The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-15

railroad from Ell Paso to White Oaks. 1t
will be q narrow-gauge.
The Wisconsin Central road will on Mon
day send cut party of one hundred men
10 survey route from Milwaukee to
Tucson people are agitatiug the question
OF building q narrow gauge road into the
aims.
The Richmond & Danville system has
attracted considerable attention of late.
The original road was but 40 miles long.
1t has bought, leased and secured control
OF different lines, until il now operates
2,05S miles of road.
Rail communication on the northwestern
division of the Nashville, Chattanooga &
81. Louis railway, between Johnsonville and
Camden, has been restored. The railroad
has been under water from the Tennessee
river for the past three weeks.
The Southern Pacific track is being laid
at the rate of three miles per day. The
graders keep just ahead of the track. 1t
has reached its 225th mile east of Ei Paso. =
The Baltimore 4 Ohio railroad company
recently constructed a large trestle-work
near Braddocks, Pennsylvania, in one
night. The idea was to prevent the new
line proposed by Mr. Vanderbilt, and known
as the Pittsburg Il Youghiogheny, from
building on that side of the Youghiogheny
river, and securing freight traffic from the
Edgar Thompson steel works and McKees-
port.
The Bradford extension of the Erie rail
road will cross ravine uear the top Of tho
Allegheny mountains on trestle over 1000
feet long, and great part of the way 800
feet high. This is said to be the highest
railroad bridge in the world. 1t is to be of
iron, placed in twenty-five spans. The
trestle will be ITO feet wide at the base and
twelve feet at the top, The cost is said to
be 100000.
Again it has been proved by NJ. l.. Bacle
that low temperature has very little to do
with the fracture Of railroad tires. Other
things being equal the tires are as strong
IN severe frost as when the temperature is
normal. But low temperature increases
the rigidity of the road and its inequalities
and so renders the shocks received by the
tires very violent.
Work on the Hudson river tunnel is
greatly hindered by the loose, sandy soil
upon which the caisson rests, and in which
sundry. iresh-water springs have been dis
covered, On the Jersey side of the river
the work in the south tunnel has been
stopped, and the r-en are now employed
building heavy bulkhead at the extreme
about one hundred feet beyond the south
tunnel, brick building is in the course
of construction, and as soon as thi:
il completed the air-pressure will be re
moved. The progress of this great under
taking is necessarily slow.
The New York Graphic says: at is sale
that about 10000 shares of American rail
way stocks have been sent here from
Europe within the last few weeks for sale
and most of them are in 10-share lots. A
prominent London clearinghouse il
lower Wall street, it is said, ha'
received lately nearly 100000 shares
! in this shape of Lake Shore. New
York Central, Illinois Central, and Wabash
! preferred, a large proportion OF which ha
been sold out here. The Lake Shore stock
some 1000 shares, was borrowed for deliv
cry, but the certificates will probably be de
livered as soon as transferred into 100. shar
certificates"
Notwithstanding the Pennsylvania rail
road company in its last annual statement
reported its ownership of about 1000 loco
motives, and has since that time built owe
| 100 more at its own shops, the compan,
| is badly pressed at present for locomotiv
service. The Baldwin works can furnisl
none until September next, being presse,
with previous contracts, and the first cos
and added duties make II too costly to i'm
port them. Proposals for the construction
of fifty new engines have been invited re
Gently and will be acted upon in few days
Meanwhile the shops at Altoona are bein
rushed with work, and their facilities are he
ing enlarged, and the F. q u. shops at Re
novo are also being brought into requis
ton to relieve the very healthy deman
that is pressing the company.
fREIGHTS.
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