Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-05
IN THE RAILWAY WORLD.
Gossip Gathered along the Track and
Crossties

Crossties.
The Louisville and Nashville railroad
shows an increase Of AS loaded cars,
from Cincinnati 10 the South. July, 1855,
over the same months of last year.
A remarkable story comes from Staten
island. The heat caused the rails on the
Shore railroad to expand so that one of
them was bent into complete oval, and
the cars had to wait until another had
been substituted for 1t.
Tourist travel this year seems to flow
eastward rather than westward, that to
the lakes and the st. Lawrence river and
New England resorts sho wing large in
crease. Yellowstone park about holds its
own, while Colorado and California travel
has fallen off perceptibly.
A party of Charleston ladies and gem
tlemen contemplate an excursion on Sun
day. They will leave there early on Sun
day morning. They will attend mass al
the Cathedral and will spend the rest Of
the day in seeing the city, not forgetting
an inspection of the Neca, and returning
home on sunday night. The party pro-
pose to charter a special car and TO carry
refreshments with them.
A Central railroad correspondent,
abiding to the notice in Sundays NEWS
OF the two new locomotives turned out of
the CentraPs shops in this city last week,
asks that in common with Messrs. Haupt
and Collins. credit be given to other em-
plOycs of the department who aided in
their building, and even the apprentice
boys, who take natural pride in the part
they had in the completion Of the work.
An air balloon railway is about to be con-
structed on the Gaisberg, near SalZburg,
in Austria, a mountain of no great height,
but offering a magnificent view over the
beautiful environs of the town. The bal
loon, which Will have gr0Oved wheels on
one side Of its car, Will ascend n perpen-
dicular line or rails, constructed on the
principle of the wire rope railway in
vented years ago for the Right, but never
realized.
The weight now allowed for free bag
gage and the charges for excess baggage
by the English railway companies are as
follows: First-class, 100 pounds; second
class, 100 pounds; third class, 60 pounds.
and above these weights the companies
will charge for distances above 300 miles,
penny per pound; $50 to 300 miles, q
penny per pound; so to 100 miles, = pen
ny per pound; under 90 miles, 4 penny
per pound.
Work on the EutawYille CSC. )railroad
Is progressing in such a rapid and ener-
getlc manner that it is likely the read will
have been constructed somewhat earlier
than the most sanguine expectations OF
the directors had anticipated. The first
shipments of steel rails to be used on the
road has been made by the schooner
Emma l.. Cottirgham, from Philadelphia.
Her cargo will contain about y miles Of
rail, and is expected to arrive in Charles
ton within the next day or two. A loco
motive was also shipped by rail from the
Baldwin locomotive works. Philadelphia,
on July 80, which is expected daily. From
the indications it is extremely probable
that the road will be in running order by
Sept. 1. The road, as is well known, will
run through one of the most fertile sec
tiOns of South Carolina, and will open up
a very desirable and most likely profitable
volume of enterprise and country,