Milwaukee Terminal & Traffic Ry

 MILWAUKEE TRAFFIC & TERMINAL RAILWAY.-An ordinance has been introduced in the city council of Milwaukee, Wis., granting this company a franchise to build a belt railway. According to the Evening Wisconsin, the plan is to build a railroad from Milwaukee to a point near the south line of the State in Kenosha County. It will there be connected with a line projected northward from Waukegan. There will be a belt line leaving the main line in the town of Lake and running around the city, with a spur running from the town of Wauwatosa through the Menomonee Valley into the city, and one from Williamsburg down Commerce street into the city. The Chicago Waukegan & North Shore Railway has secured rights from Waukegan to Kenosha, and is about to build. With the aid of this road the belt line could connect with the Wisconsin Central Railway at Leithton, Ill., and with the inner Chicago Belt Line at Mayfair, thus securing a direct line from Milwaukee to the Dearborn street station in Chicago. Edward P. Hackett of Milwaukee is one of the projectors.

1899

Calumet Western (PRR subsidiary)

 CALUMET WESTERN.-Preliminary plans have been completed for the construction of this road, which is to be built jointly by the Michigan Central, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and Pennsylvania company, and it is announced that work will begin as soon as the city council of Chicago passes an ordinance now before it granting the necessary franchise. The road is to be built from Hegewisch north along the west side of the Calumet river to South Chicago, intersecting the Pittsburg Fort Wayne & Chicago at Ninety-fifth street, a distance of about 5 miles. The company will absorb the Calumet River railway and the South Chicago & Southern, both controlled by the Pennsylvania company, the former extending from Hegewisch north on the east side of the Calumet river to South Chicago, at 100th street, a distance of 4.43 miles, and the latter from Colehour Junction to a junction with the P. C. C. & St. L. near Bernice, Ill., 9.32 miles, with a branch from Hegewisch to the Indiana state line, .93 mile. It is also said to be the intention to build a line from Calumet Park to Thornton, Ill.. which is about 4 miles west of Bernice, the southern terminus of the South Chicago & Southern.

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Railway Age, Feb 24, 1899

Winona, Marshalltown & Southern

 WINONA MARSHALLTOWN & SOUTHERN. This project is being revived, and the following directors were elected at a meeting in Marshalltown, Iowa, February 21: N. S. Ketchum, George F. Kirby, A. A. Moore, Charles C. Gilman and A. G. Glick, Marshalltown, Iowa; E. B. Woodruff, Knoxville, and E. S. Fonda, Osage, Iowa. The board elected the following officers: President, N. S. Ketchum; vice-president and treasurer, George F. Kirby; secretary, A. G. Glick; chief engineer, C. C. Gilman. The road is projected to run from Osage, Iowa, the southern terminus of the Winona & Western, south to Chariton, Iowa, 170 miles, passing through Allison, Grundy Center, Marshalltown, Newton and Knoxville. Surveys have been made, and it is stated that grading will begin in the spring.

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Railway Age Mar 3, 1899

PRR into Iowa?

A dispatch recently appeared in the daily papers to the effect that the Pennsylvania company had purchased the T. P. & W. railroad. This would make the western termini of the Pennsylvania at Keokuk, but many of the best poasted railroad men believe that that company have in view a continental line, that it will purchase the K. & W. and extend the line west to Omaha or Denver. While the present management of the K. & W. gives the public excellent service, much better than that offered by any other road of the same length in the state, a through line in many respect would be much better. Should the above idea be carried out it would place this county in direct connection with all the eastern markets. It would give this locality better freight and mail facilities. The Pennsylvania is one of the best railroads in this country and if the K. &. W. is to be absorbed by any of the great systems, it could not fall in better hands.

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The Farmers' Union -- Memphis, MO -- 12-7-1893.