Editing Princeton, West Virginia (section)

====Tidewater Railway====
In Virginia, Page (and Rogers) formed another intrastate railroad, the new [[Tidewater Railway]], which was legally based in [[Staunton, Virginia|Staunton]], a city located along the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O). Notwithstanding its corporate location on the C&O, agents for the new Tidewater Railway quietly surveyed and secured rights-of-way many miles away from the C&O across southern Virginia, roughly paralleling the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W). With the help of Rogers' fortune, they were successful, even in the [[Roanoke, Virginia|City of Roanoke]], where the N&W had its corporate headquarters and major shops.

From Roanoke, the new line ran almost due east, missing major cities and towns, to reach [[Suffolk, Virginia|Suffolk]]. With the help of local leaders in Norfolk, (and more funds from Rogers), a route was obtained set which passed around the City of Norfolk (and the N&W) in a wide, 13-mile long circular path through rural [[Norfolk County, Virginia|Norfolk County]] to be headed almost due west again when it reached the site for a new coal pier on the harbor at Hampton Roads at [[Sewell's Point]].

By the time the leaders of the big railroads finally realized that the Deepwater and Tidewater railroads were related, the rights-of-way were secure, and the new competitor could not be blocked. In 1906, N&W president [[Lucius E. Johnson]] was brought to the Standard Oil building at [[26 Broadway]] in New York City by [[Andrew Carnegie]] to meet with one of Carnegie's old friends: Henry Huttleston Rogers. N&W corporate records only record that the meeting lasted only a few minutes. Thus, the leaders of the big railroads finally learned the source of William Nelson Page's deep pockets. Despite their collusion, there would be new player in their games.