Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1883 — Railroad Items. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Items.

The Louisville, New Albany <fc Chicago road wifi this month receive four more first-class passenger engines. J. E. Reeves, master of transportation of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago road, has tendered his resignation, to take effect as soon as his successor can be appointed. The-annual meeting of the stockholders of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago road which will be held on the 12th of this month, in New York, promises some surprises in its results. Owing to the damaged and unsafe condition of the C. & I. Air Line bridge across the W abash at Delphi, trains only run as far as Pittsburg, and tickets will not be sold, and freight will not be billed, beyond that point. An official of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago road states that it will require thirty day of good weather to put the Chicago & Indianapolis Air-Line in shape to run trains over it at an ordinary speed. Much of the way, however, only additional gravel is needed, and a little surfacing up. On Wednesday the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad Company entered for record in the recorder’s office in Floyd county a mortgage for $1,000,000 to the Farmer’s Loan and Trust Company, New York, and W. M. Lewis, of New Albany, to. secure the payment of its first mortgage bonds to that amount. Also, a mortgage by the same company for $600,000, to the Kentucky and Indiana Car Trust Company, covering all the engines and cars of the L. N-A & C. company. Indianapolis Jour.