Railroad construction

DARLING

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 1/15/2008 at 07:47:16

Jackson Sentinel
December 22, 1870

From Mr. T. Darling, of Sabula, we learn that the work of grading on the S., A. & D. Road has been entirely suspended west of Preston, and that the only work now being done is to ballast up the road already completed. The engineer corps on this road are still busily engaged in making their surveys into this city, coming to town at night, and going out again in the morning. We shall probably not know what the result of their labors is to be until the various railroads centering here have matured their plans for the spring and summer campaign. No regular trains are being run, as yet, between Preston and Sabula, although considerable quantities of freight are being carried. At present this freight is transferred to Savannah by the ferry boat. The location of the bridge has not yet been determined upon, and until it is, Sabula, figuratively speaking, will “sit on nettles.”