The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-05-04
GET BETTER SWITCHES.
New Line Will Aid Northwestern Road
in Handling Business of State.

| The Northwestern railroad belt line
around Milwaukee will be completed
and ready for use on Sept. l.
| This was the statement of Engineer
Daniel Roundsville, in charge Of the
construction work, last night. Mr..
Roundsville said that the grading work
under the direct supervision of John
Marsch of the John Marsch company,
would be completed before June. 1.
| Most of the work at present is CEN
tered around Butler and on the bridg-
| es and steel work of the new line.
Mr.. Roundsville said that the company
would spend at least $4,000 in the
construction work at Butler before
Sept. l.
| The new town will be the terminal
freight station. There will be twenty
three miles of track in the Butler
yards. Work on the big, sixty-stall
roundhouse is well under way.
! This building is being so construct
ed that an addition, equaling the orig
inal building, can be erected as soon
as needed. The building now being
built will be as large as the largest
roundhouse on the Northwestern sys-
tenn, and if the sixty stall addition is
constructed the Butler roundhouse will
be the largest Of the kind in the coun-
try.
An electric powerhouse, to furnish
the power for the turn table, for the
repair shops which are being built and
for lighting the railroad plant at that
station, is also under construction. In
addition to these buildings, the North
western company is building large
storehouse and a clubhouse for the
railroad employees who must locate in
the new town.
When the belt line is completed the
Northwestern company will have ex
pended close to $3,000,0oO on it's Mil
waukee terminal. The construction
work has been held back this spring
for the frost to get out of the ground.
1t is at present too soft for work, but
the construction men believe that in
another week the ground will be suf-
fciently hard to renew operations.
In addition to the belt line, the com
pany is double tracking the Wisconsin
division, the Madison division and the
Lake Shore division. In all, over IT'S
miles OF new line will have been con-
structed when the work is completed in
September.
Grading work for a double-tracking
system from Milwaukee to Fond du
Lac has been completed this spring.
Although no direct orders for laying
steel have come from the railroad Off
Gals, it is understood that the line will
be built before fall.
When the line is completed, Milwau-
ACo WILL NC OuC VI bilC UlSStSG bCIulu-
ais on the Northwestern system. The
grade from Milwaukee to La Crosse
will have been cut down, the line short
ened, and the many tunnels between
Milwaukee and Sparta done away with.
The haul will be such that one engine
will pull as many cars as four now
pull between Milwaukee anw Sparta.
After Sept. /, only local freights
will come into Milwaukee. All others
will be sent around the belt line and
put over their respective divisions.
The passenger trains will run as at
present
Not only will the belt line solve the
freight congestion problem, but it will
go a long way toward solving the
smoke nuisance problem for Milwau-
kee. The many freight trains which
must necessarily pour out black smoke
will go around the city, instead of COM
Il ing into it.
The bridge work is being pushed rap
idly, under the personal supervision Of
I'M. D. Clearly of the Cleary White Con-
struction company. A difficult problem
now confronts the engineers, as sever
al bridges must be lowered. This work
lis being pushed rapidly to completion.