The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08
MISCELLANEOUS Notes.

The danger point of the New York, Buffalo &
West Shore road passing into the hands of a re-
ceiver is said to have been passed.
The Northwestern Railway Company. of Lon
don, is having a number of coaches built at its
works at Darlington, the frame work of which is
steel
Inventors of air-brakes are becoming as num-
erous as car-coupler inventors. The Westing-
house Air brake Company have got the cream on
this invention.
The Southern Pacific, Texas Pacific, and To
peka 65 Sante Fe have perfected arrangements
for a continuance of the pool on southern New
Mexico and eastern Arizona business.
The Southwestern freight pool has revoked its
special rates on Memphis and Louisville business
in consideration of the withdrawal of the Kansas
City, Springfield g. Memphis road from compe-
titiOn in New York business.
The New York, West Shore & Buffalo road
have Just closed contract for 1000 standard
box-cars. at cost of $780, 000 They are to be
built by The Michigan City Car Works and are to
be run in the interests of the new West Shore
fastfreight line.
The Paterson IN. j. Daily Guardian gives the
locomotive production in three locomotive works
there for January to have been thirty-two loco
motives-siXteen from the Rogers Works. eight
of which went to South America. The Cooke
Works shipped ten, the Grant Works six to the
N. Y, p & o.
The cutting of freight rates fromSBoston to
Western points is active again. The Boston
Journal says: Commissioner Fink will, of
course, deny the fact for few months, as usual
and then we shall have the usual farce of a set
Element, when the commissioner will announce
that all is serene in the pool once more"
The New York Central people are about to en-
large the Forty second-street station in New
York city by building a large addition on the east
side The station, large it is, has for some
years been too small for its purposes. Quite
often the trains for this city are seriously de-
layed in leaving and in entering New York
simply because of the troubles at the station
there
The St Louis Railway Register says: Tt is
humiliating to notice the present disposition of
many newspapers and politicians to curry popu-
lar favor by abusing the railways. Fair criticism
and just discussion of the questions in issue
are never Objectionable, but it is simply disgust
ing to read the low filings and scurrlous accusa-
tionS which are now so commonly found in the
papers of the day.
The Dickson Locomotive Works are building
two of the largest locomotive irebox boilers
ever made, being L, 900 horse power each. These
boilers are made of steel plate GIG inch thick
Each boiler will contain 1879 3-inch diameter Ian
welded tubes sixteen feet long. These boilers,
when complete, will weigh siXty-one tons each,
and will be used to work the mammoth ma
chinery of the Calumet g. Hecla Mining Com
pany
A patent was recently issued to George West
inghouse, jr., for an arrangement of the hose
pipes between the cars in connection with the
Westinghouse automatic brake, the use of which
viii prevent the application of the brakes by the
bursting of any one hose. With this arrange
ment trains will never be stopped by the burst
ing of hose, because it requires two pieces of
hose between the cars to burst at the same time
to empty the brake pipe
After March l, the express trains Of the Balt
more g. Ohio railroad will run Mann beudoir
cars, and, after March 10, the limited express
trains of the Pennsylvania railroad will do the
same These cars will be attached to the trains
in connection with the Pullman cars, the charge
being rs per cent. more on the Mann than the
Pullman. The Mann cars have been tried on
the Boston & Albany. in the New York service,
and they were recently withdrawn for lack of
patronage.