Lives And Works of Civil And Military Engineers of America
Lives And Works of Civil And Military Engineers of America
Charles B Charles Beebe Stuart
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The object of this road was to connect the cities of Nashville, Tenn. , and Danville, Ky. From the latter point a railroad was already in progress to Cin- cinnati. He immediately organized two parties of engi- neers, had the surveys carefully made, the cost estimated, and on the second day of the following December made a report to the Board of Directors upon the cost of the road, CAPTAIN JOHN CHILDE. 187 and the resources of the country through which it would pass. He took charge of constructi...ng the New Orleans and Ohio Railroad in eighteen hundred and fifty-three, ex- tending as a branch of the Mobile and Ohio, from near the northern boundary of Tennessee to Paducah, at the con- fluence of the Ohio and Tennessee rivers, organizing their affairs upon a sound basis, and stimulating them to exer- tions that finally were crowned with success. In the spring of eighteen hundred and fifty -five he was appointed to report upon two surveys, made by different engineers, for the Edgefield and Kentucky Railroad.
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