The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-10-18

there are over 100 bridges In the Illinois divi-
sion of the Wabash railroad.
A Great Northern railroad train, with sn
s.foot single driver outdde cylinder engine,
lately ran from Leeds TO London, l>eN miles IN
three hours-Sixy-two miles All hour.
The pennsy lysnia road ran = car frog New
York 10 Newark. ls hged by electric lamps fed by
fsure aecumalators, the experiment proving a
There are S2S6 men employed in tho construe-
ton OF the Northern Pacific railroad The men
are distributed over thirty six miles OF country,
and 4, requires six large beef cattle and lsN
pounds OF Hour daily W supply tnein with iood,
The shore Line express on the Boston 4
Providence railroad Is acquiring reputation
| for speed. A Boston journal reporter MAS give
| seat in the engine cab the Other day on the
promise OF being shown some fast uIae, and
noted the fact that eight miles were made O.
minutes.
Railroad building in Minnesota in the past
| five years has been carried TO wonderful eX-
| tent until to-day Minneapolis has nearly half u
| score OF roads centcring there, and more com,
\ ing. Among those prominent are tho Chicago.
| Milwaukee & ST Paul. Chicago, St Paul MINNIE
| apolis " Omaha Northern Pacific. and last but
| by no means least Is the st Paul Minneapolis
4 Manitoba with two trunk lines, each reaching
| nearly 80 miles into that garden OF the great
| northwest the Red river valley country.
| new underground railway Is proposed for
| Paris. 10 cost about sS000OOOl The central
station is TO be al the Palace dc la Bourse In
all, the lines will DO II miles, with many stop.
Plug places along the main route and Il.
| branches, All of the waiting rooms viii he
above ground For any distance tirst.class pas
Sengers will be charged not more than ten cents
and second class not more than four cents
Mr. Huntington. of southern Pacific and Cen
trail Pacific notoriety. in his hght with tn,
| Gould system of roads, now threatens to built
, u new line from a connection with his Chesa
peake Ohio northwest 10 the line of the North
ern Pacific at Bismarck This is Alarge project
but for the purpose of q bulldozsr is easily &C
comphshed-on paper, IL is by no means prob
able that the road will be built as talked Of b,
the dummies whom the Huntington CLIQUE sc
upa few days since at Quincy. Illinois undo
the name OF the Great Continental railway com
pany. The object is 50 transparent that no on
will take much stock In IT,
The ST. Louis Bridge and Tunnel company 1
| 70 equip the road from East ST. Louis 10 tn
| Union depot with the electrical block slgnalin
| apparatus, by the interloeking system tn
switches on the east side will be manipulate
from central tower containing seventy Isl
o | lovers eaeh one of which is so constructe
p that IL moves either one or a dozen switches an
displays the proper signal OF safety or danger
- At Main street, St Louis. second tower will b
| built with twenty.four levers TO operate IN
70 tracks al the union depot yards and approache
The power employed WILDE hydraulic pressur,
Al the base Of each leyeris u cylinder of acoh,
and water TO prevent congealing. and ut oac
depression of the levers the huid IL force
e against projecting ann which moves the sil
nal and turns the switch Whenever required, Il
the use of the hydraulic system twice us mar
movements can be made in the same time
with the system in use on the Pennsyly snia ra
go road
The railway mileage OF Europe for the We
!, | WAS rs follows.