Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1918 — LINK SWEDEN AND FINLAND [ARTICLE]

LINK SWEDEN AND FINLAND

Expected Connection Will_ Be Estab* . lished by Autumn of 1918— Plans Completed. Construction plans for linking up the railways of Sweden and Finland have been drawn up and it is expected that the connection will be established by the autumn of 1918. The bridge over the Tornea river, between Tornea and Haparanda, is to be a single-track bridge, but in view of the fact that there IS a difference of gauge between Swedish and Russian railways, two sets of rails will be laid on it, so that the bridge may be used by both Russian and Swedish rolling stock, though not simultaneously.