St. Paul, Jan. 29 - The Illinois Central Road is reaching out to the Northwest for big traffic for the Chicago fair. This fact was dropped today by Division Superintendent E.G. Russell of that company. In an interview while waiting for a train he said: "I had a consultation with President Fish relative to extending the road from Madison to Portage, a distance of about forty miles, and from that point to Minneapolis & St. Paul. President Fish thinks that the Illinois Central should run into those cities. The decision to build is practically final. The question to be determined is the route to be taken. President Fish thinks that it is possible to build through a good section of the country some distance from competitve roads and not by the Portage Route."
NY Times - Jan 30, 1891
Some miscellaneous railroad history tidbits around Burlington, WI and the surrounding area.
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