Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1903 — Great Things Coming at Hammond. [ARTICLE]

Great Things Coming at Hammond.

According to the Hammond News, but few people have any idea of the magnitude of the improvements that the Monon intends to make on its recently acquired property in Hammond. The company has purchased a tract of land 634 feet wide and half a mile in length. This tract of land reaches from the Ridge road (lower stone road) clear to the Little Calumet river along (the company’s right of way. Some of the thingsjwhiohjofficials have said will be built however, are yard* with a capacity of six thousand freight cars, a huge re-pair-shop, where both locomotives and oars may be repaired, and a colossal round-house. This last structure will be double the capacity of the one which the Monon now has in Chicago. The Monon will also doubletrack its road-bed from the tie yards to the Grand Calumet, where with the Erie, it proposes to build a huge draw-bridge on modern engineering principles, Hammond will be made thfi. tergdiuu .Qf the Monon’s freight business, and will be its transfer'yards. All freight will be made up and transferred here, and just what this means few people realize. Big transfer engines will take freights from the yards to Chicago. Flinch Decks, the new and ' popular home game, at Fondigs.