Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1887 — RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.

The Fitchburg Kailroad Company is said to have secured a 1 no from Boston to the Hudson River by the purchase of the Troy and Boston and the Troy and Greenfield Boads and the Hoosac Tunnel Eeceiver Cooley, of the Wabash Railway, has appointed Richard J. Reese Purchasing Agent It is understood that M. Knight has been tendered the position of General Traffic Manager in the place of William Duncan. It is stated that the Grand Trunk Raiiroad will shortly have connection with Duluth. The Burlington Boad has during the paid year expended $500,000 in improvements on the Hannibal and St Joseph leased line. Bailroad interests at St. Louis have for some time been negotiating for the abolition of tolls on the bridge, in the hope of making that city the terminus of several eastbound lines. Joliet business men want the Santa Fe Railroad shops established there. There is a fight between the Zanesville and Ohio, the Baltimore and Ohio, and tlio Cincinnati and Mus i ingum Railroads over the right-of-way along the Zanesville Canal bank.