Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-10-28
IN EPIDEMIC
of IMPORTANT RAILRoAD RUMoRS
HAS BROKEN OUT.
A THROUGH LINEsIs ASSURED.
Many of the Rumors Cannot Be Cor
roborated-News Note Concerning
h Local Railroad Men and Other
Notes of interest In Brief.

An epidemic of very important rail-
road rumors has broken out in this
section of the country, but many OF
these rumors cannot be ~corroborated.
The general counsel of the Canton e
East Liverpool railroad, a projected
line, says that the B. & o. will build
the link and operate it as a short line
between Pittsburg, Canton and Chi
cago. The report states that the B. q
o. short line will cross the Ohio river
at East Liverpool, but this statement
makes the whole story appear ground
less. inasmuch as the b. & o. has no
line within forty-five miles of East
Liverpool, and a long, high summit
cut through by many deep ravines In
tervenes between the nearest point OF
the B. & 0. and the Ohio
river, beyond the limit of the
Panhandle. says the Post. The b.
& o. has just absorbed the Pfttsburg &
Western, and it is scarcely probable
that they propose to build a line across
the northeast corner Of Pennsylvania,
or through the mountainous Pan-Han-
die of West Virginia. The B. & o.
might extend the branch down the
CHARTERS creek from Washington, but
East Liverpool could not be reached,
as the Panhandle has all the avail
able right on the Pennsylvania side OF
the river.
Another story is to the effect that
-t4la., 49, anncy,Ironi 10 Or thu RnFaln
Rochester & Pittsburg, in connection
with the B. & O., will build a line from
New Castle to Butler via the Big Run
valley. If the Pennsylvania had such
a line connecting with its important
links at New Castle, the through
freight could be. handled via the West
Penn road from Butler Junction to New
Castle. Butler and Johnstown would
be almost twenty miles nearer to Pitts
burg by rail.
About eighty surveyors are in this
region at present, running lines
through the valleys, searching for fa-
vorable routes with easy grades. l.
is believed that some one OF the big
roads like the Wabash is working in
conjunction with the Wheeling & lake
Erie for an entrance into Plttsburg via
the Ohio river, or across the hills and
valleys from a point near Bergholtz,
and that the proposed new short line
will run direct from Pittsburg across
the Raccoon Creek region, and the Pan
Handle of West Virginia, via Bergholtz
and Sherodsville. This route would
be only about 276 miles between Pitts
burg and Toledo, against PSI by the p,
F., W. & c., and the new short link
of the Wabash would give a line only
about ATS miles between PittSburg and
Chicago, via Detroit. The arrangement
would also give the new Pittsburg road
a short line via Canton to Cleveland.
The connection between the Wabash,
the wheeling & Lake Erie and Toledo.
st. Louis & Kansas City railroad and
the Buffalo, Rochester & Plttsburs
railroad would be n OF the most i'm
portant aggregation of the age, as it
would create another great trunk line
between the East and West, and would
give the Reading railroad a splendid
chance to avail itself of its splendid
terminus at Philadelphia and New
York for through business between the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans
Track Superintendent Ingle Malone,
of the Fourth division, had a big force
of men at work Thursday at Mounds
vile putting down new switches.
Harry Wiedman, the chief clerk at
the Benwood yard office, is off duty
on account of sickness.
The water tanks Of the w. & L. e. at
West Newton have been elevated and
a steel support has been placed under
them.
Col. John T. Lane, of this city, rep-
resenting the B. & o. railroad, was i'll
Pittsburg Friday.