Trains Through Ann Arbor Will Run To Pittsburg

TRAINS THROUGH ANN ARBOR WILL RUN TO PITTSBURG

The Ann Arbor to Become a Part of the Wabash Railroad System

The Ann Arbor and Wheeling & Lake Erie to be Closely Joined - Through Trains Detroit to Toledo Via. Milan

Within the year the Ann Arbor railroad is to be made a part of the Wabash system.

As has been previously noted, the Wabash has secured possession of the road by the purchase of a majority of the stock. This does not mean that the road is to be used simply as a feeder to the Wabash line. It is to become part of the system and be operated as such.

For example, the Wabash will put on trains from Detroit to Toledo, running from Detroit to Milan by the present Wabash line and from Milan to Toledo by way of the present Ann Arbor line. This route, which may at first blush seem a roundabout one, is only seven miles longer than the Michigan Central route from Detroit to Toledo.

This will give Ann Arbor shippers two freight lines from here to Chicago and from here to Detroit and the east.

The Wabash has also acquired the Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad which runs from Toledo to Wheeling, West Virginia, a distance of 223 miles, and from there to Steubenville, a distance of 24 miles. This is not far from Pittsburg, Pa., and the line will be extended to that city. All that has hitherto prevented this is the $10,000,000 necessary to build the big bridge required over the Ohio and the Mononghela, and the heavy expense of entering Pittsburg on elevated tracks.

This is gone into more particularly because it is believed that the Ann Arbor road and the Wheeling & Lake Erie will constitute practically one line, running trains from the lumber regions at one end and the coal regions at the other.

Thus, instead of Toledo being the terminus of the trains running through Ann Arbor, the eastern terminus will be Pittsburg, Pa.

By the Wabash also Buffalo on the east can be reached and Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha and Des Moines on the west.

From the standpoint of the manufacturer the making of the Ann Arbor a part of the Wabash system will be of great advantage to Ann Arbor.