Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1899 — A New Railroad Project. [ARTICLE]

A New Railroad Project.

But on an Old and Favorite Route. ' % The many times talked of and always hoped for east and west railroad is again- an early possibility. It is projected along that most promising line for a new railroad now unoccupied in Indiana, from Kendallville, Indiana, to Gilman, Illinois. There were tfro gentleman in town Tuesday who are driving over the route, studying its advantages and difficulties and sounding the people as to their desires for such a road. They are G. H. Tenney a capitalist and practical railroad builder of Boston, Mass., and J. M. Kinney, of Kendalville. The name of the proposed road is the Kendalville, Rochester, & Western. Its present proposed eastern terminus is Kendallville, Noble county, Indiana, and its western Gilman, 111. A road over this route would pass through a most excellent country and largely remote from competing lines. These gentlemen are at present only looking over the line, and finding out what the people think and desire. They state that if the prospects are favorable and the people want the road, it will be built. Nothing is to be asked for in the way of payment for preliminary expenses, right of way and the like, and nothing at all will be asked for until the road is built and in operation. If built it will be a standard guage, steam road, well built and well equipped. It is such a road as Rensselaer needs.