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Show The improvements that are being made to the Baltimore and Ohio South Western railroad between Park-ersburg Park-ersburg and East St. Louis are being pushed rapidly to completion. Seventeen Sev-enteen thousand tons of 85 pound steel rails have been placed in the track, and there are still 25,000 tons to come, delivery being delayed on account ac-count of rush of orders at the mills. The company has also put in 125 miles of gravel ballast and expects to get out 200 miles more during the season, and it is hoped by Fall that the track will rank as the best in the west. A great many grade reductions and changes In line are also being made between Cincinnati and St. Louis. The purpose is to make a uniform one-half of one per cent grade between Cincinnati Cincin-nati and St. Louis, as well as to eliminate elimi-nate a large amount of objectionable curvature. At one point, for Instance, the line is to be shortened a mile and a half, 360 degrees of curvature eliminated elimi-nated and seven bridges abandoned. |