Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1904 — Monon’s Old Relic. [ARTICLE]

Monon’s Old Relic.

President MoDoel of the Monon has ordered the effioials at the Monon shops in Lafayette to prepare an odd relic for exhibition at the worlds fair. It is the first lathe ever used by the Monon, and has been in continuous service from the time the road was built until last week, when it was put out of commission to make room for a larger and more modern piece of machinery. When the shops of the New Albany & Salem railroad—now the Monon—were established by Jas. Brooks, the first, president of the company, at New Albany, a lathe that at the time was osnsidered a marvel in meohanism was installed. At that time the Monon extended only to Salem and was laid with flit bar iron imported from Eogland. A few years later the road was built through to Miohigan City and then known as the New Albany <fc Salem railway.