The  first  and  principal  line  of  railroad  passing  through  Car-
roll County,  and  which  wrought  the  greatest  change  in  the  com
mercial  interests  of  the  county,  but  particularly  of  Delphi,  was
the  Lake  Erie,  Wabash  &  St.  Louis,  now  known  as  the  AVabash,
St.  Louis  &  Pacific.  The  company  which  constructed  this  road
was  originally  organized  in  1852.  The  line  was  surveyed  and
located  in  1853,  when  work  on  the  east  end  of  the  road  was  com-
menced, and  forwarded  with  the  greatest  activity.  In  1856,  it
was  completed  to  Logansport,  and  the  first  train  arrived  on  the
20th  of  March  of  that  year.  A  few  months  later,  the  work  of  con-
struction commenced  within  the  limits  of  CaiToll  County,  and  the
work  was  so  far  completed  that  the  iii'st  train  was  annoimced  in
Delphi  June  — ,  1856.  '  From  that  time  forward  until  the  present,
a  continued  stride  of  improvement  has  marked  the  progress  of
this  road  in  the  facilities  for  travel  and  for  transportation  in  gen-
eral it  affords,  the  quantity  and  quality  of  the  rolling  stock,
coaches,  etc.,  which  it  maintains.
LOGANSPORT,  CKAWFORDSVILLE  &  SOUTH- n'ESTERN.
The  Logansport,  Camden  &  Frankfort  Railroad,  which  subse-
quently became  the  Logansport,  Crawfordsville  &  South- Western,
was  organized  in  the  spring  of  1869,  and  adopted,  through  the
greater  part  of  its  route,  the  road-bed  and  right  of  way  of  thi
Camden  extension  of  the  old  Newcastle  &  Richmond  Railroad.
