More traction action --1906

Rushville Republican, Feb. 26, 1906

WORKING EAST

OF CONNERSVILLE

Route of I & C Out of That City is Being Laid Out

Saturday's Connersville News says Chief Engineer J.W. Moore, resident engineer Karl Harrison and Division engineer Claude Ott have spent three days past southeast of the city.

They are taking barometrical measurements of the elevations and depressions of the ground, over which it is proposed to build the I & C line from this city (Connersville) southeast. The News has been advised of their presence at or near the villages of Fairfield, Dunlapsville and Everton and there is much pleasurable excitement in those vicinities in consequence.

While this work is thought to be preliminary to determine exactly the most direct and desirable route, it is said to be practically settled that the line will cross the east fork of the Whitewater. about a mile north of Fairfield.

From that point there is little elevation to reach the broad,  level plateau that extends throughout Franklin County and beyond.

May 18, 1906

Track is Laid on I & C to the Flatrock Bridge

Eleven miles of grade will be done June 1st -- Work on Connersville Extension.

The work of laying the track for the I & C traction line, east out of Rushville, has been finished as far as Flatrock Creek. The big steel girders on the bridge across Flatrock wee all put in place and completed this week. 

Poles for the wires have been put up and already for quite a distance out of this city and much other work in the way of getting ready for the track has been done.

A great deal of material which has been distributed along the grades is now being shaped into condition, and a large force of men is at work at various points to push the construction to completion as rapidly as possible.

It is thought by traction men that cars will be running into Connersville sure the latter part of October. At the moment there are enough ties, rails, poles and other materials at the fairgrounds for the construction of the lien between this city and Glenwood.

Note: Traction lines were being proposed and imagined for decades, but nobody ever got around to building a line to Brookville.