The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-10
Local Notes.

The five western roads last week brought into
this station 4,3Ol loaded cars.
The c., L, st. L. g. c. gathered up last week on
their own system pa carloads of live stock.
Trains of the Vandalia will be running regular
ly as far north as Plymouth with the coming in
OF the new year.
The vandalia last week brought into Indian
apolis 2o4 carloads OF live stock and 493 car
loads of block coal
The Indiana, Bloomington & Western COM
pany to-day commence to transfer their through
business over the Belt road.
The Vandalia people will occupy their new de-
pot at Logansport to-day. The building cost
$4,000, and is really a fine and convenient struc-
ture, ii is stated.
The five roads running east in the month of
November forwarded from indianapolis proper
32,599 tons of through freights. Tonnage for
warded by the L, B. IL W. is not reported to the
indianapolis Eastbound Freight Association.
The Indiana, Bloomington & Western people
last week received from the Indianapolis Car
Works fifty coal cars, 10000 pounds capacity,
and will receive twenty-five more this morning,
on an order for 300 coal cars to be delivered
this month.
The Kankakee & Seneca division of the c..
l., ST. L. d q. system. last week, handled 557
cars, which was the largest movement over this
division since it was opened for traffic, and the
future of the K. & s. the officials of the road
look upon as being exceedingly promising.
The transfer line of the Vandalia and Chi
cagO St. Louis & Pittsburg roads over the Belt
road is-working very nicely. W. MeGinnis has
been appointed line agent andthe movement of
cars systtmatized so that there is no delay of
trains. The liueis worked mutually by the TWO
companies. The expenses are pro rated,
The management of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
& Dayton lines lind the double track between
Hamtl ton and Cincinnati to be of great value TO
them in the movement of trains. Instead of
being an hour and quarter or more getting
indianapolis trains into Cincinnati from Hamil-
ton, they run them through In forty-tive to fifty
minutes.
superintendent Bender. of the Kentucky Cen
trail, states that the trackaYers on the extension
are within seven miles of Livingston, and that
by March they will have trains running to Knox
vile, Tenn. Last month The Kentucky Central
earned sd, 900 more than in November, 1882,
which fact is complimentary to the management
most Southern roads last month showed q de-
crease in earnings.
On Saturday morning last. engine No. 10. on
the c., l., st, L. & G. road, hauled eight cars,
three of them Pullman cars, from the Belt road,
Indianapolis, TO the slOwing-up point In the
city limits of Cincinnati, in two hours and forty
SIX minutes. The distance run was oS q mi les,
and the time used to make stops is to be deduct
ed. Seventy-three Is one of the engines re-
GENTLY received from the Mcqueen locomotive
works.
c. J.,Hepburn, receiver of the Indianapolis &
Evansville Straight-line, on Saturday sent an in
demnity bond to Evansville and ordered the
proper parties to at once condemn the right OF
way TO cross the track of the Louisville, Evans
vile & st. Louis Airline at Oakland City, and
within the next fOrty-eIght hours, doubtless,
trains of the Straightne will be running he
tween Evansville and Washington on the Ohio
d Mississippi road.
The Illinois Central people are treating the
Cincinnati, Indianapolis, st. Louis S Chicago
company rather shabb1ly as regards New Or
leans. business. The c., l., st. L. 81 c. people
claim that with the Cincinnati Southern, which
is now open TO New Orleans they have as good
line as the Illinois Central yet the c.. t. st. L.
@& C. fs not allowed to take pound of freight
Central will deliver any business'the c., L, st.
L. & @. may bring north for Chicago.