Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — INDIANA’S NEW ROAD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INDIANA’S NEW ROAD.

Electric Sure to Connect Several llooelct Town* with Chicago. The Chicago and Central Indian!. Electric Railway Company recently placed an order for 500 miles of steel rails to be used in the construction of their roads, this being the largest single order for steel placed for years. They also placed the order for a 500horse power compound engine, to be used in the car works to be built at Noblesville, where all the cars unci equipments will be manufactured and repaired. The full maguitudij and importance of this proposed system of roads can only bo comprehended by a careful study qf the accompanying map of the roads to ;b«0 constructed and operated by tills cotnpany. It will be observed that theyQjs to be a double tiack irbtn Itfdltftiiifrqlli' to Chicago via NoblesVllle, Frtfnkforl and Lafayette, Ind. At Noblesville there will be erected largo, carworks, the main building of./which will be constructed of brick, bo sixty feet In width and 1,000 feet in length. In these shops will be manufactured and repaired the cars, machinery and appliances for the equipment and operation of the entire system. From Noblesville single track lines will be constructed in such a manner as to bring the entire gas field Into close und direct connection with the main

Knes and Chicago; thus the great Indiana gas field will have direct ahd cheap transit for both passen gets and freight to and from Chicago. The roads will be equipped for both freight and passenger traffic; the freight trains, however, will be operated as much as possible after 9 o’clock at night, so as to not interfere with the operation of passenger trains.

CHICAGO AND CENTRAL INDIANA ELECTRIC RAILWAY.