norfolk and West
ern. This. Of course. is due to the able
management at Roanoke. The principal
pig iron, coal, lumber, tobacco, grain and
grain products. The Virginia Iron, Coal
and Coke Company, of Bristol, Tenn, op-
crates two furnaces at Roanoke, one at
Buena Vista, one at Kadford, one at Pu-
laski, one at kayoulah. and one at Brs-
toll The Pulaski Iron Company has a
furnace in operation at Pulaski. and the
New River Mineral Company one at IVAN
!toe With these faca industries and
enormous through traffic We are moving
our transportation department is kept
strained to its fullest capacity to furnish
the necessary equipment
we are ilidhlllS daily improvements
on our roadbed. and l do not think it
will be very long before we will have
double track from Lynchburg TO Norfolk
We have one of the best roadbecis in this
| section OF the country on our Norfolk
Division, and We are making steady I'M
provements on our Western Division, and
also have q number of boX-cars and gon-
dolas under construction and an order
, has been placed with the Richmond Loco
| motive ard Machine Works for ten large
/ locomotives to be delivered June next
Il consider the outlook OF prosperity
for the Norfolk and Western Railway
exceedingly encouraging. and reflects much
credit on the present management
SEABOARD AIR LINE
The Seaboard Air Line has shown
most remarkably healthy growth in traf-
tic departments. and large contracts for
new equipment have been placed so that
the demands made upon the Florida and
West Indian Short Line" can be met
Said MIR. John Shelton Williams, prest-
dent of the Seaboard Air Line recently:
THE affairs of the Greater Seaboard AIR
Line are in a most satisfactory condition,
and the amount Of business being handled
is enormous.
The Seaboard. besides offering short
line between Florida, West Indian and
other southern points and points north
and east, reaches all of the great ship
ping centres along the South Atlantic
seaboard. Millions have been and are
now being expended in improvements, the
erection of terminals and maintaining the
high standard of the Seaboard system.
Fast through trains services for haste
freight and passenger traffic have been
esta blished. and the amount of business
beinng handled over the Seaboard System
has reached enormous proportions.
Extensive terminal improvements are