The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-08-14
From the Pittsburgh Evening Chronicle.
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago R. &.
The Consolidat alton finally Consummated.

The gentlemen Composing the new
Board of Directors of the consolidated
Railroad are admirably qualified for The
important position they occupy. They
bring with them long experience in the
mana cement of railroads, and an init
mate knowledge of the capacities and ne
cessitfes of the vast region through which
the road runs. The responsibilities which
fall upon their shoulders are weighty, but
we have the utmost confidence that their
administration will prove satisfactory to
the public and to the stockholders.
We cannot refrain from expressing our
qualification in a. nouncing the selection
of Gen. VIM. Robinson, Jr., as member
Of the new Board. His connection with
our own Western road from its inception
to its successful completion is an enduring
monument to his high financial and adj
ministra;ive abilities. He has been not
inappropriately termed the .father of the
Ohio and Pennsylvania Road, and pow
that his Child, the object of long years of
toll and solicitude, has attained mature
proportions and linked its fortunes with
other corporations, it is eminently prop
er that Gen Robinson should have a
voice in its counseis and prominent po-
sition in its management.
The advantages which will accrue to
Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania from this
consolidation are too apparent to require
much argument The Pittsburgh, Fort
Wayne and Chicago railroad will extend
on the most direct and eligible route,
distance of 465 miles. The three roads
that compose the consolidated road, are
the Ohio and Pennsylvania road from
Pittsburgh to Crestline, Ohio, distance
Of 1877 miles; the Ohio and Indiana road,
from Crestline to Fort Wayne, Indiana,
distance of 13l miles; and the Fort
Wayne and Chicago road, from Fort
Wayne to Chicago, distance Of 147
miles All these roads are of uniform
gauge, a feet 10 inches, and 338 miles of
the 465 are completed, and in operation,
leaving 1877 miles of the Fort Wayne and
: Chicago road to be finished. The united
line occupies position rich in all the ele-
! ments of great local business, and in
! grades and alignment, and facilities fer
speed, safety and economy of operation,
| it is not excelled, if equaled, by any line
$ or corresponding interest in this country.
e Of the important points through which
: the line passes we may enumerate Bea-
yer, Rochester and New Brighton, in
0 Pennsylvania; Salem, Alliance, Canton,
!. Massillon, Wooster, Mansfield, Crestline,
n Bucyrus, Forest, Lima, Upper Sandusky,
: Delphos and Van Vert. in Ohio; and
o Fort Wayne, Columbia, Warsaw, Plym-
# outh, and Valparaiso, in Indiana; thirteen
: of which are county seats, are all i'm
/, portant and thriving towns, and respec-
# lively centers of trade for the portion of
country surrounding them, thus insuring
;, to the road an immense local business.
c The consolidated road is highly favor
: ed in its intersections, which are as fol-
It lows: The Cleveland and Pittsburgh road
e at Alliance, the Cleveland, GAINESVILLE and
r Cincinnati road at Orville, the Spring
: field, Mount Vernon and Pittsburgh road
!, at Lakeville, the Sandusky, Mansfield and
Y Newark road at Mansfield, the Cleveland,
;, Columbus and Cincinnati road, and Belle
l. fontaine and Indiana road, al Crestline,
J. the Mad River and Lake Erie road at For.
:, est, the Dayton and Michigan road at
: Lima, the Lake Erie, Wabash and st.
5. Louis road at Fort Wayne, the Cincinnati,
n Peru and Chicago road at Plymouth, and
l. the New Albany and Salem road, and the
h Joliet t-of of the Chicago and Rock
IS Island road, between Plymouth and the
Il State line of Indiana and Illinois.
5. The consummation of the consolidation
e ensures a unity of interest and policy in
e the operations of the entire line of rail-
It road from Philadelphia to Chicago, dis
It tance of 818 miles, There will be but
s one break of gauge on the whole line,
viz: at Pittsburgh, and all its practical IL
conveniences will be removed as soon as
$ the Allegheny bridge is completed, which
# will be at an early day.
e Chicago, it cannot be denied, is the
e great railroad center of the West. In
e the address to the stockholders, made in
b May last, it is remarked that it would be
a difficult to indicate two railroad terminl
d capable of developing more valuable bust
r ness relations with each other than Pitts
!? burgh and Chicago. and Philadelphia,
= from its position, will be sharer in the
mutual advantage.
J. The consolidation consummated, we
r shall look for an early completion of the
line and consequent results, the value and
e Importance of which will, we trust, prove
st greater than the most sanguine now an
: ticipate.
d Consistency.
J. The Locofoco Buchaniers have consid-
d cradle difficulty in sizing Col. Fremont s
snile' One week they affirm that he is