The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-24
FRISCO GETS
TO THE GULF
1T MAKES A DEAL WITH THE
LOUISVILLE G. NASHVILLE AND
TRAINS MAY BE OPERATED AT
EARLY DATE.
A special from New York says:

A special from New York says:
The st. Louis & San Francisco Rail-
road Company has reached an agree
ment with the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad Company for a route from
Memphis to New Orleans which it
failed to obtain by way of the Gould
system. This connection not only will
be Immediately available, but it will be
forty nine miles shorter between those
| two cities for the Frisco than by way
| of the st. Louis, Iron Mountain &
! Southern and the Texas & Pacific rail-
roads.
| Thus the Frisco Eastern lines in at
| last reaching the Gulf at Mobile and
New Orleans viii become possessed of
terminal POINTS that are considered
| especially desirable in view of the ap.
| preaching completion of the Panama
| Canal. The Louisville & Nashville, on
the other hand, will benefit in many
ways by the deal, one of the marked
| advantages to that road being that
the projected connections and ex-
| tensions called for in the agreement
will bring it to the Great Lakes.
The new agreement, which is to run
| for long term of years, makes the
| Louisville & Nashville a stockholder
in the New Orleans, Mobile & Chicago
Railroad, in which the Frisco. has held
| an interest for several years, this in
| IeTSSL having recently D60n materially
| increased. The agreement also pro-
vides for the building of two ex-
| tensions of the New Orleans. Mobile
& Chicago, neither of which will be of
great length.
| Mr.. Yoakum says of the arrange
ment with the Louisville & Nashville:
The Louisville & Nashville Rail-
road has become interested in the
| ownership of the New Orleans. Mobile
&; Chicago Railroad with the ST. Louis
& San Francisco Railroad. This means
| a great deal to that whole section of
country south of the Ohio river.
1T is contemplated that the New
| Orleans, Mobile & Chicago will be ex-
| tended from some point north of Mo-
bile to a connection with the Louis
| vile & Nashville at some point be-
| tween New Orleans and Mobile, which
will make the New Orleans. Mobile &,
| Chicago the short line between Chi
cago and both Mobile and New Or
| leans.
TN addition to the contemplated ex-
tension of the New Orleans, Mobile &
| Chicago into New Orleans, that line,
under the new deal, will be extended
| to a connection with the Nashville,
| Chattanooga & st. Louis at some
point at or ner Jackson, Tenn, or
| Lexington, Tenn, with traffic or
| trackage arrangement to Paducah,
Ky. on the Ohio river. where it will
! connect with the new bridge to be
constructed over the Ohio river by the
! Louisville & Nashville, Chicago &.
Eastern Illinois, Chicago Burlington &
| Quincy and the Big Four.
| The new plan gives to the Frisco
a line from Memphis to New Orleans
/! forty nine miles shorter than from
| Memphis to New Orleans over the
| Missouri Pacific lines west of the
iy-y1 ct 3 H.
| Missouri Pacific and Texas & Pacific
have not carried OUT
The New Orleans, Mobile & Chicago
! which was organized about two years
ago as the successor of the Mobile
Jackson & Kansas City and Gulf &
| Chicago roads, which had been sold in
| foreclosure, extends from Mobile to
Middleton, Tenn. just over the border
from the state of Mississippi. At New
Albany, Miss, II connects with the
| 'FTisCo's line running between Mem
| phis and Birmingham, which was
formerly the Kansas City, Memphis &
| Birmingham railroad.
| The Louisville & Nashville runs
from Nashville through Mobile to New
Orleans, so that the Frisco will be en-
abled without any delay to operate its
trains between Memphis and New Or
leans, using its own track from Mem
phis to New Albany. for which It will
of course. pay no rental: the New Or
leans, Mobile & Chicago from New
Albany to Mobile and the Louisville
| & Nashville from Mobile to New Or
leans.
AS explained by Mr.. Yoakum. how
ever, a cutoff is to be constructed to
connect the New Orleans, Mobile &
Chicago. north of Mobile, with the
Louisville & Nashville west of that
city, thus shortening the distance for
through traffic between Memphis and
| New Orleans. From the latter city the
st. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico rail-
way, controlled by the Frisco, extends
along the Gulf through Louisiana and
Texas 10 Brownsville. Texas. where it