The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-18
NIiscellaneous Notes.

It is announced on reliable authority that the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe will take full
charge of the Atlantic & Pacific on the 1st of
August.
ographical Dictionary which will comprise
about 500 pages of fine type. containing the
names Of some 4, 600 railway officers.
The Grand Trunk people have under consid-
Grafton project to construct tunnel under the
st. Clair river, about one and half mile below
with the United States. An expert named Mr..
William Ward has been engaged TO make the
preliminary tests.
In recent paper before the Iron and Steel In
stitute of Great Britain, on Iron and Steel
Permanent Way" Mr.. Walter r. Browne stated
with confidence that the corrosionof the iron
seepers was insignificant, that the elasticity Of
the road-bed was perfectly satisfactory, and that
although the cennexien of the rails to the sleep
ers had proved matter Of some difficulty, sat
isfactory results had at last been obtained.
There are three rival schemes fer a railway to
connect Russia in Europe andSiberia The first
is for line from Nishni Novgorod through Ka-
zan and ending in a temporary terminus at
Ekaterinburg; the second from Samara to Ekat-
erinburg, via Ufa the third land least favored),
from somepoint of the Morshan Sizyran railway,
through Tetushka, to Ekaterinburg. The Nishni
Noygorod route has twice been approved by i'm
perial ukase.
Aside from the main line which the Canadian
Pacific is constructing from Montreal to the Pa
cifc ocean, the company will next week open
its new line between Montreal and Toronto for
active traffic. From Toronto west the Canadian
Pacific controls a connection with the Michigan
Central, and has made traffic arrangements
with the Vanderbilt lines, which gives the sCana-
dian Pacific although connection between Mon
treal and Chicago, IN active competition with
the Grand Trunk.
The last spike has been driven in the Vicks-
burg, Shreveport e Texas Pacific road, q part Of
the Erlanger system of roads This places Texas
and its 5000 miles Of railroad in direct commu-
nication, by way of Vicksbnrg, with Atlanta,
Cincinnati, Memphis, New Orleans, Louisville,
Nashville and all the cities of the Atlantic sea-
board; andfor Washington, New York, Boston and
points on the North Atlantic seaboard viii prob
ably make the shortest route by several hundreds
of miles from San Francisco, and from the City
of Mexico via Ell Paso and over the Mexican
Central
The Syracuse Herald says: taThe Oldest living
locomotive engineer in the United States is Mr.
w. w. Goodale, who is eighty years old and
lives with his daughter, Mrs. Barnett, in Harri-
son street. He drove spike team on the Balti-
more g Ohio railroad when the speedwas twelve
miles an hour He drove an engine called the
rHenry Clay" on what is now known as the
Pennsylvania Central road. His first engine on
the New York Central was 1.-THE Young Lion of
the West Mr.. Goodale was the man who
pulled the first train out of Buffalo on the Cen
trail road. He built snow pillow and cow
catcher for himself, and the old veteran ran on
the Long Island road when the schedule time
was thirty eight miles an hour