 In 1881 that railroad was completed to Lynchburg, and another railroad reached it through the Shenandoah Valley.Lynchburg had a telegraph, about 15,000 residents, and the beginnings of a streetcar system.Many citizens, believing their city crowded enough, did not join the boosters who wanted Lynchburg to become the junction of that valley line and what became the Norfolk and Western Railroad, so the junction was moved to Big Lick.