The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-06-11
new RAILROAD IOip
Be TRUNK LINZ
Is the Belief Of Many
County People.
Will be Most Direct Ling r ?,
Louisville to St.Louis a Z
Great Northwest. nv.

Now that tne steel 10 III PiootsfH
pleting the preliminary constrpRn
the natural inquiry is what does4t5drt-
ford and Ohio county get in the new
road. What service, passenger and
freight; what character of road is 1t
TO be? These questions have not
been fully answered, and cannot be
now. However,w people are satisfied
, with the new railroad through Hartford
and highly elated that we have
railroad should it prove to be only
short line or extension of the lr-
ginvton branch, with such service as
is now maintained on that branch.
There are however many conditions
which lend force to the various
rumors that a much better service
than this is TO be inagurated from
the very inception of traffic over the
new road. The road bed and grade
are pronounced the most ideal of any in
the state, and but few in the whole
country SuIpdSS IL, IhC NACS uSSu oiS
the best the market affords; the steel
is much heavier than is ordinarily
used on new roads; the latest method
of ballasting will be employed, the
work having already began, whereas
it is ordinarily the case that new roads
except extremely important ones, are
J used for years without ballast; in fact
everything connected with the con-
Sstruction work goes to show that
this is to be an important section of
sroad,
1t is pointed out that with the COM
pletion of the NJ. H. and L. the l..
& n. company can by the construc-
ton of about six miles of road from
Morganfield to Shawneetown and the
building of a bridge across the Ohio
River at the latter point established
a more direct route from Louisville
to st. Louis and the Northwest
than any other road,the same being
several miles shorter than by the
present route, Via. Owensboro, Hen
derson and Evansville. That this will
be done in the near future is current
ly reported and discussed on the
streets most every day. With this
sort Of deal, the NJ. H. & f. will be-
come one of the most important roads
in the entire country. Being locat-
ed on trunk line from Louisville to
st. Louis and the Northwest ON which
immumerable freight and passenger
trains will ply daily is an enviable
position, and to a people who have
never known the conveniences of a
home railroad, it may and likely will
appear too good to be true, but that
such is to be the portion of our peo-
pie is the belief OF many. No direct
representative of the railroad COM
pany has so informed us but lead
ing citizen of Hartford prominently
' identified with the company strongly
limited that such connection would
soon be established, in which event
the M. H. & e. will constitute a por-
i ton of trunk line as before stated.
IL is also pointed out that the com
pletion of the M. H. & E. will es-
tablished a more direct traffic line
from Louisville to many points in the
South and Southwest, which are now
reached by way of Bowling Green. 1t
will give direct outlet for the out
veloped along the line, as soon as the
road is completed. enabling coal opera
tors to ship their coal over the lines
Sof the same company, the l.. & NJ,
direct to the seabord to be loaded
on ocean steamships for shipment
to the far East and in fact to all
parts of the world by way of the
Panama Canal.
II will furnish a connecting link for
an important freight line from north
to south and visa versa. A gentleman
prominently connected with the track
laying end OF the construction work
remarked one day this week to citi-
Ven of Hartford that within twelve
months freight trains laden with per-
ishable products from the South will
be speeding through Hartford on way
to the market of the north. This Il
probably not authoritive, but 1t shows
what the general opinion OF the peo-