Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-11-14
The Iron Horse.

Nine hundred men are working OIL
the Detroit, Bay City q Alpena rail
road. The gangs working from Sa
BILE this way aud those from Tawa
towards Sable are striving TO pass thu
halfway point, one ahead of thu
other, and the work is probably being
done faster than on any other line il
the State, Mt the rate Of three-quar
tiers of a mile day. On account o
the bridge across Rifle river not be
ing completed as soon as the rest o.
the road, two passenger cars are ex'
pected within ten days to be used
from Sable to the Rife, and the other
two of the four now ready for the
company will 90 to Wells and run
from that point to the Rife, at which
place transfers of freight and passen-
gers will be made until such time as
the bridge will be finished. The run
ming of trains over the above sections
will commence on the 25th. The pas
senger cars designed for this end
of the route will come to Bay City by
rail, thence by Gen. Ayers steamer
Monastique to Tawas.-Bay City Tri-
bune.
Last Wednesday Gen. Alger, presi-
dent A. M. Henry, Attorney Milo
Eastman, Superintendent, and Charles
H. Ellis, chief Engineer, of the De-
troit, Bay City and Alpena Railroad,
came over the road from its junction
with the Michigan Central, for the
purpose of inspecting it. The party
walked from Wells about three miles
this way, the grading there not being
quite done. The remainder of the
distance to the Rifle River was tied
and rallied, and an engine carried the
party through. From the Rifle a
train carried them to Tawas, that part
of the road being all completed. The
gentlemen stopped over night at Ia
was, coming from there through on
Thursday. An engine brought the
party about 81 miles this side of Ia
was, that much being already rallied,
and the rest Of the way they came by
wagon.
Thursday afternoon the engineer
and superintendent returned to Tawas,
and Gen. Alger and Mr.. Henry went
to Harrisville on the tug Torrent.
A week from to-day the other end
of the road will be entirely completed,
and in three weeks the whole road
will be done, and passenger trains will
be running to this place. The bridge
across the Rife will not be completed
at that time, and transferring will
have to be done. The regular passen-
ger train will be put on this side of
the Rifle. 1t will consist of bag
gage car, n passenger coach, and a
drawing-room car, and it is claimed
by the managers of the road that these
cars will be as fine as the best cars on
any road in the State of Michigan.
The train is expected to reach Tawas
about week from to-day.
On the piece of road beyond the
Rifle river, until the completion of
the bridge, one of the small engines
which have been in use on the log
road, will be put, and probably a
smoking car will be made to do SER
vice as a passenger car for the time
being
There is bridge crossing the Rifle
close by where the railroad crosses, so
that transferring will be easily affected.
The managers have shown much
enterprise in pushing the road to such
a rapid completion.
The time on which trains will run
OH the new road will be as follows
A train will leave this place about
noon, reaching the Michigan Central
before three p. NJ, at which time the
trains north and south on that road
meet at Wells. The train will start
back Immediately after the Michigan
Central trains have passed, reaching
here about six p. NJ. That same night
the train will run back to Tawas, and
return to this place the next forenoon,
in time to start again at noon on the
through trip. 1t will thus be seen
that there will be one through train
per day each way, and two trains each
way every day between here and Ia
was. Besides this there will be ca
boose attached to the freight train for
the accommodation of passengers
Sable Saturday Night.