The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-07-06
OUR NORTHERN E CONNEC-
TON.
WHAT NARROW 6UAGE ROADS
CAN DO.

/ ence to the railroad from TINS poIht
! to Cumberland Gap. We cannot.
now even imagine what this country
will be ten years hence with a
G through connection from the north
! west to the seaboard' by this route.
E Railroads always develop the resour-
ees of country Let the connec-
ton through Knoxville be made, and
this one also. Then, if the Tennes
t see and Pacific is built, as it most as
suredly will be, we confidently believe
,, in three years, we will have compel
ing lines traversing our country in
every direction. We have coun-
: try capable of supporting teeming
+ population. Not one tenth Of the
agricultural capacity of our section
is developed; the manufacturing in
terests are in their infancy and the
mineral resources are just beginning
to be known. No word that will
) advance the building of railroads
should be left unsaid Let our coun-
try be made what God intends.
Very appropos to the subject and
encouraging to the friends of the
Morristown, Cumberland Gap and
Ohio railroad are the facts presented
below. It seems that some ofthe broad
guage railroad people who have
been sneering at the Toledo, Del
phos and Burlington Gas it is con-
sidered the correct thing to do, in
someplaces, atall narrow gauge) rail
road baverun against some hard facts
which rather surprised them. The
Marion 1ndiana) Chronicle thus
tells the story:
a few days since Mr.. d. Laufman
loaded five narrow gauge cars with
| spOkes at his factory at Van Buren,
They were run to this point and
thence shipped on the G. W. & NJ,
for Chicago, we believe. They were
reloaded into five w. C. & NJ cars
| and run to Goshen, where they were
turned over to the Lake Shore and
M. S. (broad gauge for their desti-
nation.
The Lake Shore agent, seeing
they were big loads, ordered them
weighed, when the five cars showed
that they had the following loads on
them; $4,000, 10000, $4,000, 3d.
900 and $4,000. The Lake Shore
man then refused to permit the cars
to pass on his road, with such loads
and ordered the three heaviest mar !
row gauge loads divided into four
standard guage loads. The five mar ,
row guage ears carried from Van ,
Buren, to this point IA, Is, 16, 163 '
tons respectively. How will that !
do for '.wheelbarrow road 2"
Since the above shipment Mr..
Laufman made another in which he t
put 1000 spokes per car on the mar v
now gauge. Coming to this point /
for reshipment on the G. w. & NJ, b
(brOad gauge that company refus- a
ed to permit more than 5000 spokes t
per car loaded in its cars With d
these facts before them, we think
some individuals who have been
sneeringly referring to the narrow r
gauge line as a "wheelbarrow road" il
will now shut up. t.
Maj. R. g. Butler, general mana f
ger ofthe Toledo, Delphos and Bur G.
ington Narrow Gauge road, which C
IS to extend from Toledo to Cincin-
nati, and on to st. Louis, gives still el
iurther and more important informa- tt
ion on the subject. He says: d
The Toledo, DeIphos and Burling- r.
on railroad was formally opened ST
or business from Toledo to Warren, in
nd, distance of 1876 miles, on De es
,ember 10, last The line for this n,
distance was composed in part of
hree or more roads projected and
by farmers who were or
thoroughly imbued with narrow III
gauge doctrines, and who construct ST.
ID and equipped their roads with as wi
title outlay as possible, and these te
ines were merged in and composed W,
art of our system. Since the III
pening of our road we have equip DO
d it with some six hundred freight in
ars, any one of which has a safe tn
capacity of 15 tons, and in
many instances they have been
padded to IS tons. These cars are let
with ease, safety and ph
ispatch in trains of from twenty to co
nirty five loaded cars Our mini wi
lum car load is twelve tons, and in Tia
o case do we object to fifteen tons ba
} the car. In one instance we trans tire
Orted four Of our cars, loaded IS we
ms each, to point of transfer with CHI
ne of our great roads, and when giI
he freight was delivered, five stan
ard cars were employed to receive
le contents of these four narrow ris
luge cars. Thus it will be seen heI
lat the statement of your CORES foil
to the carrying and haul the
g capacity of narrsw gauge cars Jol
I'd locomotives (upon which state Fa
ent 1t will be observed he rests all son
his arguments against the narrow DiC
auge system) is entirely inaccurate, r.
r, instead of our ears having carry f.
G capacity Of but s tons, they are Wi
to and do carry 10 tons J.
.ch, and instead of our engines Ser
lving capacity of but Is loaded
RS they haul 35-and ] can pro-
reports showing them of (
have hauled Al | think | have Der
the fallacy of tho idea shil
at on narrow gauge roads more The
9quent trips must be made to trio
lnsport equal TONNAGE than on see
e standard gauge roads. at @