Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1883 — Railroad Talk. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Talk.

A dispatch from Lafayette in in the Indianapolis Journal says that work on the L. N-A. & C. car shops will begin atonce. The rails connecting the two 'ends of the Chicago and Great Southern road were laid at 8 o’clock last Sunday evening. Had not the road been completed by 12 o’clock, that night the tax voted by Iroquois township, in Newton county, would have been forfeited by the rail-road company. Colonel Hussey and Mr. J. Kingston Lee are looking after the interests of the Rochester, Rensselaer & St Louis Railway, a new line proposed from Rochester, Ind., through Winamac to Gilman, 111. It is a branch of the Chicago & Atlantic Road, and is designed to give that road an outlet to St. Louis. The surveyors will be put on the line this week, Pulaski county having about raised the sum required for a preliminary survey. —“Winamac Republican.” The preliminary survey of the Rochester, Rensselaer & St. Louis railroad was begun Monday from Leiter’s Ford, some miles west of Rochester. Messrs. I. B. Hussey, of New York, and J. B.’ Boyle, of Winamac, were in town last Friday looking after the affairs cf the company, and expect to be here again within a few days. It is needless to remark that they will not object to receiving from Rensselaer some of “the sinews of war” needed in surveying and constructing the road. Rensselaer wants an East and West railroad, and “wantsit bad” enough to justify -our citizens in doing -anything, within the bounds of reason, to secure it.

Gilman, DI., April 3.—[Special.] A meeting of the Directors was held at* the Redfield Hotel, this place, to-day, and the capital stock of the Rochester State Line & Gilman Railroad was consolidated with the stock of the Rochester, Rensselaer & St. Louis Road. Work will be commenced on the new road as soon as the weather permits, and after the building of the line from Springfield to Litchfield it will form a through line from Niagra Falls to St. Louis. The line from Rochester, Indiana, will be the great value to this section of the country.—“ Ex.”