Show ll HOW Y RAilROADS GET CT THEIR It might b bo be supposed that railroads I which hear bear usually geographical CO names would show by their titles i what points i i they connect nut hut there thero are arc many ninny exceptions tinus tillus in this respect and some of ot them are nrc surprising rho Tho St. St Louis cud and San Francisco railroad for instance mj might bt bo be O supposed to run from St. St Louis to San F Actually it runs 3 32 miles we west t of St. St Louis The Minneapolis lis us St. St Louis railroad would O appear to torun I j run nin from Minneapolis to St. St t. t Louis It actually runs rune from Minneapolis to Anus An- An I fUS us la Ta about halfway to St. St Louis I The Omaha and St. St Lou Louis s railroad hl does not run from Omaha to St. St Louis but I from Omaha to Pattonsburg Mo 10 St. St I Louis is miles farther r east The Tho Toledo St St. Louis and Kansas City railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road or Clover Leaf LC as it is is more generally called caned runs from Toledo to St. St Louis which is the tho western terminus of tho the road Kansas Cit City Cit is milo miles away The Toledo Peoria Western railroad does not run from Toledo t to Peoria Foods but hut from Indiana state lino to Warsaw IlL lU The Tho ew New York Chicago o St. St Louis railroad or N Nick y PIa Plate te a as s it is ani versa ver- ver sa calls calls' called does not run TUn from New NewYorK NewYork York t to Chicago o and St. St Louis It runs from Buffalo to Chicago and a 3 passenger gor ger upon it II cast east and landing at Buffalo Bu f lo would be more moro than miles from Now i ew York wh whilo 10 a pas passenger nger ur uron upon upon up- up on it going west and landing at Chicago Chi Chi- I cage cago 0 would bo be miles from St. St Louis Tho rho Philadelphia Erie Eno railroad runs I from Sunbury Pa to Erie Tho The Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania l Boston railroad railroad rail rail- I road is v 5 miles long lone from Slatington ton Pa t to Campbell CaID Hall HaU on the Ontario Western We The Fort Worth i- i Denver City ra railroad roa-d roa is wholly iu in Texas docs does not touch Denver City and does docs not run into Colorado These in iu railroad nomenclature nomen nomen- are supplemented by another AUthe All AU the coal carrying roads running in tn the federal states have e as part of their r title the tho words and aud and western Here ar ar- some of them Delaware Lackawanna i Western the tho vow ew York Lake L Erie Eric Western the New Kew York Ontario Western ti the tho Lake Luke Erie Western the Norfolk Western the New York lork Susquehanna We Western the I Pittsburg Western Th The quantity of c coals transported by these railroads col col- is nine than tons in a 3 year Baltimore Sun |