Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1906 — BETTER TRAIN SERVICE NEEDED [ARTICLE]

BETTER TRAIN SERVICE NEEDED

In some respects the Monon’s present passenger train service is something fierce, to use a slang expression. The night train does not stop at Shelby any more and many of our people who have wanted to take in some of the 3-1 excursions to St. Joe, Mich., have staid at home rather than be laid out all night at Shelby. It used to he that if one visiting Wheatfield or north connty points missed connections with the milk train at Shelby, they could get home on the ll:30p. m., train, bnt now they mnst lay over ail night there. The early train from Indianapolis does not stop at Rensselaer, and passengers from this place rnnßt change at Monon for the Louisville train or, if the Indianapolis train is late, wait for the milk train. Last Saturday mornipg there was nearly a dozen passengers from Indianapolis to Renskelaer, coming home from the State fair. The train was too late in reaching Monon to connect with the Louisville train, but the conductor would not stop at Rensselaer, saying it was against his orders, and the passengers had to wait there for the milk train.