Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1915 — SPLENDID STRETCH OF RAILROAD TRACK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SPLENDID STRETCH OF RAILROAD TRACK

The photograph shows the Twentieth Century? Limited on the first leg of its twenty-hour flight from New York to Chicago. The photo was made on the six-track section of the line near Riverdale on the Hudson division. It shows a type of what Is claimed to

be the perfect modern track construction, rock ballast, electric automatic signals, electric cables for the transmission of power and third rail for operation of trains. The train is hauled by the latest type of electric locomotive.