Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-02
improvements In the Central Prop
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ertY at Macon.
The following article from the Macon
Telegraph of yesterday in reference to the re-
Gently completed car works building of the
Central Railroad at that point will be read
with considerable interest at this time:
90 = The car works are now in full
operation, and both freight and passenger
cars are being rapidly turned out. The
works are putting into service new freight
cars to carry 40, 600 instead of the old IL 600
pound vehicles. Three or four combination
express and mail cars are in process of con-
struction. They are being fitted up In the
most substantial manner, and Will be SUI
perior to anything ever put upon the line.
The timber for four more lie at hand, and
only want of space prevents work upon
them being begun. A large force is buslly
engaged In putting higher trucks under the
old freight cars as fast as they come in.
This has been rendered necessary by the
plans upon which the Western cars are
built. They stand seven inches higher from
the ground than the Central. We learn
that President Wadley has always opposed
this change, believing that the nearer the
weight to the ground the easier it is pulled.
When the changes were begun, he remarked
to Mr.. Raoul: well, you all have beat me
on the car question, but II | had been
Younger would have fought 1t out He
would.
f'In the front of the car works there Is
some of the prettiest specimens Of work we
have ever seen. Two newly finished sleep
ers, built entirely in these works, stand
there. The outsides have a blush black
polish upon them equal to that on the finest
piano or buggy, while the insides, trimmed
with French walnut, butternut, cherry and
walnut, are marvels Of elegance. Every
Joint fit wi@h a precision and closeDess that
renders 1t almost invisible to the naked
eye. The arrangements are all ad-
mirable. In one end is the gentleman's
department, where double stands and cool
ers, closets, seats for smokers and adjusta-
BILE card table may be found. In the other
Is the ladies' department, fitted with equal
care and taste. A Baker heater, invisible to
the passenger, with its coils and lines of
pipe, preserves In winter a comfortable tenn
perature everywhere. Convenient lockers
complete the end arrangements. Between
the two departments are the elegant sleep
ing perths. Those two cars when complete
will cost together about SIS, 600.
beyond these car shops new building
has sprung up. 1t is the machine shop for
the car department. By its side an engine
room and forty horse power engine will be
nIaced to run the works. This will relieve
the pressure upon the machine shops. 1t is
for these improvements that the road re-
Gently obtained an encroachment upon
Seventh street. The new machine shop is
55xl55, and two stories in height.
"Passing out Of the yard. the reporter
came upon a neat car, just overhauled and
newly fitted. 1t was No. 80, car which,
twenty years since, was considered 80 me as
to warrant its being shipped out West to q
great fair for exhibition. 1t was too large,
however, to get through a tunnel on the
route. and was returned. The road would
scarcely ship it out now for exhibition.
'sThese works, and the Central Railroad
works generally-those enclosed In the yard
furnish employment to about six hundred
men, including engineers, 1remen and
wood passers. 1t is estimated that nearly
four thousand people are dependent upon
the works for sustenance. No other fact
could show the importance they possess"