Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-26
General Notss

The power for the electrical railroad at
Toronto, Ont, costs only So day.
Young women have been employed as
ticket agents on the Staten Island rail-
road.
Trains now cross the Missouri river at
Sioux City on the ice. This winter
bridge is used every year.
To the railway trains Of Russia church
car is attached, IN which travellers and
traimen can attend divine service.
More than $4,000, 600 feet Of lumber has
been used In the construction of snow
sheds on the Northern Pacific road.
A train on the Illinois & ST. Louis road
overlook dog near Belleville the other
day. The animal could not get out OF the
way and was finally run down. At the
next station the engineer was astonished
to see the dog crawl out Of the ash pan OF
The locomotive and run off unframed.
Engineer John Moore OF the Dayton &
Michigan said the other day, white haul.
ing the south-bound express from Toledo
his train ran race with q man near
Cairo, and the man kept even with the
train for about 300 yards He declares
that the train was running at speed Of
fifteen miles an hour at the time.
A car called the "spotter" now goes
over the New Yo,k Central road at given
periods. IL Is provided with tank OF
colored fluid and when the wheels roll
over rough place in the track the fluid
is spilled on the spot. 1t Is so arranged
that the track superintendent can, while
seated on the inside Of the var, view the
track and thus detect any flaws that may
exist.
A patent has been obtained by gentle.
man OF Sar Francisco for what is claimed
to be a IRE and collision-prooi railway
car. II Is made wholly of iron and steel,
aud the weight will range from sixteen TO
twenty tons tor ordinary passenger
coaches, aud from twenty-five to twenty
i've tons for sleepers, The loor Is a
single sheet Of metal, and the roof also a
single sheet. The beams are OF rolled
steel.
A laboring man OF Minerville, Pa, has
patented car brake which he thinks is
much better than the Westinghouse
brake. He says that II can stop a freight
car running at the rate OF thirty-hve mi es
an hour In fiteen feet, lock the wheels
dead In ak or eight seconds, and stop 4
locomotive running AT the rate OF forty
miles an hour before II has moved twenty.
i've feet. lie has been offered S75, 900 foi
his invention
The largest locomotive in the worlt
passed through Bismarck, ID # recently
en- route 10 the Cascade division OF t6c
Northern Pacific road. This engine ha,
been built expressly for use by the North
ern facihc on the Cascade M untaius
and without coal or water weighs eighty
two tons. When In running order sh,
VIII weigh ninety tons. She has ter
drive wheels, and will draw all the tracb
wiz hold on the steepest grades.
Some years ago mechanic near New
Haven was riding In a railway train, and
was lolted and Jared as In the early days
OF travel passengers were apt 10 be. Hc
DIDN'T iret and iume as the other passen.
gers did, out began to study aud expert
ment with view to making a spring thai
would reduce the ioltlng 60 minimum
lie ~ last succeeded, and his spring was
adopted by every railroad Ia the country
de Is no longer a poor mech lc His
nAue Is Carlos French, and he has lust
been elected 70 congress from the New
Haven district,
Railroad section bosses are provided
with blanks, on which they are r. quired
70 report all cases OF animals killed by
trains. The blanks have spaces Tor tell.
.ng when, where and how sho animal 4
Killed, and what disposition Il
made o. The carcass, whether Il Il