The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-11-15
RAILROADS..

The rolling stock of the Wabash railroad
COMPANY consists OF 10. 316 freight cars and
1853 passenger coaches. ,oo,c,or
Mr.. g. b. Gray, late general passenger
agent. having severed his connection WIZ
the Houston & Texas Ceatral iaiisSa ~
Capt A. Faulkner has been apPoih'eu w
| fll that position.
The Texas & st. Louis railroad mpany
ba, placed a contract with the MISSOURI
| Car and Foundry company lot oVo poA GA o
also one with the Litchfield Car and Ma
chine company for 200 coal and loo po1
cars. ~,a,s .tooL of
! II is estimated that the worlds STOCK Oh
locomotives consists OF Oo'Ve 20 b 400 In
cars. 10000; freight cars, oVVoVo. Ine
canital invested in railways. when are IN
ali 400, 600 miles long, is "a 600 600 0oo. me
commerce of the seas ia carried DY II,oVo
steamers and 100000 sailing vessels, whose
tonnage amounts to over WOOO wv IONS.
The Texas & st. Louis railroad company
have ordered 600 freight cars ana thirsy
new locomotives, In adGlllou " 100
quantity of steel rails with whicn W en.Snu
their sidetracks and increase their tacllltles
for handling freight. The freight trains
running north over the road have lately
averaged thirty cars, loaded as general
rule with cotton. 60, p,,
The Nathrop cutoff, on the South Park
division of the Union Pacific railway VIII
be made four miles below Bnena Sisla' anu
ia intended not only to shorten the ROAD TO
Gupnison. but also to make direct con-
nection with the Lead vile line. In the line
of the cut.off ia the Rio Grande river a
bridge ia about to be built across 1t in Two
spans of $50 feet each. Travel over the
cutoff will begin about January l..
Articles of association OF the Arkansas
and White River Railroad company were
filed with the Secretary of State OF Arkansas
at Little Rock Tuesday. The proposed
route is from Rob Roy, on the ARKANSAS
river. to Prairie Landing, on Whlte river
The directors named are U. M. Neel, M u
Ball, G. Meyer, T. +. Burks ana ME- l.
Jones. g.,
The projected railooad from Manitcnn to
the summit of Pixies peak is to be p'i'lo as
rapidly as possible. According to the sur
vev of the routs which has been I'm 'iiy &C.
ce1ted. the road will be thirty. mics iong,
and the m aximum grade three hu ii ca iee'
To the mile. Many miles OF rai.f9ao are
now opened in Colorado over heavier sSahes
than that. During the last year about hVe
thousand persons have made the laoorious
ascent of Pixies peak by Tue narrow tTalI
which now affords the only access 10 the
summit and the projectors of the railroad
consider that fact sure guarantee oi b
r oh return from their investment. ;,
When the Shreveport road ~ done tne
Alabama svstem will have connection
with the Texas roads and new route VIII oe
opeped between that state ana cincinnati
This line, while not as short as either tne
one by way oithe ono Monnt misss or that the
Ionisville q Nashville has over its own line
and The Memphis g. Little Rock and con-
nections il still quite direct and Will douot
less secure a share of the business IL VIII
he operated more in the interest OF Clncin'
natl than any other. mi
Cincinnati Epquierer: The prooiem OF
safely transporting potatoes IN cars uuIlns
the winter. which has always been seri,
Gus one to many northern railroads, Is SAID
10 have been solved by the eastern ROAD
Hitherto the custom has been to place an
ordinsrv stove in the car and trust TO lick
Tor the maintenance of fee during the Jour-
new, The new box cars on the eastern roao
h. We an oil stove under tire centre oil the
car with an oil reservoir just above by
viii, h tbe ire is fed. An ingenious system
of Mines leads through the car, and by
patented kind OF valve the hot air IS kepl
continually circulating around the Blues
and roof. The potato dealers expect that
he general introduction OF tue car Will
materially decrease the price OF potatoes.
Mr. A. A. Talmage. general Transports
ton manager Of the Missouri faci1c rali'
road compauy, leased and operated lines,
under date OF November has issued the
following intensely practical circular re-
esrdinp Inc adoption of the central l9Oth
meridapl standard time on the lines OF mat
corporation representing some 6,OA miles
Ga aud alter 10 o'clock Q. m. ofNovember
is, n. 1883, all clocks in Offices on lines ui
road in this system, and watches OF all em-
pIoyes Excepting that portion oil the nn'
nest of Toysh, Texas, on the Texas q fs-
cific railway where he will continue the yel-
ferson CITY time), will be chaneed from the
present jefferson City time TO the STANDARD
time of the Goth meridian which Is nine
minutes faster than Jefferson City TINE.
Superiptendents will be particular TO cali
the attention OF their assistants 10 thls
change in order that tbeiI train-dispatcbefs
shall arrange for meeting points oil trains
on the line which may be effected oy the
change in setting watches and CLOCKS nlne
minui es ahead. -,,s
Train.dispatchers will require Al conouo-
tors and engineers on line al road TO answer
that hey have changed their time 10 cor.
resoopd with the new Standard and must
pet the same answer from all other coBdDc-
ors and engineers before they start out
rom the termini OF their district, section or
division.
Employees located at stations where there
IRE no teiegr ,ph Offices will get the correct
,taDdard time 81 soon as possible alter ~
o'clock a. m Of the 18th, from the conduc'
or Of first train passing that station.
|