| From the Raleigh Confederate |
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| January 25, 1865 |
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| The War News |
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| We learn that the Piedmont connection will
be in running order today or tomorrow. From what we hear there are
certain obvious facilities of transportation which the Government may
command by the alteration of the gage of this road, and which it should
take advantage of at the earliest moment. In our great line of Southern
communications, extending from Richmond to Augusta, the road is of the
same gage, excepting the Piedmont link, which extends forty-eight miles.
It is only necessary to conform the gage of this forty-eight miles of
railroad to that of both its connections, by moving one of its rails
three inches and a half -- a work which a gang of negro laborers might
do in a week -- to have a single gage from Richmond to Atlanta, over
which trains might pass without once breaking their freight. As it is,
we hear there is great occasion for delay in the re-shipment of freight;
and we are informed that it is not an unfrequent occurrence for trains
to be detained at Greensboro' for two days at a time, waiting to shit
their freight. There is no occasion for these stages of transportation
which choke up the road, and no reason that we can discover but the
neglect of obvious facilities why the Government should not run through
trains from points as far as Georgia to the depot in Richmond |
| Richmond Examiner, 14th |
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