Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-12
IN THE RAILWAY WORLD.
Items Gathered Along the Track
and Crosstics.

anu ONOSSNlCot
The Pullman Car Company tax case
will be beard before Judge McCay at At
lanta Friday.
The old rails are being taken up on the
Midland railway and are being laid on the
standard gauge between Apopka aud
LongwOod.
The notice of incorporation of the Hills
borO aud Manatee Railway Company Is
given in the Sanford Argus. 1t starts
from Sehner and runs through to Sara
Sofa.
The surveying corps of the CoviRgton
and Macon railroad is still engaged in
searching for good crossing over the Al
cOva river, and will probably make il at
a point between Whites factory and
Barnes Shoals.
There will be a railroad meeting held
in Chipley on May IA for the purpose OF
discussing the advIsability, and ways and
means OF securing the building OF the
Montgomery Southern road to and through
Chipley to st. Andrews Bay.
AS soon as the Florida Central railroad
track is changed TO the standard gauge
the Monticello branch will be laid with
steel rails. the route fenced in with wire,
the branch train removed, aud all trains
on the main line will run by that place.
NC RdllWdN W VI III says buC laws VI
Illinois, like the laws OF many other
States, bristle with provisions against at
tempts of strikers or any other person to
obstruct the free movement OF railway
trains, but they we're dead letter in the
late contest.
1t is required by law that every acct
dent on a railroad which is attended with
personal injury shall be reported to the
Connecticut railroad commissioners
within "a hours. The commissioners are
now looking into 81 cases in which acct
dents have been mentioned in the news
papers, but not reported to the commits
sioners.
A device for weighing trains when in
motion is beng tested in New Jersey. By
this invention electricity is made to record
the weights indicated upon scales or
steel-yards, tle application being speci-
ally designed for the weighing of freight
cars while in motion. 1t is said that with
this device properly applied to the scales
an accurate account can be kept Of the
weight of every car passing over them,
even at full speed.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and GeoT-
gia railroad has purchased a machine for
changing the gauge Of trucks. On Satur-
day one hundred and five pairs OF wheels
we're moved three inches closer together
operate the machine. The road is chang.
ing the gauge of it's cars at the rate of
twenty-One per day. A machine similar
to the one IN operation in the Atlanta
shops will be placed on car, so that it
may be moved from point to point on the
Georgia division.
Seven hundred different patterns of loco
motives are built in this country. A loco
motive builder says: "There is an erro-
neous impression prevalent abroad that
American locomotive builders build one
design of locomotives and then merely
duplicate It indefinitely; but the truth is
there is such a strong tendency among
American railway companies to adopt a
particular standard of their own suited to
their individual requirements that very
considerable proportion of the orders we
receive require that the locomotives be
built exactly in accordance with the CON-
pany's drawings and specifications"