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- ↑ Poor’s Manual of the Railroads of The United States 1900, page 402-403.
- ↑ Poor’s Manual of the Railroad of the United States 1902, page 248.
- ↑ Poor’s Manual of the Railroads of the United States 1903, page 1533
- ↑ The Official Railway Guide, North America Freight Edition, 1905 page 538.
- ↑ Source is the 1914 West Virginia Public Service Commission Report, page 17.