Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1876 — Railroad News. [ARTICLE]

Railroad News.

Winhave new a from gtted’autiior‘J* w*®Mtigto«b**Ciacinn*ti A St. Louis Railroad Company now building aroad-fromßaWinoße to Chicago is proposing to adopt the line of the Indianapolis, Delphi A’ Chicago Railroad, from Indianapolis toChicago, a* a part of it* line. In looking over Ihe , map this company tad, without knowing any thtag about tta LD: A C. R. R., virtually seleoted tta tame route for ifo road. -' <-a They propose, if nsgotfations can be satisfactorily made to tata our ancoMpteiad line and fin W lb tad pay «< aU uMßltita If the arragrttapt* are masK w* understaod the uew ccmptaiy will pro* need this eeaatm wMbtta work end complete as muff offt' to-pnfotica-ble. The Washington, Cincinnati A St, ktii'kl w■;> son class narrow gsugffftM Alm W.'Wtofc .-wi/i/. •• -.■ Its construction will not militate against the briUfogAf tta proposed Chicago and South Atlantic Railroad to tta deep water harbor on the southeast Atlantic *eaboacd„ but will moot alluded to is the last named road to adopt (ha jame guage, and the a sou&. track fa* Chfoago to Indianapolis. Ail tta ..wmvow gauge roads yet conaiHMited have been sncceMfuL Their cost ia but little over half that of the’ common gauge, and the operating >md other expenee* are in about the same proportion. Their business capacity has been completely demonstrated, and ttair poWyrity is rapidly increasing, A narrow gauge road can be enataiMd where abroad gauge hmd would iaR. Thin cheap syatenv of roilroad ia peeuHariy adapted to our rugged mountains, and is the key to the and aa they pospoee oome this way worn aopoaribfo objection in giving them th* rfghtto build on our line. A new railroad line to Baltimore-would be* grand benefit to this country, andweliope, if *llis right, nothing will stand in tbo way ofoagotiation*. Enough money can be raised on the line to grade, bridge end tie, ready for the iron,' and with Ibis ateurance we will be likely to get the Ufaniicdlo OrortforftauAW th