PRR + MILW rumors

 "PENNSY" MEN ARE HERE

OFFICIALS OF BIG EAILROAD SYSTEM STOP ON THEIR SIGNIFICANT INSPECTION TOUR OF MILWAUKEE SYSTEM.
Pennsylvania railroad officials, as guests of the Milwaukee road, are inspecting Minneapolis today. They arrived at 6:30 p.m. yesterday and at 10:30 tonight will leave for Duluth. St. Paul will entertain them after 6:35 p.m. Wednesday. This is part of a general tour of the northwest which be gan Monday morning at Chicago. Sioux City, Omaha, St. Louis and other cities are to be visited. 

E. W. McKenna, assistant to the president F. A. Miller, general passenger agent E. S. Keeley, general freight agent, represent the Milwaukee road. The Pennsylvania officials in the party are: John B. Thayer, with vice president George D. Dixon, freight traffic manager James B. Wood, passenger traffic manager. Officers of the Pennsylvania lines: Joseph Wood, second vice president D. T. McCabe, freight traffic manager E. A. Dawson, manager Union Line. Chicago.  Officers of the Erie and Western Transportation company: E. T. Evans, vice president, Buffalo John E. Payne, vice president, Philadelphia.

Taken in connection with rumors in the railroad world as to the future relationship of the Pennsylvania-Milwaukee line to the transcontinental situation, the trip of the Pennsylvania men is believed to have considerable depth of meaning. The inspection trip will take in all parts -of the Milwaukee system, particularly that which would be involved in a thru line from Atlantic to Pacific.

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Minneapolis Journal - May 2, 1905

PRR & Ann Arbor to the Twin Cities

 PENNSYLVANIA BEHIND IT.

Marinette, Wis., March 21. —The announcement has been made here that the Pennsylvania railroad is behind the Ann Arbor in its project to secure terminals and build a belt line in Marinette and Menominee. This is only preliminary to extending the road from here to St. Paul and Minneapolis and ultimately to the grain fields of the northwest. This will give the shortest line from the grain fields to the Atlantic seaboard.

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Wood County Reporter - March 23, 1899

Ed note: guessing this is related to the Menominee & St. Paul proposal.