Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1889 — News and Notions About the “Three I” Railway. [ARTICLE]

News and Notions About the “Three I” Railway.

Chicago Inter-Ocean-The Indiana, Illinois and lowa Railroad Company have just completed arrangements whereby Chicago will have anew belt liue. The dine will be on an average of sixty miles from the center of the city. At present it extends from Streator, 111., to New Buffalo, Mich., but the probabilities are that the company will build from Streator to the west coast of Lake~ Michigan by next Spring. A close traffic arrangement has been made for the use of a certain portion of the Chicago and Indiana Coal Company’s road from a point near W7heatfield, Ind., to LaCrosse, Ind. From that point to New Buffalo they have leased the Chicago & West Michigan road, thereby tapping every eastern railroad entering Chicago. On the west at present, they strike the Alton, the Santa Fe, the Burlington, and a branch of the Rock Island. It is possible that the latter road will use the Three XT’s for an eastern outlet instead of the Kankakee and Seneca and Big Four, as at present, in case the Rock Island does not go into the Vanderbilt scheme. The talk of using the three I.’s as a connecting link between the Santa Fo and the Baltimore and Ohio has been revived by this deal, as this would prove a powerful rival to the Vanderbilt combine. Division and general headquarters for the new line are to he located at Kankakee and the projected extension from Knox. Ind . to South Rend will probably he abandoned.