The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-21
PLANS OF SEABOARD
CONNECTION TO BE ESTABLISHED
 WITH CINCINNATI.
Scheme Whereby The Road WIlI Invade The Middle west And Compete
 With The l.. 4 N. And Q. A q

Pittsburg, Pa, Feb. 2o.--(Speeial)- A great railroad project. destined ma terially to change the face of the in- dustrial South. will be oficially an- nounced by the seaboard Air Line Conl- pany in few days from its headquar- ters in Portsmouth, Va.
 The project Is nothing less than the lconstruction of trunk line from Ten nessee through the State of Alabama, Georgia and Florida and to ports on the southeast Atlantic coast. This line will also afford the west and middle west the shortest route to the gulf States from Cincinnati. the gateway to the South.
 Plans for this gigantic undertaking have been under way by the Seaboard Air Line for long time but they have been closely guarded until well enough along to guarantee they would The trunk line project of the Sea board had its inception in the purchase of the South and Western Railroad Of Tennessee. This comparatively insig- nificant line is now in operation be- tween Johnson, Tenn, and Spruce Pine, lin the same State. With a short branch its operative mileage is only seventy five miles
 The Seaboard Air Line purchased the property, the rights of way and the | franchises of this ....Ie Tennessee line several months ago. but it has kept lthe purchase quiet, fearing that if 1t lleaked out it's rivals would obtain an inkling of its plans and thwart them. Now, however, ownership of this line will be one of the things announced by the Seaboard in few days.
 In pursuance of the Seaboard's trunk I .-4.. aVz. .1 West have been quietly going on ever since the line was bought The work is now being accelerated by large ad- ditions to the construction forces which February 1, were brought up to ten thousand men.
 Connection has been made with the Norfolk and Western at Dante. Tenn. lThe road will next be extended north ward through Tennessee to Elkhorn, Ky, where it is proposed to connect with the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail road, a road allied with the Seaboard at other points, and over whose tracks it will obtain an entrance into Cincin- natl.
 Southward the South and Western | will be extended to a point at or near | Columbia S. C.. where connection will mingham divisions of the seaboSrd :. When these plans are carried out they vii give the Seaboard the leading posi- 1 ton among the TOdQS WHiCn IGdSiA VI Ohio river from the South, and a great change in the face of transportation ta- ciIities for the Southern industrial sec ton will inevitably come.
 The new trunk line will also give the Seaboard, which has heretofore con fined itself to eastern coast 'traVei 10 and from the South. an entrance into the middle west. And will make IL a formidable rival to the Louisville and Nashville and the Queen and Crescent
 The last named lines as well as oth . CTS between the AIleghenies and the Mississippi will undoubtedly pit terly resent the entrance of a rlVal ihto their territory but the Seaboards pro
 feet has the powerful backing or the
 great Pennsylvania system both IT, nancially and in a traffic way. The
 Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsourg
 esnecially. will cooperate with the new Line south from Cincinnati, and VII
 give it a big freight and passenger
 business from the first day of It's op eration. .,-. .-.- AL, Tine extension will be costly for th'
 Seaboard. The construction of 26'
 miles of railroad Is necessary to giv' inc new line the South Carolina june lion to Cincinnati, Tt will take abou , two wears, 1t is stated, to complet' thiS construction. and trains will h