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

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.

PRR to Sault Ste Marie? Manistique Marquette & Northern

A preliminary survey for a railroad from St. Ignace to Sault Ste. Marie for the Pennsylvania interests, controlling the Grand Rapids & Indiana road, has not progressed further.

The Manistique. Marquette & Northern road, extending from Manistique to the South Shore at Shingleton, has been materially improved since being acquired bv the Pere Marquette system
some months ago. It is reported the intention to build to a connection with the Cleveland Cliffs company's system.

Minneapolis Journal, 9-12-1904

Pennsylvania RR trying to reach Lake Superior Country

A Duluth man who recently returned from the East says that the Pennsylvania railway system is aiming to reach the south shore of Lake Superior and Duluth via the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic from Shingleton.  He says:

"It is currently reported in railroad circles in New York that the Pennsylvania system is going to push farther into the Lake Superior region in search of business in connection with the Grand Rapids &
Indiana road which it is said to control.

The Grand Rapids & Indiana runs north in Michigan to Nortbport, and it is claimed that negotiations are now in progress for the establishment of a car ferry between there and Manistique.

From Manistique to Shingleton there is a logging road, formerly owned by the Chicago Lumber company. It is now in other hands, and is known as the Kauffman line. The Pennsylvania line is supposed to be behind the Kauffmans. The Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic touches Shingleton.

In connection with this road a new route would be furnished from the Lake Superior region to the East. If the movement of ore ever becomes an important factor in all rail transportation, the Pennsylvania system would be in an excellent position to reach many of the important points of consumption from the Lake Superior region."

L'Anse Sentinel, 1-17-1903

New Line to Milwaukee

Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 21. - Milwaukee merchants and shippers are in receipt of a prospectus issued by the Central Michigan Railroad Company and the Michigan and Ohio Belt Line Railroad Company, which propose to furnish Milwaukee with new railroad connections with the east.  Local railroad men who have no interest in the project say they understand the projectors of the roads have good financial backing.

The object of the organization of the companies named is to maintain a continues line of rail and water way from Milwaukee by way of Grand Haven, Grand Rapids, Battle Creek, Coldwater, and Camden. Mich.; Napoleon, Bowling Green, Fremont, and Cleveland, Ohio.  This line with car ferry connections between Milwaukee and Grand Haven, would carry through freight to the Atlantic seaports, including Newport News, while freight westbound could be sent all over the Northwest from Milwaukee.

The railroad connections of the line as proposed will be the Chicago and Grant Trunk, Pennsylvania, Michigan Central, Lake Shore, Baltimore and Ohio, Erie, and the Norfolk and Western.  It will also make direct connections with the Cincinnati Northern and the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton for Cincinnati and southern Points.

An issue of $7,000,000 5% first mortgage gold bonds has been arranged for.

NY Times  12-22-1898

Big Western Railroad Move

Eastern Syndicate may want Wisconsin Central and Great Western
Special to the New York Times

Chicago, Ill., Feb. 5. - Another move is about to be made by the syndicates that are attempting to control all of the important railroads in the country.  The Harriman - Vanderbilt - Morgan - Pennsylvania combination, having about finished its work of consolidation in the territory east of Chicago, has turned its weapons upon the western field of transportation.  The managers of the controlling pool are trying to corral the only two independent roads between Chicago and St. Paul - the Wisconsin Central and the Chicago Great Western - in order to obtain absolute control of the Chicago - St. Paul district.

President Hill of the Great Northern, who is a prominent member of the Baltimore & Ohio end of the syndicate, is negotiating for the purchase of the Wisconsin Central, and, in fact, it is prevailing opinion in financial and railroad circles that the syndicate already has obtained control of this line.  This leaves only the little Great Western as an independent line.  According to alleged plans, this road also is to be absorbed and placed in the pool for freight purposes.  With the acquisition of these two roads, the syndicate practically will have achieved its end in bottling up the Chicago - Missouri River territory, as the Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Rock Island, and the Burlington lines, now owned by the Harriman or any other syndicate, are in entire sympathy with any plans which the syndicate may dictate.  On the syndicate's lines eastbound from Chicago plans for wiping out competition are assuming shape.

----- NY Times 2/6/1900

New Line for Pennsylvania

Menominee, Mich., May 9.-A big railroad scheme is likely to develop here within a sort time.  Representatives of the Pennsylvania Railroad are now at Minneapolis figuring on a line to be built between that city and Marinette, by which a connection will be formed with the Grand Trunk Road and the Pennsylvania by a car ferry at either Grand Haven or Muskegon, on the east shore of Lake Michigan.

NY Times - May 10, 1901

Pennsylvania in Milwaukee

Milwaukee - Dec. 19. - It is reported that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will erect shops in this city, and in support of this statement it is also said that the Northern Pacific and Wisconsin Central Lines, as merged under the Villard direction, are to be allied with the Pennsylvania Company, so as to secure a new transcontinental line.  Before the Northern Pacific secured a lease of the WIsconsin Central the latter had acquired title to most of the property necessary to give it terminal facilities in the heart of Milwaukee.  It is claimed that the Pennsylvania Company will be running into Milwaukee over the Central's tracks before the end of next year and that what was regarded as inexplicable folly bt the Northern Pacific people in antagonizing other St. Paul lines by taking the Wisconsin Central will be shown to have been a well-conceived and carefully-execuated plan for a new through line independent of all others.

NY Times Dec 20, 1890