Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1913-02-13
News of the Railroads.

Ii is reported that the new union station
at Shenandoah Junction will positively be
constructed during the coming spring and
summer, the Norfolk & Western and Bal
timore & Ohio Railroads having finally
agreed upon all the details. The depot
will be built by the Norfolk & Western
Railway, and the contract has been LET to
the Pettijohn Company. of Lynchburg,
Va, the firm that built the handsome new
station at Shepherdstown. The station
will be two stories high, the lower part
to be on a level with the B. & o. tracks
and the upper part adjacent to the N. &
w. Ii is to be built in the angle on the
north side OF the B. & o. just west of the
N. & w. bridge, very eligible and de-
slrable location, along the public road.
The building is to be equipped with mod
ern conveniences and will have ample
room for the work ofthe employees. An
elevator will convey baggage from one
level to the other. The B. & o. will
construct subway for the use OF its pas
sengers, so that they will not be required
TO cross the tracks going TO and from
trains on the opposite side from the de-
pot.
In connection with the contemplated
Improvements at the Junction it is said
that the Norfolk & Western will raise its
bridge over the B. & o. by about two
feet. This is by order OF the Interstate
Commerce Commission, to which COM
plant had been made that humber of
B. & o. train men had been killed there
because there was not sufficient clear
ance under the bridge.
We understand that the Norfolk &
Western Railway, which has been max
ing record for building new stations
alorg its lines, has also awarded contracts
to the Pettijohn Company for the erection
of handsome depots at Charles Town and
Boyce, which will be constructed the
coming summer. Ground was broken
for the depot at Boyce yesterday.
Edward B. Spedden. wro has been
agent for the Norfolk & Western Railway
at Shepherdstown for the past ten years,
has resigned his place here to accept
position with the company at Winston
Salem, N. c. He expects to leave here
some time next week, and his family will
follow about the middle OF March. Our
people will be sorry TO have Mr.. Sped
den and his excellent family leave Shep-
herdstown, where they have so many
warm friends and where they are so high
ly esteemed. He has been an efficient
and popular railroad man, and no one
could have been more accommodating to
the people than he. His record with the
company during his ten years here has
been without flaw, and we can say The
same in regard to his relations with the
public. He regrets to leave his position
and his friends here, but he is seeking a
mider climate and also has the prospect
OF better opportunities for himself and his
family in a larger city. Winston Salem
is thriving, progressive little city, the
center of great tobacco factories, and we
hope that he and his family may find
congenial home there. Mr. Spedden will
be able TO get his chewing tobacco cheap
there, anyhow.
q. H. Grubbs, who has been assistant
agent at the N. & w. passenger station
here for some months past, has been
obliged to return to his home at Walnut
Cove, N. c., because OF long-continued
attack of rheumatism. He is reported 10
be getting better. c. c. Henderson, of
Waynesboro, Va, has been filling his
place here.
The locomotive firemen on "a railroads
in the eastern part of the country have
voted TO strike unless their demands for
higher wages and other concessions are
mel