In 1902, competing railroads raced to reach the coal fields of southern West Virginia. The Chesapeake and Ohio and Deepwater-Tidewater Railway, known as the Virginian after 1907, both sought to be first to the rich coal deposits of the Slab Fork District. To get there, they had to tunnel through the mountain at Jenny Gap, and they began digging competing tunnels just two miles apart. The rivalry brought acts of sabotage, including moving survey stakes and violating right-of-way rules, followed by one of the hottest court cases in Raleigh County history. Chesapeake and Ohio won in county circuit court but lost when the state supreme court overturned the decision on appeal. The Virginian then stopped work on its own tunnel and laid track through the Chesapeake and Ohio tunnel after allowing Chesapeake and Ohio to remove its tracks. Relations later improved, and in 1914 the Virginian returned to its original tunnel. Today, CSX Transportation, the modern-day successor of Chesapeake and Ohio, and Norfolk-Southern Railway, which bought the Virginian in 1959, still ship millions of tons of West Virginia coal by railroad each year.