The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-01-05

hO DChVCI 1uO
road has three feet track, the ties
are 81 feet long. and the banks have
IL feet cut. The iron weighs 80
pounds to the yard, and is fastened
with fish-plate joints. The maxi
mum curvature is six degrees to 100
feet. The Pennsylvania Central has
nine degrees, and the Union Pacific
twelve degrees. The maximum grade
is 70 feet to the mile, while the Dem
yer Pacific, rising to the North Di-
vide, between Greeley and Cheyenne
has 80 feet, the Union Pacific liz, and
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad 116.
Tie cost Of the road as now equip
ped was S13,5O0 to the mile. The
equipment includes 3 engines, pas
senger, 2 smoking, 2 baggage, 10 box
and 80 fiat cars also a depot at Dem
yer, and a machine shop so by 100
feet, with machinery for making
cars. The engines cost $500 for
passenger trains, and $500 for
freight trains. They weigh respect
lively IL and Ii tons. There arc
four drivers on the passenger and
six on the freight engines, with one,
pair of pony trucks in front, and q
radius bar connection. The engines
were made in Philadelphia, the iron
for the track in England, brought via
New Orleans. The freight has add
ed ofie-third to it's cost. A narrow
gauge road can be bull. in the East for
$4,000 to $l0,0 900 amile cash payment.
The freight cars have four wheels,
but those with eight wheels are. to
be made, and with such it is estima-
ted that the same average of freight
will be carried as by the ordinary
broad gauge cars. The passenger
cars have eight wheels, are seven
feet wide from outside to outside
and thirty-fivc feet long. On one
side are double, on the other side
single seats and one car will scat
thirty-four passengers. Sleeping
cars with double berths can be made
to accommodate as many passengers
as a Pullman now carries, when each
passenger has double berth. Ex-
cursiOn cars are to be made with re.
vOlving seats, one each side, and so
arranged that by turning the back to
\ the side of the car they form a scttee,
as in u Pullpan. eitH'i"
The officers of this road state that
it can do the work that almost any
road can do with single track. The
present freight cars are somewhat
similar and different from those to
be constructed. Stock cars are to be
made for bringing cattle from the
| Arkansas valley TO the mines, for
this road is to connect with the Colo
RADIO Central, now buildipg. The
rails of street cars in Denver arc to
be three feet; the. cars Of this road
are to be run into the streets, to load
and unload at the stores, saving
drayage. A single mule pulls load
ed car with ease. 20
1t is to be Hoped that accidents by
I the narrow gauge will be few, be-
cause with the ordinary brake. train
can be brought 10 a stand as'quickly
as other trains can be with the i'm
proved patent brakes. The center OF
gravity in the small cars is ten pei
cent. lower than in the larger ones,
hence the cars are loss likely to over
turn, and the &hole weight of the
4 trains being less, collisions must be
less violent. The Denver and BIC
/ Grande LiGe is conducted under a
different method. The engineer
alone has charge Of the running OF
the train. The conductor is an agent
and he is also a telegraph operator.
He carries Il Geographic apparatus
with him, and stations arc attached
to telegraph poles, being little more
than shelves, and the agent cOmmun-
icates orders to the engineer. The
poles are numbered i'm mile sections
from to 26, and the miles are mark
ed on the poles as il mile stones.
BY this means the engineers, who
keeps record of the condition of the
track, can report to the master me-
chanic at the end of the trip, or soon.
or, any defect within 100 feet by
naming the number of the pole and
section where work is needed. Tho
master mechanic has charge of main
tcnance of way, and having reports
by telegraph, as above stated, he al
once directs where work is to be
done. 1t is reported that this road il
to be extended to the old City OF
Mexico, and that offers of money
have been made from the owners OF
rich mines in that remote region
Thus we may expect that this road.
now just commenced, will be extend.
ed TO the capital of the Montezumas
distanccsof over 1900 miles from
Denver. Its to be said, in addition
taat an extension of the narrow.
gauge northward has been surveyed
running through our town to con-
meet with the Union Pacific at Pine
Bluff. Co... n. Z. NJ.