Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1919 — TRAFFIC ON MONON IS HEAVIEST IN ALL HISTORY. [ARTICLE]

TRAFFIC ON MONON IS HEAVIEST IN ALL HISTORY.

Traffic on the Monon railroad is the heaviest in' the road’s history, according to the officials at Lafayette. ' Every available locomotive is in use and new freight crews are being •pressed intp service. Last Tuesday thirty-one engines were sent out of the roundhouse at Lafayette to handle trains leaving that City. The railroad handled on that day 1,793 loaded cars and 585 empties, compared with 1,377 loaded cars and 960 empties on the corresponding day in 1918. With two fewer (trains than last year more cars were handled. Every station along the line reports increased business. The Monon has practically all its mileage in Indiana, running from Louisville to Chicago with a branch at Monon running to Michigan City.