Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1886 — THE MONON ROUTE, [ARTICLE]

THE MONON ROUTE,

Chicago Inter Ocean. tr- ~ Mr. William Dowd, tfye President of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Road, and a party of friends who have been making a tour Of that road, have returned to the East greatly delighted with the trip and the improvements made of late. The track and the equipment are now in excellent condition, Most of the track is laid with steel rails. While in the city, Mr. Dowd contracted for sufficient steel rails to replace what iron rails there are at present, before the end of the year. The new branch between Orleans and French Lick Springs was completed yesterday, and the first train run over it.