The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-06-25
RAILROAD ITEMS.


The n. K. + T., traffic for the second
week of May was $63. $50, an increase
of HI7.655.
It 10 said tAaG an attempt will soon be
made TO run trains from New York to
Philadelphia in one hour.
The track of the Texas Pacific rail
road has been put down at the rate of
mile and half day for the past two
weeks.
L. w. TOwne, assumed the duties of
gener1l superintendent of the X. c., Fort
Scott & Gulf and X. c., L. s. S. roads
June LIST.
After several months of deliberation
the Union Pacific folks have decided to
locate their extensive new shops at Sid
ney. Nebraska
The Sedalia division OF the Central
Branch of the Union Pacific is COM
plcted 70 the state line. The state line
station Is named Talmage.
Peter Ryan, recently employed on the
Choctaw division of the N. (. & T., as
. freight brakeman, died ct Burlington,
Iowa, Nay %, of dropsy of the heart.
The machinists in the shops of the
Chicago. Burlington s. Quincy road,
q Aurora, Illinois. recently built loco;
motive complete in the short space Of
nine days.
4 Tennessee railroad company has
elected lady treasurer TO the road. The
preSldept Of the road is q widower, owns
. large per cent Of the stock of the road,
aud 10 an earnest defender of woman's
rights.
4 brakeman on the Piqua road, the
Inventor Of lantern which can be in
staRtly changed from one color TO another,
has won his suit in . contest case at
WashingtOn, and has been offered So 600
for his invention.
The distance from San Francisco TO
Galveston by the lines of railroad now
progressing IL figured as follows: From
Ban Francisco 70 FL Paso, by way of
LAthrOp, 1,269 miles; from Ell Paso to
San Antonio, $50 miles, and from San
Antonio TO Galveston, 264 miles-making
,1o8 miles.
OGacials of the express companies
state that their business for May was
about 10 per cent heavier this year than
In the corresponding month in 1879, and
that their earnings for the i've months
ending Nay 81 are fully 20 per cent IN
eXceas Of those for the corresponding
period in 1879.
A Pennsylvania roaiIroad official states
that the passenger traffic over the Penn
sylVanIa railroad is simply immense at
present. Every through train is run in
two and three sections, requiring the
Screws" to redouhled exertions and me-
cessitating the employment Of new men
and the promotion of freight train men
" the passenger department
The probability is very great that an
underground railway is 10 be built in
New York from the Battery to the Har-
lem river. The only question is one of
capital, and there is good reason for be-
lieving that all that il desired may be
hAd In the foreign market. The estimat-
Cd cost Of the work is g, OO0, 900 q mile.
The tunnel will be from six 10 eight feet
below the surface, well lighted and ven-
tilated, with convenient depOts. Trains
will Be run ~ high rate Of speed, and
the fare will be bus I've cents.
Tie Baltimore q Ohio people, finding
that their shortening up of the running
time two weeks ago hiss been beaten by
PennSylVania roads, they, on last Sun
day, al ortened their running times one
hour and q half more, thus making the
same time between st. Louis and eastern
cities - their competitor. The OHIO
1 = Mississippi road, 10 make the connec.
tiOn, are obliged 70 shorten up fifty min.
utes between 81. Louis and Cincinnati,
notwithstanding that they are now max.
1 ing remarkably fast UNDERMINING $40
miles In nine hours.
The Railway Age Pnhliahing Com.
pany will shortly issue Q book written
b. =. W. KiFkwood, on railway con
glTuctioa end some Of the items Of cost
This Sogk win show . summary Of the
lpgineipal items required for the opera
tioa Of 100 miles Of an average single
ltraek q road. and affords 3 fair indica
ton 81 the magnitude Of disbursement
for purposes Of railway Construction
He states The average plan in the United
States 70 be 30 locomotives, is passen
lgeE cars. s special cars, 495 freieh
icass. In addition to these, there are re
Ipased 70 be Is depots, repair shop.
ITOund houses, 4 turntables. 80 switcheu
10 frog. 80. 900 eFoss-ties, 20. 400 splice
} {. 100 Kegs Of spikes, 140,6O0 bolts AM
/. nuts and The same number of washer
ASA 900 feet Of fence material. An,
II ,57e tons Of sixty. pound iron or stee
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