Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-03-26
RAILROAD MATTERS.

The Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and West |
ern will this year for the first time show |
some profit for the bondholders.
The Vermont Construction company in |
St. Adams has taken contract for an |
iron railroad bridge at Woburn Mass |
for the Boston and Lowell road.
a new car wheel has made its appear |
ance, from the works of Fred krupp, |
Essen, Germany. The tire is forged steel, !
with wrpught-iron coil disc centre, the |
two parts being welded together form u
perfect indestructible wheel in one piece
About 10000 are now in use in Europe.
The Bennington and Rutland railway
folks expect to lay 100 tons of new steel
rails this spring and the work has already
begun in the section at Arlington. The
road is divided into sections of about five
miles each, and only one of these is en-
trely laid with steel rails, while the 9th
ers have from one to two miles of them.
The Southern railroads have an i'm
mense undertaking on hand, which they
intend to carry out The last day of May
and the first day of June. 1t is nothing
less than to change the gauge ON 1900
miles of road, from five feet to a uniform
standard of four feet and nine inches, so
/ rs to correspond with the system of the
Northern roads and make the rolling stock
of the two systems transferable. This i
half an inch wider than the Northern
guage, but sufficiently near for all practi-
cal purposes.
| At ottawa it is stated that the Grand
! Trunk Railroad company is making ar
engagements to begin at an early date the
construction of a line from Peterborough
| to that city on the survey of the old To-
| rOuto and Ottawa road. Such line, run
| ming III connection with the Canada and
Atlantic road, would be shorter than the
| Canadian Pacific line between Toronto
| and Montreal, even with the air line from
Smiths Falls finished.
Mr. George Pippen, for 90 years the
Montreal freight agent of the Central
| Vermont railroad, who has been trans
! terred at his own request, to the office in
| Boston, where his family resides, was
recently presented by his office staff
with handsome morocco covered
armchair with the hope that it may
remind YOU of friends who, though
distant, Will ever cherish pleasant recol-
/ lectlons OF Kind, courteous gentleman
and honest man Prominent merchants
| also dropped in, until finally the meeting
| eliminated in the presentation of testi-
monial letter, and something still more
substantial Il purse of money. Mr..
the esteem SO unanimously made mani
| fest. He cordially recommended his sue
cessor, Mr.. f. H. Brown.
Mr.. Daniel Fulford of St Johnsbury a
Lake road engineer, was the victim of a
severe accident the other day. He was at
] NOlk Oll HIS lOCOIlOllNt, Nntll ull ttCl-
dental discharge OF steam sCalded one
hand SO severely he has been lald up ever
since. He had hardly recovered from his
former accident, by which he nearly lost
his life.
Mr.. Brady, the foreman for the contrac-
tors of the Rome, Watertown and Ogdens-
burg railroad extension from Norwood, y.
y, to Massena, is at Norwood ready to be
gin work says the Ogdensburg JOUrHul.
| This project has now assumed a shape
that is certain to result in the building of
the road at the earliest practical date.
The contract is to finish it by the first of
August.
Thomas Neenan who has been in the
employ of the Central Vermont railroad
company for 30 years during the last II
years being foreman of the st. Adams
yard and foreman of laying steel rails at
various places along the line has resigned
his position to accept a good offer and
promotion in Florida. He left for his
new field Wednesday,