The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-25
IRON WAYS.

II is now reported that Gould, instead Of
coye,ing the Baltimore and Ohio railroad IL
depending on the Western Canada and the
| LsCkNwana extension for northern outlet
and on tho Jersey Central for southern
outlet.
A company has boon organized in Danver
to construct IN eighteen'inch gauge railroad
from Lhst city to Golden. The seats in the
passenger cars will be in the center OF She
oar, longthwife, and the passengers will sit
with their backs TO each other, as in the
Irish launiing car. Eight-ton locomotives
will be employed. While Ia inches is very
narrow gauge, it IS not tho uarroweSt in op.
ors,ion. There is ton-inch gauge road in
the east which has been operated successfully
for several years.
The indicator of the 18th, gives ihe fol-
| lowing railroad news: The track from Shreyeu
port, of the Texas and Pacific, will be laid to
MarthavilIe AMI the boarding car moved
down to-day This is the first station in Natch>
itochos PARISH. On Saturday next the road
will DO completed and trains running to
Roboline, the second station and fifteen
miles west Of this place. From below track
ia laid TO Cotile and advancing rapidly.
As tho grading from Uotle TO Robelne sta,
tion was completed by Major Green several
yests since, the construction of that division
will bs rapid, bridging only causing DELAY.
Ga or about tho 10Th Of October the road
will be completed and trains running through
from Shreveport and Alexandria. Tho grad
ing on the Tap Road from this point L
Prudhommo's station will begin on tho IRA,
OF October and DO completed before No
vember lst, which will insure us oil raj
communication, 10 all points north anC
south on or before the frat of December
Trains are running II miles below Alexsu,
dria and communication will be had direct
to New Orleans within sixty days at most.
At tho Grant locomotives works at Pster
son, N. D., has Just boon completed anothe,
tho sscond-of the Fontaino locomotive
engines, They arc peculiarly constructed
and can attain great degree of speed, the
fts, having made ninety miles an hour. The
second machine Is 10 DO tested on tho New
Y orll, Lake Erie and Western rRilaoad fol
two weeks before II Is shipped 10 It's doslina.
ton, Tho popularity Of the engine is that
il has two sets of driving wheels ono on tor
Of the other. The main driving wheels il
tho Fontano engines are secured to an Gle.
waited axle above the boiler. and running IN
boxes supported by asuitably brOced frame
the cylinder aud slides being set obliauol,
anl in q diagonal line TO tho ass of the driy,
ing sylo The driving wheels arc OF the
usual construction, but do not touch the
rails. Resting on the rails are other drlvinr
whools of the Same size al the upper ones
with which ,here is a FRACTIONAL coalsct
There being no resistance, whom motion |,
communicated TO tho upper wheels tho sam,
motion 10 transmitted 10 tho lower wheels
by friction. The lower wheels are cons,ruc.
ted with two irosds, the parinhery restinG
upon tho rails, and tho other supporting Ia,
upper wheels. Tho upper wheals are seven
ty-two inches and tho lower seventy inche
In diameter, and tho smaller tread of III,
latter Is lfty.six inchea In diameter. To pre-.
ven. alipping an air pump is employed
which is operated from tho cab and which
sets on system Of leavers, by means o
which tho fractional contact between IA,
upper and lower drivers Is diminished or in
ruascd nc occasion may require, withou
isturbiug the bearing Of tho lower wheel
on tho rails. The engine 10 also provide,
with an equsliEing truck, so as always TO pre-
seivs the bearing on tho rail.
Considerable interest Is being mspiieste
Of Lave 90 70 what the tangible effects of N