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Winchester & Western R R Trivia

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Winchester & Western R R Trivia
Posted by superbe on Monday, November 28, 2016 2:38 PM

This tid bit was in today's paper which appeared in the column entitled "Out Of The Past"

100 years ago

The work of grading along the right of way of the Winchester and Western Railroad, which will be built from this city to Wardensville, Hardy County, W.Va., has begun by a large force of men, who arrived yesterday at Chambersville, this county, and it was stated today that the work will be pushed along during the winter months with all possible speed so that the laying of the track can be started early in the spring.

The Lost City Lumber Co., which is financing the building of the new railroad, has leased a large building at Chambersville known as the Four-Mile House, and the workmen will be quartered there during the winter months.

Nov. 17, 1916

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THw W & W is still going strong but it no longer hauls lumber

Bob

 

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