The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-02-17
The Connections

Very few Of our readers are acquainted with
the important connections for the Shenandoah
Valley Railroad Company when it is com
pleted to an intersection with the Atlantic
Mississippi & Ohio road. 1t will be seen from
the following statement taken from the Phila-
delphia North american, that the management
OF the Shenandoah Valley road were fully ac-
quainted with the advantages to their road to
be acquired in the purchase of the Atlantic,
Mississippi g. Ohio road, and that the Shenan-
doah Valley will truly become the trunk line
OF very great Importance to the Valley of
Virginia, as well as intercommunication be-
tween the North and South The North
american says:
The upward tendency of Reading and Jer-
sey Central later in the day was partly eX
planned by the circulation of reports that those
two roads, connecting with the Shenandoah
Valley at Harrisburg, the latter with its new
purchase at Big Lick and with the Louisville
and Nashville by completing the Virginia and
Kentucky railroad, or using the East Tennes-
see, Virginia and Georgia to Chattanooga, will
thus form great trunk line from New Or
leans and Marble to New York. The Louis
vile and Nashvilles leased or controlled
branches afford Communication with Memphis.
st. Louis Selma, Montgomery PensacC a.
Mobile and New Orleans. They include the
Memphis line, the Nashville and Decatur, the
South and North Alabama the Nashville and
Chattanooga, the Mobile and Montgomery, the
New Orleans and Mobile, the Selma and
Montgomery, the Pensacola and Selma and
the st. Louis and Southeastern railroads, with
several little feeders in Kentucky, Tennessee
and Florida, which will probably be so con-
nected as to develop some fine counties in all
those States hitherto without facilities. The
Western and Atlantic to Atlanta, the Georgia
to Augusta and the Georgia Central to Sa-
vannah, also operate their lines in close and
friendly connection with the Louisville and
Nashville, so that the system of railroads
which thus secures an excellent metropolitan
outlet is seen to extend its branches literally
over the whole South, east of the Mississippi
Nor can it be pronounced less fortunate for
Philadelphia than for New York. To say
nothing of the advantages Philadelphia will
undoubtedly derive from an immense improve
ment in the business of the Reading and the
Shenandoah Valley roads, a large part of the
through trade of the trunk line will naturally
flow into this city from Harrisonburg when
busy times put too heavy pressure on the
Reading and New Jersey Central for them to
accommodate in the direction of New York.
So that Philadelphia is deeply interested in the
success OF the new arrangement. The Shenan-
doah Valley Construction Company will now
strain every nerve to complete the road to
their Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio junction
at Big Lick by the list OF May, if the weather
permits. Their acquisition east of Big Lick
will likewise prove of great value in relieving
the pressure Of through business by carrying
some of it to Norfolk, especially the cotton
trade, and that growing and prosperous Vir-
ginia city will have no reason to regret the
turn affairs have taken.