Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1913 — Penssy Trains May Travel Over Monon Tracks Soon. [ARTICLE]

Penssy Trains May Travel Over Monon Tracks Soon.

From official circles at Indianapolis comes the report that the Pennsylvania railroad has leased the Monon, from Indianapolis to Frankfort, Ind., and that with the beginning of the year all Louisville and Indianapolis business of the Pan Handle will pass over this line, arriving and departing from Logansport over the Vandalia via Frankfort. It is generally known that the lease of the Lake Erie & Western tracks by the Pan Handle, from Kokomo to Indianapolis, expires with the last day of December, 1913, and that this lease will not be renewed. The lease of the Monon, therefore, is natural, and gives a line equally as short as that between Kokomo and Indianapolis, and will take all business in and out of Logansport.via the Vandalia. This will likely mean the double tracking of the Vandalia at the earliest possible moment, between Logansport and Frankfort, and will tie the Pennsylvania lines proper and the Vandalia together in such a way as to mean a practical sameness.