The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-10
RAILROAD NEWS.
Route of the Orient to Kansas
City.
EudOra and Lawrence Will Get
the Road.
MAY CROSS THE RIVER.
Officials Not Yet Ready to Give
Details.
Gossip and Matters OF Interest
in Railroad Circles.
MAY CROSS THE RIVER

Kansas City, July 1o.@The route of
the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient rail-
way through Kansas from Usage City
to Kansas City has been finally fixed
The line has been definitely located as
far east as Eudora, Kan, a town on
the Santa Fee, eight miles east of Law
renee, Kan. 1t has not yet been deter
mined whether the line will cross the
Kaw river at Eudora or be continued
on the south side of the river, crossing
the stream near Edwardsville. few
miles west of Kansas City.
The Orient officials hesitated for
some time between two routes east OF
Emporia. One proposed line ran
through Baldwin, in the southern part
of Douglas county, and from Baldwin
to Lyndon, in Usage county, and thence
to Emporia. The other line was
through Lawrence, using the old right
of way of the Carbonate line through
thence to Emporia. The latter route
has been decided upon and the line
will have Lawrence on its map instead
of Baldwin.
the Santa Fee tracks at Eudora. The
work of constructing its own tracks
between Ellinor and Kansas City will
be pushed rapidly.
The Orient will be operating it's own
passenger trains into Kansas City by
January 1. Work is progressing
rapidly between ElDorado, Kan, and
Ellinor, Kan. The latter point is on
the main line of the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe system, west of Emporia.
With the completion of the track to
Ellinor a connection will be made and
the Orient trains will be run into KAN
sas City over the Santa Fe tracks to
Usage City and the Missouri Pacific
tracks between Usage City and Kan
sas City. The use of the Santa F'e
and the Missouri Pacific tracks will be
continued until the Orient builds its
own line to Kansas City.
The east end of the Orient system
is now completed and in operation
from Wichita, Kan, to Longdale, Okla,
a distance of 140 miles. 1t is also in
operation between Sylvester, Okla, and
Sweetwater, Texas, a distance of TWEEN
ty miles. With the completion of the
line between Sylvester and Longdale
the line will be in operation from Kan
sas City to Sweetwater. In Mexico the
line is in operation east and west OF
Chihuahua, and on the Pacific coast
side of the Sierra Madras range from
Ell Fuerte to Topo1obampo. Grading
is in progress on three parts of the
system in Mexico and construction is
being pushed as rapidly as men and
material can be secured.
Within the last few months the east
end of the line has been built north
from Wichita to ElDorado, Kan. The
grading is practically completed be-
tween ElDorado and Ellinor and track
laying and bridge building is proceed
ing rapidly. The line is being built
with steel bridges on concrete abut-
ments, seventy-five pound steel rails are
being used The line is also building
south from Sweetwater to San Angelo
Surveys are being made for line from
San Angelo to Eagle Pass where $50
miles of track will lbe built connecting
the Orient with the Mexican Central
railway. This will afford the shortest
line from Kansas City to the City OF
Mexico by means of the Mexican Cen
trail and the Mexican international
railroad.