The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-01-01
RAILWAY ITEMS.

Workmnn engaged on the Bszsman tun-
mel, on the msin line OF the Northern IA
cific road, digging from both ends, came
together at o'clock Saturday
morning before Christmas, an
onaninr being made at tina hour. The
syent ia nost important one for the North
ern Pacific road, as IL will do away with the
necessity of pulling trains over the noun
tain range at that point. This tunnel II
cut through the belt range OF the ROCKY
Mountains ~ poirt about Twelve hiies
east OF Bozsman, In Montana territory.
Work on the approaches was begun IN .ne
fall of 1881 and on the tunnel proper IN the
snripg of 1882. The tunnel is 6lO feet IN
lsnptn. seventeen feet wide and twenty-one
feet high in the center, being oval shaped
ut the t p.
An American technical journal on car
building, says: 1--WE do not expect to see
either passenger or fret ght cars built entire-
Iv of metal. In this climate there are many
serious objections to metallic siding, but pa
per compounds, or paper in some oil its
forms. will doubtless be used instead, al
though for many years wood, Tor IT'S cheap
ness, will hold its own against any otner
substances. We do not apprehend tina,
there will be any considerable dimcuIty III
usjpg substitutes for wood in covering cars,
hut SO long as the wood is the cheapest aud
sufficiently strong and durable to answer
the purpose, We must content ourselves
with specu alton in regard to the ~
ture. When straw-board can be 90,
tanned at anything like the price OF
wood the siding OF passenger cars at least
will be much better made Of paper than OF
wood The size OF the sheets, which are
easily obtaipable and the firinness with
which they can be fastened to the posts. are
some of the great advantages in It's favor.
We suppose, from what We have nesrd III
regard to straw-bosrd and straw iumoer'
L.. nal nv
the door around the corner and 70 the cen
fer OF the car, and reaching from window
siIls to The bottom, can be used to 1000 al,
ysntays. Such a construction would oil
course, greatly increase the Strength OF tne
car. aud would present several otner ma
ttrisi advantages.
assl aud wno recently took trip over the
E.v Orleans and Northeastern railroad
s.iI that when mid way the bridge said toa
he imagined that he was AT sea III psiacs
car Tne run from shore 10 shore, rs ~
timed IL. was made in thirteen minutes "
clnding two stops. The freight business
the new road has increased w sucn au ~.
\ tepr, thai twenty engiues nave peen SCI"
IRON, tbs Cincinnati southern rad.
A wri,,r a New York Paper SAT-: -
has occurrsd 10 me thst If the Northern ia
cslic railroad could have been oompietet
without any mishBp there might nav
arisen among the peop'o suno ~, 4,
against the land grant aud the gut. pu. u
Isis catastrophe, which is but momentsry
the people see thai to work out INC p. r;,,
lem Of these railroade. even WIN
a great endowment, - no ma't''
OF ioy or ereat zee mpense. IT.,
The New OrieArs Picayuns says; IN
Texas & Pacific RAJ way Company are ~. :
inr no tne grounds Ia Toe vicinity oil ,nei
,reieht depot on the La e, bstseen lhal
ID rarpschore str@s.s making ersn
N and q now possiot - walk dry sno'
e.,rn the rsight depot toiAs isfry whsrl
- In We svAther. WuR ca he Clouds
49, aep,,. witch was Undermined las
: summer ~ ,he river ,a:,s = a. sand sui
Before @ssIs ' Gsuidssor fr s s,sss will
IVY nv ~ fsndeT the bsnk secufc from th
s,,ehments Of ms river. A. pressn