Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1915 — Franco-Swiss Railroad Connection. [ARTICLE]

Franco-Swiss Railroad Connection.

A piece of engineering work which has an important bearing on interna tional railroad traffic Is the completion of the tunnel This will afford a long-desired connec tion from the East French railroads to the Swiss lines centering at BerneFrom here, transit is made by way of the Loetschberg line to the Simplon tunnel and to Italy. The length of the Moutier-Granges tunnel is somewhat over five miles. Work was commenced on November 6, 1911, being retarded by strikes in 1913 and by the recent mobilization, after which it was taken up again on September 30, 1914. Drilling work is now completed.— Scientific American.