The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-15
THE NORTH MISSOURI RAILROAD.
Change OF Gaugo-Qutck WorI-Otbsr
Matters,

Ohenge OF Gaugo-Qutck WOrI-Other
From the Missouri Republican. A,,g,.st % 1877.
We learn that on Friday, the I'd of August the
North Missouri Railroad Company began the
change of its gauge from this city to Macon
City the junction Of its road with the Hannibal
and st. Joseph Railroad, the distance being one
hundred and seventy miles. On Friday and
Saturday the gauge was changed from st.
Charles to Macon, distance of one hundred
and fifty miles, and on Monday of this week
the gauge was changed from st. Charles to st.
Louis so that the running of trains was resumed
on Tuesday, making only three days that trains
were suspended TO effect change of gauge for
one hundred and seventy miles of road.
This change of gauge gives the North Mis-
souri road the tour feet eight and a half gauge
which is the same as that of the Hannibal and
st. Joseph road, the Iowa and Minnesota roads,
the Union Pacific roads, and the same as nearly
all roads east of us, and will enable the North
Missouri to carry both freights and passengers
to st. Joseph, Atchison, and Leavenworth
without change of cars, and to all points in
Iowa and Minnesota, and points reached by the
Union Pacific roads when their connections are
formed and also East when the railroad bridge
at St. Louis is built.
We have heard it suggested that, in anticpa-
tion OF the bridge, the Chicago, Alton and st.
Louis, the Terre Haute, Alton, and st. Louis,
ana other Eastern roads, together with the
North Missouri road, are considering whether it
will not be advisable to make a similar improve
ment to that at ST. Charles near the North Mis-
souri, depot on this side OF the river, whereby
freight and passengers can be transferred, 30
that passengers can take the cars on the st.
Louis side of the river and freights be loaded
from this side.
We learn that the total cost of the improve
fOr moi ftu
thousand dollars. 1t is the next best thing TO a
bridge, and would answer admirably. 1t would
in the winter be subject to Interruption when
ferry boats could not run in the ice. 1t seems
to us that it would be most desirable thing to
land and take passengers and treights from this
side of the river. 1t is great delay and annoy
ance, 1t seems to us, to have to unload and ferry
in wagons freights from and to ST. Louis, from
the Illinois shore, and we know from our per-
sonal experience that families and persons ar
irving and going East dread the omnibus ride
ana crossing of the river at st. Louis more than
the whole trip, and any improvement that will
overcome this will meet with favor from the
travelling and business public.
We are glad to learn that tack-laying is pro-
crossing towards Iowa, north of Macon. By
the first of September it is expected that twelve
miles of road will be in operation north OF
Macon, leaving only ffty-two miles more to COM
plete TO reach Iowa, upon which the grading is
about half done. 1t is intended to have the
North Missouri Road done to Iowa as soon as
the st. Louis and Cedar Rapids or the Iowa
will not be later than June of next year.
Track-laying will commence on the West
Branch OF the North Missouri Road by the first
of September, and will be completed to Bruns-
wick some time in October, distance OF forty
miles
The branch extending from Centralia to Co.
lumbia, IN Boone county, distance OF twenty.
two miles, will be completed about the first OF
September. Six miles of the track is laid,
and the contractors are pushing the work
along
By the first of November, or before, the North
Missouri management expect to have some
seyenty-fve miles OF new road to operate,
making total length of road of two hundred
and fOrty-four miles.
1t is believed that the completion Of the road
to Brunswick will nearly double the present
business of the road and that when connec-
ton can be formed with the Iowa roads that it
will greatly change its financial condition.
In looking over the whole field of st. Louis
railway connexions the effects upon this city
and the effects upon the proposed connection OF
the North Missouri Railroad on its own interests,
IL seems TO us that it is second in Importance to
NO road that connects with st. Louis, and that a
few wears will show it to be splendid paying
road 1t will take little time for this. 1t has
to complete its connections, and get business
flowing over it which will at once follow its
completion, when we predict that it will become
one of the most prosperous roads in the coun'
try. IT has our best wishes Tor its most abun'
dant success.