Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1901 — RAISED TRACKS SAVE TIME. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RAISED TRACKS SAVE TIME.

Elevation of Terminals Results in Quicker Schedules. Track elevation in Chicago has enabled the transportation companies to save from five to twenty minutes in the running time of both incoming and outgoing passenger trains, says the Tribune. When the agitation for elevated roadbeds was begun six years ago railroad experts did not give much attention to this advantage of the plan. The elimination of the grade crossing was the one object kept in view to the exclusion of other considerations. The extent *to which the various companies have been enabled to cut

down their running time since the elevation of their tracks has become a matter of wonderment to railroad officials. The Rock Island and Lake Shore, the first roads to elevate, have reaped the benefit of faster schedules. A study ot the time cards of the elevated and surface track railroads operating out of Chicago shows clearly the benefits of raised tracks. The Burlington, which now has an elevated roadway between Western avenue and the city limits, a distance of only four miles, is enabled to operate Its mail trains and other flyers, between Chicago nnd Aurora, a distance of thirty-nine miles, in forty-five minutes. The Rock Island, which has a longer stretch of elevation, runs its trains between Van Buren street station and Joliet, forty-one miles, in fifty minutes. The Illinois Central, with modern roadway, operates to Peotone, forty-two niiles from Twelfth street, at a rate of nearly a mile a minute.

BRINGS TOWNS NEARER.