The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-12
Miscellaneous Notes.

Next spring the Chicago & West Michigan
management will take the preliminary step to
extend the line from Baldwin, Mich. its present
terminus on the Flint s. Pere Marquette road. to
Frankfort
facturers met a committee of the master car
builders at Harrisburg yesterday, and agreed to
furnish brakes for competitive trial to be made
at Burlington, Ia July Ii next.
Matters relating to the withdrawal of the Chi
cago & Northwestern from the Pacific Coast As
soclation WILL it is believed be amicably ar
ranged at the meeting of the pool members on Jan.
70. An additional percentage will, no doubt, be
granted to the Northwestern.
The reports that the Atchson, Topeka & Santa
Fe intends to make large additional OUTLAWS in
reaching the Pacific coast are regarded, in we'll
informed circles, unlikely. it now has very
fair arrangements for reaching the Pacific coast.
The facts are that newspaper rumors are very
cheap, but it costs money to build railroads, as
many corporations have learned to their sorrow.
contract has just been awarded to the
Roanoke machine works, of Virginia by the
New York New Haven 81 Hartford Railroad
Company for 500 freight cars, delivery to com
mence in February. About TWENTY-FIVE other
car-builders competed for the order, all of
whom, with one exception, are located nearer
to New York than the Roanoke machine works,
which are owned by the Norfolk 81 Western
Railroad Company
the st. Louis e. Cairo road is to be changed
from three feet to standard gauge, Ia lease to the
Mobile 81 Ohio having been agreed on. with the
change of guage as one of the conditions. The
road is 152 miles long and was built when the
narrow gauge craze was at its height, being
then the longest line of three-foot gauge in the
United States with the exception of the Denver
& Rio Grande. Its builders claimed that it
would be able to take away the bulk of the
through business from the existing standard
guage line. but il never secured even moderate
share. and has picked up such living as was
possible from the local traffic.
The officials of the Burlington system, who
have charge of the construction of the st. Paul
division, state that the work is progressing be-
yond their anticipations and that should the
winter remain open the line will be completed at
q much earlier period than was contemplated
when the work was undertaken. The statement
that the Burlington has any intentions Of trans
continental line in the near future is contradicted
by the officials, who say they have no desire to
build road through long stretch of barren
territory to reach an objective point that is
already over provided with railroad facilities
The Hoosac tunnel is still an elephant on the
hands of the State of Massachusetts,. Nothing
is likely to from last years legislation until
some plan shall be agreed upon to settle the
price which the State may equitably ask for its
property. and which the purchasing corporation
can afford to pay. Judge Russell, of the Railroad
Commission. suggests, as a way out of the ex-
listing difficulty, that the amount which shall be
paid for the property be committed to three dis
interested gentlemen of established reputation
and undouDted probty.