Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1913 — CAR SEVEN MILES FROM LINE [ARTICLE]

CAR SEVEN MILES FROM LINE

Coaches Have Been Known to Wander Far, but This Is Believed to Be the Limit So Far.

The numbers and initials of cars sometimes become so blurred and indistinct that the road on whose line they are finds itself unable to tell who their proper owners are. Some time ago, on a Michigan road, a car had been lost track of completely, and the most diligent search failed to reveal Its whereabouts. A farmer finally volunteered the information to the lostcar agent that the car he was looking for was about "seven miles from the track back in the woods.” The agent, on Investigating the matter, found this to be true. The previous winter a temporary track seven miles long had been laid back in the woods from the main line to a lumber camp. Some of the contractors at the camp being in need of a comfortable kitchen, had appropriated a car for the purpose, removing the body from the trucks, which were then shoved in a ditch and covered with brush. In the spring when the temporary track was taken up, this car was overlooked, with the result that it was left stranded in the wood seven miles from the place it should have been.