Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1918 — Railroad Resume Operations After Three Day Tie-up [ARTICLE]

Railroad Resume Operations After Three Day Tie-up

The New York Central, the Pennsylvania lines, Rock Island Burlington, Northwestern, St. Pau Baltimore and Ohio, Soo lines ant other roads all began moving trains after a three day tie-up, Monday. In most instances officials believed that something like' normal passenger' schedules would be in effect in and out of Chicago. ■ For two days heavy gangs of snow shovelers have been engaged in the work of digging out. They have been aided by snow plows, backing the big drifts for a hundred miles out of the city. Frozen switches have presented one of the biggest problems to those who worked to clea? the lines.

The Monon started moving trains last aight and two of them arrived in Rensselaer during the early morning hours this Tuesday monh/r The Milk train arrived at about eleven o’clock this morning and it is now thought that the conditions will be somewhat like normal again, al? though it will probably be several days before the regular schedule is followed again.