The Seaboard Air Line Railway company recently petitioned the Corporation Commission for permission to discontinue trains Nos. 41 and 44, each known as “Shoo-fly.” No. 41, going South, reaches Vass at 11 a.m., and No. 44, going North, at 2:10 p.m. The hearing has been set for some time in the near future.
Editor’s Note: A shoo-fly train was a slow, local train. The railroad would be petitioning to discontinue the trains because it wasn’t a profitable run.
From the front page of The Pilot, Vass, N.C., Friday, Aug. 13, 1926
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Seaboard Allowed to Discontinue Four Trains. . . Two Between Raleigh and Hamlet and Two Between Wilmington and Charlotte
Raleigh, Aug. 14—the Seaboard Airline Railway will be permitted to discontinue two trains, Nos. 31 and 34, between Wilmington and Charlotte, and two others, Nos. 41 and 44, between Raleigh and Hamlet, according to an order just handed down by the State Corporation Commission. The trains will be discontinued after August 29th.
At the request of the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, steps are being taken to increase the bus service between Raleigh and Charlotte, which will make connections with busses at Sanford from Aberdeen and Hamlet, so that the travel affected by the removal of the trains may be taken care of. Plans are also being made for bus express service between the points affected by the removal of these trains.
At present there is but one round-trip bus a day between Raleigh and Charlotte, but assurances have been received that this service will materially increase to take care of the traffic, both passenger and express, that will result from the removal of the trains, so that neither shippers nor passengers will be inconvenienced. The State Corporation Commission, through its bus division, is assisting the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce in arranging the additional bus transportation.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Aug. 14, 1926
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Edutor's Note: Two stories on railroad dropping a stop in Vass. The first one published on the 13th in The Pilot says the railroad would schedule hearings i the near future. The second one published on the 14th in the Concord Tribune says the decision has already been made.
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