Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1912 — New Train -On Coal Road Losing Company $900 Per Month. [ARTICLE]

New Train -On Coal Road Losing Company $900 Per Month.

T,he new passenger train -on the Goal road is certainly some flyer. It* schedule time from Fair Oaks to Good land, about 22 miles, is one hour and forty-five minutes. It make very good connections south with the Milk train on the Monon, or rather Kite miilk train with it. But the running .time is so infernally slow that if one is in a hurry they had better walk. It is apparently run on a •dhedule on purpose that affords no aeoounodatlons to the people along iflie line wanting to make connections with other lines, and it,i,s said that the company desires to take this train off and substitute two mixed trains instead, and have petitions •at to do this at stations along the itae, hut no one is signing them. We understand the company •tatiims that the new train ip costing about $1,200 per month to operate, >«ad the passenger receipts are only from $8 to sl2 per day, thus being a losing proposition to the extent of about S9OO per month. It Is very evident that the train •annot long he continued on this Mowing, arid unless some different schedule is adopted 'that will afford better connections and an effort Is made to build up patronage, It will have to be taken off.