The Brunswick news., 1909-08-08
WILL BRUNSWICK
BE TERMINUS Of
THIS BIC LINE :?
WHAT MAY PROVE TO BE FUTURE
OF GEORGIA COAST G.
PIEDMONT.
A Trunk Line, from Brunswick to
Toledo, Ohio, May Be an Accom-
plished Fact Within a Few Years.
Only Short Line Would Have to Be
Built to Complete 1t.

II the predictions of a man who is
in a position to know the plans of GER
tain railroad developers hold out as
correctly for the next three years as
they have proven true during the past
two years, Brunswick is destined to
be the south Atlantic terminus of
great trunk railroad connecting the
Great Lakes at Toledo, o., with the
south Atlantic at Brunswick. Predic-
tions made by this gentleman in 1907
have turned out just as outlined by
him. What this great north and south
trunk line would do for this port goes
without saying. At present there is
no such railroad east of tie Missis-
sippi except the Illinois Central from
Chicago to New Orleans, connecting
up the Great Lakes with the Gulf.
From Toledo, o., to Brunswick is. a
long jump, an ideal long haul" from
a railroad point of view When it is
realized that over half Of the road
has been completed and is in opera
ton handling hundreds of cars Of coal
every day, it takes no stretch of the
imagination to figure out what the
builders are quietly pushing through
to completion. ---u.~-'s lys ~
One Short Gap. :,
But one short gap remains-from
Augusta to Glenville the present
terminus Of the Georgia Coast and
Piedmont, which will be operating
trains into Brunswick within the
coming year. With this gap covered
Brunswick would be put IN touch with
johnson City, Tenn, from which point
the proposed trunk railway Is now
pushing northwards at a rapid rate.
having as its objective point Catletts-
burg, KY, on the Ohio river, where
a direct connection is to be made with
the Norfolk and Western into Toledo.
Ohio
While Georgia papers have publish
ed little about the plans of the new
route, railroad journals for the past
year have given many columns to this
system because of the remarkable en-
gineering work shown on the branch
from Johnson City, Tenn. to Marion.
N. &. At one point the road passes
under the base CT mountain nearly
5000 feet high. The railroad Jour
nails report this track as one Of the
finest in America and the most cost
ly. -
Into Augusta Next. =
That Augusta sees what is coming
is shown by report in the Augusta
Herald on Friday, which was given
special prominence by that paper.
Says the Herald:
ut was given out by a prominent
railroad man late Wednesday after
noon that by recent traffic arrange
ment with the Charleston & Western
Carolina railway, the Carolina, Clinch-
field & Ohio railroad win operate
trains into Augusta by October /
over the G. & w. c.. tracks from
Spartanburg. It is said by those who
are in position to know that within
eighteen months the Clinchfield will
be operating trains into Augusta on
its own rails.
10 Au4QSLd.s
BY the traffic arrangement made
by the c., G. & o. Ry they viii op-
crate trains from Cincinnati, o., to
st. Paul. Va, over the tracks Of the
Norfolk & Western, from st. Paul to
Spatanburg over their own rails and
from SparGanburg to Augusta over
the G. & w. G.. The trunk lines have
concurred in making Johnson City.
Tenn, the basing point for the rail
road, and when the G., G. & o. has
completed its line ~ Elkhorn, KY,
1t will make Augusta about the essame
distance by rail from Cincinnati that
Atlanta now is.
This arrangement will be Of much
value to Augusta merchants, as it
will make Augusta III miles nearer
to Cincinnati than it now IS and, as
Cincinnati is the gateway for all
freight moving from the west 1t will
insure Augusta merchants quicker
service for freight, and will in all
probability cause reduction in the
present freight rates from the west.
1t will also open up the richest coal
fields in the world and much of this
coal will move to and through Au-