The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-11-29
Yards and Shops OF the
w. & L. e.
IN THE NEAR FUTURE
At Least Plans Are Being
Drawn to That Effect-.Na-
varre Destined to Become
Great Railroad Center.
Massillofl,, 9 November ~.

Massilloh,5 November 27.
Plans are now in the course OF
preparation in the Office of the chief
engineer of the Wheeling & Lake Erie
railway at Cleveland for an immense
yard and repair shop to be located al
Navarro. The yards will be the largest
and best equipped in this vicinity and
the shop buildings will be of the mos
substantial character. ~
The plans have not yet progressed
sufficiently to give detailed account
of the undertaking, but it is under
stood from reliable sources of informa-
tion that work will begin in the early
spring and be rushed to completion in
order that the new yards may be
! ready for use by the time the, new
Pittsburg extension Is completed,
which, 1t Is contemplated, will be fin
ished and ready for trains about that
time.
Some months previous to the alb
sorption Of the w. & L. e. by the
Wabash interests and the ascendency
of Joseph Ramsey to the presidency OF
the line, plans were prepared and in
the hands of the officials of the con-
struction department for a new brick
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lumbia yards, just west of here.
Large extensions of freight tracks were
also planned at the same point and the
material had been ordered for these
improvements. In fact, up to the time
of the purchase of the w. & l.. e. by
the Wabash 1t seemed to be the inten-
ton to make the division terminal at
Columbia for all time to come, but
with the acquisition of the c. c. & s.
railway and the projected Pittsburg
extension the matter took on another
phase, which stole away the feasibility
of the plan to build the new yards
here. With these changes came the
order countermanding the orders for
constructing the new yards and shops
at this point and the later determina-
tions by the officials, to build at Ma
vaTre. Plans were consequently or
dered prepared for shop buildings OF
sufficient. size to consolidate the shops,
both at Columbia and at Canton.
| When the new shops are erected at
Navarro and the yards. completed, d.
vision terminals will be established
thes, from which trains will run to
Toledo and Huron and on west and to
Pittsburg, Stenbenville and Wheeling
on the east. A division terminal will
also be established for the G. G. G. g.
railway at Navarro from which point
two divisions will be established, one
extending from Navarro to Cleveland
while the other win extend from Ma
varre to GAINESVILLE.
The change will cause railroad men
on the entire Wabash system to move
to Navarro and will add greatly to the
population of that place.
A prominent railroad man, who de
sires his name withheld for business
reasons, in speaking OF the matter tt
a Times reporter to-day, said:
There is no question but that plani
are now In the course Of preparation
for the new yards and shops at Ma
varre and all the train crews will b.
laying over there In year from thil
date"
i The plans to build new yard har'
We're abandoned Immediately afts
President Ramsey made his first In
spection OF the w. q L. e., and the Ma
varre proposition Is the result. Abou
so train crews and large number Q
shop men will move to that place from
) this city, Canton aud oehpg e&nklna
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