The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-12-21
Great Yards Being Built by the
rth.Western at Ranney to
be for Kenosha Business
PRAISES KENOSHA THRIFT
Says That Business of This City Is
Increasing Faster Than in Any
Other City of the State Re-
gard1ess of Size

Superintendent Peachem of the
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Company made tour of inspection to
Kenosha Thursday and spent almost
the entire day visiting factories and
talking with the managers in regard
to the plans Of the company to furnish
the shippers OF Kenosha with better
service.
During his visit Mr.. Peachem an
nounced that the great yards which
are now being built by the company
near the village of Ranney will be
used exclusively for the handling of
Kenosha freight. When the company
first began work at the yards it was
announced that the yards ewould be
used as q n auxiliary yard to the Chi
cago switching yards, but according
to the statement of the superintend-
ent the shipping business inhKenosha
is going forward with such rapid
strides that the big yards will be none
too large for the handling ofBthe bust
ness of this city alone.
Mr.. Peachem stated that hundred
cars came into Kenosha every day
and as many went out, and the hand
ling of this large business has become
almost impossible in thelsmall yards
about the station and to the south of
Prairie avenue. For some time the
company has been confronted with
this difficulty and it is impossible to
handle the cars with ease at the pres
ent tim rossings mustsbe blocked
and re- blocked while the cars are be-
ing separated and weighed and often
times the men in chargeaof the long
trains have been forced to waste many
hours in Kenosha swaiting' for switch
ing room.
At the new yards the company is
planning to spend several hundred
thousands of dollars. More than sixty
miles OF trackage will be put in and
it is expected that the work3 will be
completed by the middle of the COM
ing summer. When this yard is
completed all of the weighing and
transferring of cars willl. be done
there and the cars will besmade up
into trains for the various industrial
plants and this will be the only ship
ping in the limits of the city.
Mr.. Peachem stated that sKenosha
factories were goingls forward at a
more rapid rate Sthan any other
factories in the state of Wisconsin.
During the past year, j said Mr..
Peachem, ''there,shas not been a
single factory in Kenosha Ethat has
not largely increased its output and
there is not city in the state of Wis
consin regardless of its size that can
boast such a record. Tn.talking with
the factory men today, Iihave found
that they are nearly all satisfied with
the railway arrangements in Keno
sha, but the North Western company
wants to take care of thissbusiness in
Kenosha in the best possible manner.
We are trying to meet the city half
way in everything that comes up and
are asking for only fair treatment
from the people of the city"
Mr.. Peachem stated that the bust
ness of the company in Kenosha was
much larger than the business in Ra-
cine.
In speaking of the line now being
built the west of the city, Mr..
Peachem stated that it would be re.
lie to Kenosha on account of the
ia, that all of the through freights
on ne line would run on that line and
that many trains which were for Ke.
nosha would run on the line as far as
the Ranney Station, then be brought
into Kenosha over the Rockford
division. This he stated would largely
eliminate all possible blocking OF
crossings.
He stated that the company had not
planned to run any passenger trains
on the new line and that there would
be no change in the passenger
schedule. 1t is planned to open SER
vice on the Western line about the
first of next June.