The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-15
RAILROAD NEWS.
Union Pacific Behind the
Topeka and Northwestern.
Gives Coveted Outlet to the
Northwest.
CAPITAL OF $1,7OO.OOO
Will Also Double Track Kansas
City Line.
Expenditures Will Exceed
Three Millions.

The Topeka and Northwestern rail-
road company, capitalized for a mill
lion and three quarters dollars, with
N H LOOMS, president, R. w. Blair.
vice president, and H. A. Scandrett,
secretary, promises to shortly give
the city of Topeka the much coveted
outlet to the northwest.
This company recently took out a
state charter, and construction work
will begin soon, in all probability in
side of sixty days
| The surveys for the railroad have
all been made. The line will be built
from Menoken, six miles west Of To-
peka to connect with the Union Pa
! cific at Marysville, a distance of 81
miles 1t has been decided that the
road will cross the Leavenworth, Kan
sas and Western railroad at Onaga and
the Missouri Pacific at Frankfort
This road is being built to form a
part of the Union Pacific railroad sys-
| tenn Trains will use the main line
of the Union Pacific out of Topeka
west to Menoken where the road
branches off.
The surveys have been made and
while two or three routes through
various districts along the road have
been surveyed, the general outlines of
The other details of the route will
be decided by the Union Pacific Of
ficials.
The blue prints show that the pre-
liminary work was done under the
supervision of J. B. Berry, chief en-
gineer of the Union Pacific, whose
headquarters are at Omaha.
The Topeka and Northwestern Of
ficials declare that they will not ask
county and township aid in the con-
struction of the line. 1t is known that
the people throughout the section of
the state which the line will traverse
are Favorable to the construction of
a railroad to tap this country, and
it is not thought that it is probable
there will be any opposition or that
any trouble will be experienced In
securing the right-of-way for the pro-
posed new line.
This company has set about having
the land to form a right-of-way con-
demned, and the land will be bought
outright, thereby relieving counties
and townships of any burden in help
ing to get the line constructed
Commissioners have been appointed
to condemn the land for a right-of-
way in Shawnee county and the COM
missioners will be appointed in the
other counties through which the
road will pass in a few days.
1t is very likely that through pas
tween Omaha and Kansas City via
this line. The service northbound
will prove better for Topekans than
any existing service, giving better
time from Topeka to Lincoln and
Omaha.
Major T. j. Anderson, one of the
promoters of the proposed Topeka and
Frankfort line declares that the ac-
ton on the part of the Topeka and
Northwestern company is a bluff, and
to those who are on the outside, it
has been looked upon in the light
of a race to see which company would
fl1a n-T-ifo fret
This line is to be built as soon as
possible" said r. w. Blair to a re-
porter for the State Journal today.
1T has been our purpose to build
going right ahead now to get it done
as soon as possible, irrespective of
the action of any other corporation"
This work, together with the work
outlined in the plan to double track
the main line of the Union Pacific be-
tween Topeka and Kansas City will
make heavy expenditures by the
Union Pacific in Kansas. 1t will mean
the expenditure of probably three mill
lions of dollars.
The announcement has been au-
made from the Union Pa
cific headquarters at Omaha that work
second track between Topeka and
Kansas City.
This has been made necessary on
account of the increase in traffic.
the line between the two points men
toned, and the traffic is too heavy
for a single track.
The double track talk has been in
the air for a number of years. It has
usually been rumored that the Rock
Island company would build the new
track but it has never been the in
tention to work out the plan in that |
way The Union Pacific company
builds the track and the Rock Island |
simply pays mileage for every car
sent over the line.
The work of building the second |
track along the right-of-way to Kan |
sas City will of necessity be a very
expensive undertaking. 1t is a diff |
cult piece of road building.
Work will be begun on the north |
west line out from Topeka, so that |
Topeka will soon be the headquarters |
of a LARGE force of xvnrIzraan