Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1922-04-05
R. R. FROM CROSSvILLE
TO THE "PLUCkY CITY"
Central of Georgia Said to Be Putting
Engineers in Field This
Week

! Crossville to Chattanooga are grow
/ ing brighter and should the informa-
| tion just received prove accurate act
ual construction work may commence
within a few weeks or months.
Former Senator w. J. Hodges re-
ceived a letter from friend in Chat
tanooga last week stating that the
Central of Georgia would put engi-
neers in the field this week making
the preliminary survey between Cross
vile and Chattanooga, but no Mention
was made stating at which end Of the
! line the survey would begin.
Should this information prove true
it is very reasonable to suppose that
the real objective of the road would
be Louisville, KY. with Crossvilfe a
temporary stopping point. When it
is remembered that the Central OF
Georgia is owned by the Illinois Cen
tral and that the latter road would
be tapped by this proposed line at
Hodginsville, KY, it becomes esay to
understand why the road would ulti-
mately be extended to Louisville once
it reaches Crossville
A this time c. L. James, Of Chatta-
nooga. is surveying the line between
Crossvile via Walden's Ridge to Cross
vile with the purpose of putting in
an electric road. Mr.. James is ex-
pected here almost any day to inves-
tgate this end of the line. In a re-
cent letter from Mr.. James, received
by T. f. Measamer, secretary of the
CrossvilIe Chamber of Commerce, Mr..
lanes said. 81 have been working
every dav with NV engineers on the
1ocation of the survey line. and so
far 7 find nothing serious in the way
7 am going to try to follow the west
brow of Walden's Ridge from Ander-
f-Son C,an. crossing the head of Se-
ouatchie valley from Walden's Ridge
Ito Cumberland mountain. II is going
as & want to make 1t 6rst-class rail-
road. Tt%wiil be ashort line from
Crossville to Chattanooga.
81 expect to pull the train with
electric motors. and electric motors
can make very much heavier grades
than a steam engine. | am going to
hurry the final location and conStruc-
ton of this roda as fast as possible,
and I hone YOU people will give me
all the aid and informa tion you can.
| ( am going to Crossvile and come
down the upper end of the road some
time within the next two weeks"
This letter from Mr.. James was
dated March II, but as the weather
| has been wet and very unfavorable
/ for the past three of four weeks, that
! is probably the reason he has not
vet visited this section. His arrival
any time now since the weather has
Frightened, need surprise no one.
c.. w. Nixon of the Nixon Mining
Drill company, in connecting on the
proposed electrihcation of the road to
connect at Crossvlle with the Tennes-
see Central and develop the rich pla-
teau section of the CumberlanGs, SAID q:
1t has now been settled by actual
operation extending over I period OF
years that heavy trains may be hauled
GRADES with electric locomotives that
woulb be impossible by steam locomos
ltives-that ? percent grades and 10 de-
gree curves are as easily negotiated
3by electric locomotives a. 81 percent
grades and 6 degree curves are by the
large Mallet steam locomotives.
This opens the way for the new and
most important railroad proposed by
IC. f. lanes from Crossville into Chat
tanooga. This road need not be limit
ed to the grades and curves demanded
bv steam operated trunk lines. Its