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Wilmington & Weldon R. R.
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| Wilmington Jany. 8th 1864 |
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| S. D. Wallace Esq. |
| Presdt. W&W R. R. Co. |
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| Sir |
| Your request that I will state in writing
my views about discontinuing one passenger train over this line is
herein submitted. |
| I would urge and should have long since
urged the discontinuance of one passenger train per day if it could
be done. It is simply impossible. The travel cannot be
taken by one Engine each way per day. The trains are now loaded to
their full capacity and we cannot carry more than one freight car on
each train and frequently none. |
| If the travel can be stopped the trains
may be diminished in number but not until then. This, it must be
remembered is the great southern line for mails and passengers and
will continue to be as while we hold the road clear of the enemy. |
| When troops are to go we push them on
either train excluding most but not all the other passengers -- say
all but one car load and they generally half sick or wounded soldiers. |
| Men going and returning from furlough
constitute a large portion of our travel. |
| If other roads should stop one train per
day our ??al travel would require of us a second or accommodation
train. |
| If we can do half the business and exclude
the other half then a train can be discontinued and not before. |
| I am respy. |
| Yr. obt. svt. |
| S. L. Fremont |
| Chief Eng. Supt |