Bridgeport then began to anticipate the long deferred line connecting Bridgeport and Kearney, and the following appeared in the local press of the time :

"Every man and every team that can be crowded into the big tunnel work west of Guernsey is being rushed to the scene of activity and carload after carload of outfits and equipment are being shipped to that point. The Burlington is using every effort to push that work to completion. at the earliest possible date.

"Prominent railroad men who are in position to know what they are talking about, have given out the statement within the past few days that as soon as the harvest season is over and labor becomes more plentiful, work on the Bridgeport-Kearney line will be commenced, and others who have interests here and are waiting for the first steps to be taken in the building of the new line to launch other enterprises, have written that they have been given the same assurance.

"In fact it is believed that nothing less than a financial panic will stand in the way of filling in the gap between Bridgeport and Kearney this year."

Bridgeport to Harriseurg "An Electric Line would be a Direct Benefit without Proving a Menace to Our Business Interests," was headlined at Bridgeport in May, 1913, when Banner county was in a fever for a railroad.

With the possibility that the effort to build a standard gauge railroad from Cheyenne to Bridgeport might not prove successful, the News-Blade suggested that a company be at once organized and incorporated to build an electric or motor line from Bridgeport, via Redington, to Harrisburg, and as much further as the business would warrant. The News-Blade said :