The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-07-17
PITTsBURGH To WHEELING

The New Road that Is 10 Connect
with the Hempfeld at Wash
ington, Pa. ~
Pittsburgh Evening Leader.
To-day the cars Of the Pittsburgh
Southern Railroad can run int this city
the last rail OF the Banksville division
having been laid on Saturday last. The
formal opening, however, will be post
poned a few days. "
Asthere is considerable misapprehen'
sion concerning the whereabouts Of this
road, its city terminus, etc., We will take
the trouble 10 explain the project, giving
resume OF Its history: 80.
The road was chartered in June OF last
year under the name Of the Pittsburgh
Castle Shannon & Washington Railroad
The similarity Of names confused II with
the Pittsburgh & Castle Shannon, and the
further fact that II was intended to be
ostensibyy continuation OF the Castle
Shannon Road and Of the same gauge,viz
three feet four inches; also, the tact that
Mr.. NJ. D. Hays was President OF both
companies, added to the confusion.
Work on the new road was begun at
Castle Shannon, six miles out, in July
1877, and by the winter twenty miles, TO
Muntown (twents.six miles from Pitts.
burph), had been graded, and by January,
Of This year, the track had reached Fin
leyville, Washington, fourteen miles
| from Castle Shannon. Things remained
In stalu quo through the spring months,
when Il WAS decided by the board OF d.
rectors Of the Pittsburgh, Castle Shan.
NON! & Washington railroad TO change
their name to the Pittsburgh Southern
railroad. At the same time 1t was also
determined 10 change the gauge OF the
new road to three feet, 40 as to be in con.
iormiiy with the narrow gauge system Of
railroads now being so rapidly extended
throughout the United States. The
change Of gauge necessitated new inlet
into Pittsburgh, and this was effected by
the construction OF four miles OF road
from Castle Shannon via Mt. Lebanon
cemetery, to Blacksyille, the southern
terminus Of the Little Sawmill.run K. &.
The sawmill.run R. R. Is controlled BY
the Economic society. and is standard
gauge road, three miles long, ending at
fem peranceville, and is an old institu-
lion. A third rail WA laid for the &c.
eommodation Of the cars OF the Pitts.
burrh Southern. This is the link, there
fore, which Wa com pleted on Saturday
and, which enables the narrow gauge
trains TO enter the city without having TO
90 up and. down an incline plane. Pas
seppers will 10 few days, therefore, 60
10 Temperanceyille to take TIE Pittsburgh
Southern trains for Castle Shannon. Ii.
brary, Finleyville, etc, instead Of, as here
toiore, going up the incline plane:
The Pittsburgh Southern road, from
the end Of their completed grade at Mum
town, Ia nov actively pushing the extern
sion Of their line by branch Of twelve
miles to Washington, Pa. The work was
let to John Swami, Of Allegheny City, and
III at gentleman will have it completed
by October /. This branch connects, In
Warrington borough, with the trains Of
The Washington aud Waynesburg rail-
road, twenty-eight miles long, now COM
pleted, extending into Greene county so
that trains will run through from this
city 10 neutrality-suspicious. miles
before winter sets in. In Washington
the road also connects with the B. 4 U.
R. R, or Hempfeld road, TO Wheeling-
twenty.four miles-thus giving Pitts
burgh shippers an additional western
outlet. ,-.-.'.l.. ID.
II addition to this, work Is in progress
On the main linesou,h from Muntown if
teen miles, several hundred men being at
work. The main line under contract ex'
tends through the villages Of Kammerer,
BentleysvilIe and Marlborough, on the
National road. South Of Hiilsborough
the work lie not yet under contract, but
the route 10 now being surveyed by way
OF Clarksyille, Carmichael and Mt. Nor
fis, Pa, to MorgantoWn, West Va, q dis
lance Of so miles from Pittsburgh, sub
scrip,ions that far being nearly compile
ted Tor the grading Of the road. Thence
thifty-seven: miles from MorgantoWn e
Grafton on the main line OF the B. 4 o
Railroad, has been surveyed on which the
subscriptions already reach over SlOO,
900, or nearly enough to construct The
road bed, etc. i,
1t can be thus seen that the pittsburgh
Southern Ia in great activity and thai
there remains but little doubt OIL, Its com
pletion into the heart oil West Virginia
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