The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-12
MISCELLANEOUS Notes.


Since the last war on Missouri river points the
Council Bluffs line of the Chicago, Milwaukee g.
st. Paul has done a larger business than ever
before to all Iowa and Nebraska points.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railway
has just put on its limited express trains between
| Chicago, st. Paul and Minneapolis new equip
| ment of Pullman sleepers made expressly by the
Pullman company for this service. The sleepersi
are the finest ever turned out by the Pullman
company.
/ At the light locomotive works Of e. K.
Porter & Co., Pittsburg, magnificent engine Is
now being built that is soon to be shipped to-
Yucatan, In Central America. Two fine locomo-
tives, which are master pieces OF workmanship.
are now building and are nearly ready to be
taken from the works to Venezuela, in South
America. Another is to be constructed for the
| United States of Colombia in a few days.
The last rail has been laid on the Chicago,
Burlington g Northern railroad, closing gap a
few miles south of the Wisconsin river The
road has been built IN about ten months The
average grads Is thirteen feet and the line is
twenty miles Ions than the short line to Chi
/ cago and eleven miles shorter than the next
shortest to st. Louis. Freight traffic will be
opened Aug. L. and limited passenger trains to
Chicago put on Oct. /. Outside of the larger
cities it passes through forty smaller places
The Erie Railroad Company has begun the
work of ballasting its tracks with broken stones,
otter the manner of the Pennsylvania road.
New ties are also to be put in and new steel rails
laid. The rails are to be all STEEL instead of be-
ing simply topped with that metal Among
other improvements a great addition is to be
made to the rolling stock. The fifty new pas
senger cars, now about completed. are to be fol
lowed by number of others, and as soon as
standard is agreed upon, work will be begun on
an order for fifty locomotives.
I The Transcontinental lines seem to be recov-
| ering lost ground. The official reports show
| that the Union Pacific net for June rose from
$400 900 to 1923 600, but for SIX months is $113,
| 900 less than for the six months last year The
| AtchsoE shows an Improvement for June, but
| for SIX months loss of about $165, 000 The
! Northern Pacific for the year has net from the
operation of the property of So Bill 900, being an
| increase Of $530,000 but the fixed charges
amount to So, 954 900. The miscellaneous re-
cepts will the deficit, say nothing of the
receipts from land sales. The net earnings of
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy show an in
crease for June of $4,000 and for six months
| q loss of $3l1, 000
The Pullman car-works have just delivered to
| the Old Colony road a complete new train, to be
| run in connection with the Fail River line of
| steamers The train consists of five cars, each
sixty feet long, and seating seventy-six passen-
gees. The cars are tastefully ornamented out
| side, the inside finish being of solid mahogany.
The seats have mahogany frames of modern con-
struction. with cushions and backs upholstered
| in plush, and fitted with the Hale & Kilburn
| springs. The cars also contain all the modern
| improved appliances, including electric commu-
nlcatlon Win Inc engineer, IN pldco OIL tno Delt-
cord The Old Colony road bears much the
| same relation to Massachusetts, that the Penn
/ sylvania system does to the Middle States,
touch all the more important cities and towns in
the territory they cover.
| Thursday last was the fifteth anniversary of
the opening of the first line of railway in Canada.
| The road was the Champ1ain g. ST. Lawrence,
! and it ran from LaPrairie to St Johns, fifteen
miles. To our modern notions, it was queer
! affair The rails were of wood with fiat bars of
| iron spiked to them. The locomotive was
/ small arrangement imported, with engineer
| 60 manage it, from England. At the outset the
| engine was unmanageable It had knack of
| coming to a standstll of its own accord, and of
moving forward when it felt that way. In con-
sequence of it's vagaries, it was called the Kit
| ten But new engineer being engaged, it be-
| came controllable, the driver stating that the
only trouble with the kitten" had been ex-
cessive economy in the matter Of feeding it with
/ wood and water.