Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1902 — RAILROADS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RAILROADS

Tension systems have been established on the North British and Caledonian roads. Three coaches for the Chilian government are being built at the Pullman works. The Southern Pacific has made an appropriation for an exhibit at the St. Louis world’s fair. , The Illinois Central road has finished double tracking the 200 miles of its line between Chicago and Effingham, 111. The Rock Island Railroad will probably build a cut-off ninety miles long from Fairbury, Neb., to Herrington, Kan. C. 0. Oraigie has been appointed traveling passenger agent for the Grand Trunk road, vice Benjamin Flether, deceased. Officials of the St. Paul road have practically determined to reduce the price of upper berths in sleeping cars by 25 per cent over the entire system. Warren 1. Lynch, general passenger agent of the Big Four route, intends to develop the summer resorts along the recently acquired Cincinnati Northers road. . The Minnesota House of Representatives has appropriated $25,000 to pay expenses of the contest of the State of Minnesota against the Northern Securities Company. That part of the Northern Connecting Railway system from Plattsburg, Mo., south to Kansas City, a distance of fortyone miles, has been sold by the Burlington to the Rock Island.