Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1905-03-14
Hopkinsville May Be Left
High and Dry a Mile
From Depot.
WORK TO BEGIN SOON.
Corps Of Surveyors Now
Here to Decide a Great
Question.

All the large hills on the Hender-
son division of the L. & N. railroad
from Empire, this county, to the
Tennessee line at Guthrie, will be
cut down for the purpose of facili-
tating traffic, both freight and pas
senger. A corps of engineers arrived
Saturday and will operate from this
city on the Al miles to be affected.
This work Las been under considera-
ton for several years and two years
ago preliminary surveys were made,
about which the Kentuckian Save a
report at the time. There are two
plans, one involving a change of the
roadbed at this city and at Crofton,
to escape hills, and the other re-
quiring the grades to be lowered and
heavy cuts madeAThe engineers here
are to decide definitely and first of all
what will be done at this place. A
new survey was made two miles east
of town, which if adopted would
leave Hopkinsville some distance
from the depot. This matter is the
real cause for delay in the construc-
ton of a new freight depot on the
old site on Ninth street. A similar
detour would be made at Caofton if
the line is changed here, but unless
both changes are made it is not like
ly that either will be. The other
plan of lowering the existing grades
would involve much cutting and call
for changing many grade crossings.
The trains from the South would
enter the city in a very deep cut,
much deeper than the one now ex-
isting, which is deep enough to hide
the trains. The crossing at Walnut
street would run over the railroad
tracks.
The contract has already been let
for the construction of the line from
Guthrie, KY, to Greenbrier, Tenn,
a distance of twenty-five miles, to
]. E. Rodes and E. A. Wilson, of
Knoxville. The rebuilding of this
portion of the road is for the purpose
of cutting down grades. The con-
tract includes the construction of
new bridges across Red River and
Sulphur Fork. About one years
time will be required to complete
the work, which will be expensive
and in some places of a difficult
nature.
There will be considerable cut to
make between here and Guthrie,
near Trenton. The survey now gc-
ing on here will be awaited with |
keen interest, as it will decide the
question of much Importance to Hop
kinsville and Crofton, whether the
depot is to be in town or mile or
two away. Hopkinsville had a con-
tract regarding the location of the
depot in 1868 when the road was
built and a violation of this contract
would make the removal of the de-
pot to point outside the city very
expensive matter to the railroad.
In fact the proposition to move the
line has not been taken seriously, but
IN a matter involving hundreds of
of dollars, it is not inn
that we may have ourmon-
~ returned to us and find ourselves,
ike Paducah, with a depot two
niles from town. This would make
4 street railway system at once an
absolute necessity.
The strongest factor in faver of a
lepot close to the city's business is
hat the /. c. people are right in
own and the L. & N. would neces-
arily lose much prestige by moving
outside of the the city limits and
irving its rival such decided adj
Tantage. Z