Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1917 — Double-Tracking the Trans-Siberian. [ARTICLE]

Double-Tracking the Trans-Siberian.

News has been received in Tokyo reporting-the completion of the tracking of the Siberian railway. The news, says the Far East, still lacks official confirmation, but if it is well founded, it is bound to prove a welcome relief to the present congestion of traffic on that line. It recalls the fact that during the Russo-Japanese war the trans-Siberian was a one-rail road, the best the Russian engineers could do being the construction of frequent switches, so that trains could pass in either direction. And yet by Spartan regulations tfyey managed to feed munitlons for over five hundred thousand men over that “double strip of rust.”