Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1874 — Connections of the Chicago & South Atlantic Railroad [ARTICLE]

Connections of the Chicago & South Atlantic Railroad

Major Nicholas J. Vail in his | recently published proSectui of . the Chicago and South Atlantic railroad, says its connections when I it is completed, will be as follows: | >; At its Northern end it would, of I coui-fe, connect will, alb the r<ads now 'centering in Chicago, and j spreading like a huge spider's w< b over the entire Northwi st; and here . would gather the great volume of I spupiies to be poured in the lap of j the hungry South. Leaving Chicago, it crosses the “Joliet Cut-Off” a short distance beyond the Indiana State line; the Toledo, Peoria A I Warsaw, near Reynolds; ami the ■Toledo, W abash A Western, at Delphi, Indiana. Reaching Indi--1 anapolis in a distance of from 40 to i 43 miles less than any existing ' route, it would connect here with j roads to Louisville, Cmcimiati, and all paiinsmy iK^Dhin riyer J i.and/4n=j Southern Ohio and Indiana—iiialting, Louisville 43 miles nearer to Chicago than at present. At G re-eusLm-g-,- with Cin c iirmrt UKLa ■ f.iyctte Railroad male ing- (list:.ttce j ■ to Ci'icinaati only 265 miles, or 40 : -miles shorter than any existing ■ ' route. (b'c'S'ng the Oiiio Mis ’ ■ stssippi Railroad w est of Delaware, ! i Indiana. South of this the c imlry ! to the Ohio river is entirely. desti- ; 1 > lute of any railroads, and will prove ; . a rich feeder to this one, especially ; i in shipping produce to the South. ! . A short distance south of the Ohio the road crosses the L-'nisvdle A Cincinnati Railroad, while 'it Lexington, by one route, and at Frank- , i orvl and*N ieh oi a> v 11le bvt he oiher, Idfestu ukl co mi ec t -with t li-eLouisvide & Lexingt ii Railroad; and the Kentucky Centra! Railroad, extending to Cineinn iti with br.-gicli from Paris io Maysville, on the Ohio, aiid also the Lexington d" p,i<r Sandy, —tmw—completed to MotifV. ’ Stirling, Kentucky. At Richmond • and London by the one route, and ! at, Lowtis and I*hie Hill byLtlre.. j other, conneeuon would be made with the Louisville <fc Knoxville I Brandi of the L. N., it G. S. It. It., ■giving shoi-1 atnTcTiea |Leoniiininica • lion with the Southeastern States /To Louisville A St. Lours, while.the same would be secured al Niehol"asvtil'‘ or Lexington TTr Cincinnati. At Knoxville, by Hie Blue Ridge ■ route, and Morris! ov.liy by the ! Spartanburg route, connection 1 won Id be made with >be East Tennessec. \ irginia A<» corgi a Rail i oad for ail points in East Tennessee j and on one hand, ami’ Toi r Chattanooga,Dalton, and ail points in Western Georgia on the other. .The eomieclioijs south < t Knoxville, . on the Blue Ridge route, have al--1 , a ready beyn ably Explained bv Gen. > Harrison, to Whose-descriptions of r them In aw refer yon. The cohnec'ions on the Spartanburg route ■would be at Asheville with the; Western North Carolina Railroad, ! and the Wilmington; Charlotte & ! Rtilherfoid Railroad leading to Raleigh, Buaulord and Wilmington, and connecting with ail the roads 4in North Cwfolhhi. At Simrtenburg I 10 I with the Atlanta A Richmond Railroad, and at Columbia Avith the j Greenville A Columbia Railroad, the Charlotte A South Carolina Railroad, th? M ilmington A -Man- , Chester Railroad, and the Columbia . A Augusta Railroad connecting at ; Augusta with the various roads ex- • tending to Central and Southeastern | Georgia. If the shortest practicable route should be adopted it would therefore make the distance from Char'eslOQ to Chicago (via Asheville) 786 “ “ Cincinnati (via Lex’l’u; 594 “ “ Louisville (via Loudon; 577 “ “ St,. Louis- via Louisville; 851 Tints making Louisville and St. Louis 205 miles, and Cincinnati and Chicago 300 miles nearer to Charleston, Port Royal and Savannah, than by any existing all raih route; and all these points over 1000 miles nearer than by the routes generally adopt ;d for the carrying of heavy freight. 7, .7.