. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . .^D. ularly, that even during the darkest daysof financial depression and legislatixc re-pression, there were enterprising spiritsgifted with the vision of the future, andwho saw with the eye of faith all thewonder that would be. Xo better proofof this could be found than a brief glanceat the modernizing of a railroad as shownin the rebuilding and the re-ci|uipnicMt ofthe Chicago Great Western Railruad Onlya few years ago, in passing over it we oli-served that it had all the ear marks offinan
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . .^D. ularly, that even during the darkest daysof financial depression and legislatixc re-pression, there were enterprising spiritsgifted with the vision of the future, andwho saw with the eye of faith all thewonder that would be. Xo better proofof this could be found than a brief glanceat the modernizing of a railroad as shownin the rebuilding and the re-ci|uipnicMt ofthe Chicago Great Western Railruad Onlya few years ago, in passing over it we oli-served that it had all the ear marks offinancial decrepitude. The grass grew onits poorly ballasted track. The signals ofred ruin lit the gloomy pathway fnimsleepy towm to town. The passionate ex-haust of the overworked locomotives thatwended their weary way through thethinly populated region was accompaniedby the clanging of the loose jointed con-necting rods, that sounded more like abusy blacksmiths shop on wheels than atwentieth century locomotive at work, llwas not the otily railroad that had itstrials and troubles. were large. TXTEKIOK \IK\ i; Ol COACH ON THERIC.\T VVESTERX. dawn alter the darkness. It was likespring coming after a hard winter bring-ing flowers like jewels on her arms. Themoney was distributed along the line inthe form of permanent old track was greatly improved to thetunc uf $11,000 per mile along the ^00 miles. Steel bridges sprang intoexistence. Ninety pound steel rails tookthe i)lace of the lighter worn out mate-rial. Wooden coaches gave way to newsteel passenger cars. Steel freight carscame into service. High-powered mod-ern locomotives, electric safety devices,telephone dispatching, and all the minordetails of a first class railroad came sud-denly in operation. This was not all. Every village andhamlet along the rejuvenated road seemedto catch the vitalizing influence. Villagesblossomed into townsj and towns intocities. The great travelling public,
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