. Routes and rates for summer tours . APPROACH TO THE CAVE OF THE WINDS, NIAGARA FALLS.—WESTERN TERH:iNrS R., W. & O. ROME, WATERTOWN AND OGDENSBURG RAILROAD. IMPROVEMENTS. ON March 14th, 1S91, the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg was leased in perpetuity tothe New York Central & Hudson River , The Worlds Greatest and Only Four-Track Railroad. The lessee company, appreciating the value of its new acquisition, andits capability of becoming the largest and most important summer resort and tourist trathc routein America, proceeded at once, with its usual enterprise, to raise to trunk-li
. Routes and rates for summer tours . APPROACH TO THE CAVE OF THE WINDS, NIAGARA FALLS.—WESTERN TERH:iNrS R., W. & O. ROME, WATERTOWN AND OGDENSBURG RAILROAD. IMPROVEMENTS. ON March 14th, 1S91, the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg was leased in perpetuity tothe New York Central & Hudson River , The Worlds Greatest and Only Four-Track Railroad. The lessee company, appreciating the value of its new acquisition, andits capability of becoming the largest and most important summer resort and tourist trathc routein America, proceeded at once, with its usual enterprise, to raise to trunk-line standard thatpprtion of the newly acquired propertv patronized by the summer travel. This has been accom-plished by hard work and the outlay of a large sum of money—more than one million dollars—inpermanent improvements and betterments, notably the relaying of the railway with the heavieststeel rails used north of the Trunk Lines, renewing and reballasting its road-bed, placing newties and increasing the number o
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