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- ↑ "Acts and Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of South - Regular Session of 1908". 1908. pp. 1467–1468.
- ↑ Wikipedia, WikiProject Trains, ICC valuations, Due West Railway
- ↑ Proceedings, American Philosophical Society, Volume 116, November 5, 1972
- ↑ Wr
- ↑ "Railway Gazette (Railway Age, Volume 43)". October 18, 1907. p. 471.