Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-28
RAILWAY RECORD.
GENERAL AND PERSONAL

Work on the Meridian, ~Brookhaven and
Natchez railroad is progressing.
The Southern Carworks at Knoxville,
Tenn, have a capacity of ten box-cars per
day.
Raleigh, n. c., is to have a railroad car
factory. Accompany has been organized with
$4,000 capital.
The first train over the Arkansas branch
of the st. Louis and San Francisco road
reached Rogers May 10th.
Nine thousand cara have been ordered of
the different works in Pennsylvania, to be
used in the transportation of anthracite coal
this year.
The track OF the East Line and Red River
Narrow-gauge road was laid to Mckinney,
Tex, on the 18th. The road will be opened
for business from Mckinney to Jefferson,
about 200 miles, by Tune 1st.
October s, 1929, may be called the birth
day of the railway system, as having been
the day on which the locomotive trials were
commenced at Rain Hill, on the Liverpool
and Manchester railway. In 1880 twenty
United States.
The construction of a branch line of the
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern
road, from Newport, Ark, eighty-three miles
north of Little Rock, southeasterly to Mem
phis, Tenn, a distance of about seventy-fve
miles, is to be commenced at once and pushed
to an early completion. Steel rails and ma
terial are already under contract.
The agents of the Erlanger system recent
ly shipped to Selma, Ala, 200 tons of steel
rails to be used on the eventeen-mile gap of
the Cincinnati, Selma and Mobile railroad
between Greensboro, Ala, and Ackron, on
the Alabama and Great Southern railroad.
Four hundred tons had previously been
shipped for this line, and it is expected the
gap will be completed by July 1st, thus Civ
ing the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Pacific
railroad a through line o. their own from
Cincinnati to Selma, Ala.
The locomotive and one car of a train on
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad passed
over a little child who was sitting between
the rails on Tuesday morning. Then the
train was stopped, and the conductor crawled
under the car to collect the fragments. To
the establishment of everybody he presently
emerged with the child in his arms unin-
jured, except Tor a slight bruise on the fore
head, where the pilot of the locomotive had
struck him.. ALI the trainmen and passen-
gers insisted upon hugging the little fellow
before surrendering him to his father, who
stood by.
New York Indicator, 9th: at was re-
ported again yesterday that Mr.. Fink was to
accept the presidency of the Louisville and
Nashville. 1t will be remembered that Mr..
Fink was formerly connected with this road,
and the little matter of pride may have con-
siderable to do with his accepting the posi-
ton offered, and besides the commissioner
ship pays the neat little sum of so, 900 per
year. 1t would appear, from the constant
reference to Mr.. FIN by those interested in
the stock of the Louisville and Nashville,
that the pool had not, as yet, been able to
unload their holdings. One thing is certain,
the road will have to abandon any further
dividends for some time to come"
The Vicksburg and Meridian railroad, at
present a part of the Erlanger system, was
chartered in its beginning December 10,
1881, as the Clinton and Vicksburg railroad.
1t was then supposed Clinton would be made
the capital of the State of Mississippi, in
stead of Jackson. The road progressed 30
slowly that it was not until May, 1910, it
was finished from Vicksburg to Clinton.
Jackson several years previously having
been made the capital of the State by a
majority OF one vote, S250,000 was borrowed
in 1910 from the United States Bank of
Philadelphia, and the road was completed
to Jackson during the same year. In 1914
the Vicksburg and Jackson road, forty-six
miles long, earned 1886 per mile, and is
reported to have been more profitable than
any other Southern railroad, of which
there were then only nine in opera
ton, and only ten in the North longer
than the Vicksburg and Jackson. The
road from Vicksburg to Jackson, Miss,
having been purchased in 1856 by a party
OF Vicksburg gentlemen, who subsequently
| purchased the Southern railroad, from Jack
son to Meridian, the two roads were CONSOLE
dated and merged into the Vicksburg and
Meridian railroad. We have not the date of
the completion of the road from Jackson to
Brandon, twelve miles, but the road from
Brandon TO Meridian was commenced jan
uary l, 1857, and completed so that trains
ran over it June 3, 1861. The above items
are condensed from an interesting article
| from the New Orleans Times Democrat.