The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-17
[. .&N. IMPROVEMENT
DOUBLE TRACK SYSTEM IN NEAR
 FUTURE.
Purehase of Branches Will Eaable Great Railroad Corporation to Relieve Main Line of Heavy
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If reported plans are executed a big part of the double track prob lem of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company will be solved.
 With its numerous s.detracks the Louisville and Nashville now has vir- tually double track most of the way from Birmingham to Calera. but from Calera to Montgomery there Is only single track.
 The purchase of the Chattanooga southern Railway by the Louisville and Nashville has put that system in commanding position to handle both freight and passenger trafic and will probably result in q double track sys- tenn for the great trunk line. Eto- wan, Tenn. Is station on the main line of the division ruhning from Cin- cinnatt to Atlanta. and between Eto- wah and Chattanooga, the terminus of the Chattanooga Southern from Gads- den to Chattanooga, is a gap of only a few miles. The present plans of the Louisville and Nashville are to build this gap between Chattanooga and Etowah. This will give the Louis- ville and Nashville another direct line from Cincinnati to Birmingham and with the present line from Cincinnati via Louisville. Nashville and Decatur to Birmingham would mean a com plete double track from Cincinnati to Birmingham. From Birmingha the Louisville and Nashville has the Bir- mingham Mineral to Blocton. From Flomaton to Selma the Louisville and Nashville would have another double track from Birmingham to Flomaton. in addition to the present line from Birmingham via this city and Super
 ntendent McKinney's banner Mobile and Montgomery Division to Floma- ton. This then would mean a com g-IA ~t | to Flomaton, and the relief that would accrue from diverting the enormous freight business that Is now handled on 8 single track from Cin- cinnati South would be .nestimable.
 J. K. Lanning. Travelling Freight and Passenger Agent of the LSuis- vile and Nashville at Anniston. in taikig to a Gadsden newspaper man of the new route from Etowah an Chattanooga, said
 "The new line will only be twen- ty-one miles longer to Birmingham than the Alabama Great Southern line in spite of published reports that the line would be one-fourth longer The Alabama Great Southern line is 143 miles long. The Chattanooga South ern is ninety-one miles long. The Louisville and Nashville line Is five miles from Gadsden to Attalla and the present Attalla- Birmingham line is s xty-eight miles in length. making a total of 164 niles from Chattanooga to Birmingham. The iine from Birm- ing hem to New Orleans is little ov- CT 400 miles long and the total from Chattanooga to New Orleans will be | about 57o miles. making a line sufii- ciently short for splendid fast freight l service.
 Should the company wish to avoid the Birmingham rush with | some of the through freigt. the line via Calera. Ala, Is open and can be utilized. All that is needed for the opening of the line in first-class con. dition and running order Is the im- provement of the tracts of the Chat tanooga Southern.
 "The Inc from Chattanooga to Eto- ! wah as aforesaid. is logical and will probably be built.
 These lines will give the Louisville l and Nashville a splendid network oi | lines to the important cities of the South, and will afford through lines | from Knoxville to Montgomery, Brm. | ingham. Mobile and New Orleans. via | Chattanooga, and will place the Louisville and Nashville n com manding position both for freight ant passenger traffic between all thes, cities"
 | The Louisville and Nashville ha. | announced the inauguration of a new
 fast vestibuled Pullman service