Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1917 — ARCTIC ROAD IS COMPLETED [ARTICLE]

ARCTIC ROAD IS COMPLETED

Trains Have Been Run Over Murman Railroad to Snow-Clad and Ice- , Bound Regions of Far North. Russia’s arctic railroad, known as the Murman railroad. Is now completed, ami the first trains have been run over it to the Murman coast, In the snow-clad and iCe»bound regions of Russia's far North. The length of the linefrom Petrograd to Alexandrovsk, the northern terminal, is 930 miles. The road follows the main line railroad from Petrograd to Perm as far as Zvanka. 73 miles east df Petrograd, where it turns north to Soroka and Kem, both ports on the White sea. Thence it continues northwestward via Kandalaksha; at the most westerly point of th# Whiteto Kola, and Alexandrovsk.