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| Lehigh Valley R. R. locomotive No. 919. |
THE TRUXTON ROUTE.
MANY ADVANTAGES OVER
ANY OTHER LINE.
Surveys All Made,
Easy Grades, Excellent Shipping Points, Short Line to the St. Lawrence.
[From the Syracuse Post,
Thursday.]
While members of the Business Men's association
and other Syracusans have been worrying over and working for the entrance of
the Lehigh Valley railroad into Syracuse, surveys for just such a road as is now
contemplated, made several years ago, are now in the city. Their existence is
known only to a few, the railroad officials and the Business Men's association
having no knowledge of them.
Several years ago General Burt, a well known
projector and manager of several railroads in New York and New England, made
several surveys in this part of the state. One of them was to determine an
entrance into Syracuse for the Elmira, Cortland & Northern railroad, now owned by the Lehigh Valley, and at
that time the Utica, Ithaca & Elmira
railroad.
General Burt spent all of one summer at the
work with a large party of surveyors. He thoroughly surveyed the whole route,
made proper plans, with elevations, etc., and then the work was for some reason
dropped. These surveys are now in this city and in the possession of J. Emmet
Wells.
The plans proposed a railroad starting at
Truxton on the E, C. & N. R. R. Thence the proposed route runs in a northwesterly
direction up Labrador creek, passing through Apulia. Running on the opposite
side of the valley from the D, L. & W. railroad, on the east side of
Butternut creek, it passed through DeWitt Center and thence into Syracuse.
This route possesses many advantages. The
steepest grade encountered is only fifty-five feet to the mile, which is much
less than the D, L. & W. has on some portions of its route. The cuts and
fills are about equal, thus saving a large amount of money in grading. It would
also be one of the cheapest routes that could be selected, connecting the desired
points,
Accompanying the surveys are papers showing
to whom the land belonged and estimates as to the amount of freight business
that would be done on the road. One of the best villages passed through by this
route is Jamesville. Ten thousand tons of freight are shipped from this place
every year, and from 5,000 to 7,000 tons of coal received.
This route also possesses another big advantage
for the Lehigh railroad people. They have also been talking for years of
building a road through to the St. Lawrence and the northern part of the state,
From DeWitt a road could be constructed in a northerly direction, and Lehigh
officials would have the northern outlet which they have so long been wanting.
(General) Grinnell Burt references:
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