The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-02
ON RAIL AND CROssTIE.
Local and General Gossip in Railway
Circles.

Local and General Gossip in Railway
Circles.
-Nashville has subscribed $4,000 toward
the proposed Tennessee Midland railroad.
Gen. Cummings, President Of the Lake
Erie and Western Railroad Company is
making a tour through South Florida
Through trains will be run over the No
bile and Birmingham railroad, between
Mobile and Marion Junction, by April l.
Two hundred hands are now at work grad
ing the road between Birmingham and
Marion Junction.
The Mobile and Birmingham railroad,
recently completed from Mobile to Marion
Junction, on the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia railroad, a distance of 149
miles, is in operation as far as Bigbee juno
tion, sixty-one miles from Mobile.
The branch line of the Kansas City, Mem
phis and Birmingham railroad, extending
from Emery to Aberdeen, Miss, recently
completed, has been opened for traffic. 1t
is fourteen miles in length, and will prove a
valuable little feeder to the main line.
President Bridges, of the Atlantic Coast
Line, is touring Florida in his private car.
From the Ancient City he goes down on to
Indian river thence to Tampa, and will re-
turn to jacksonville, by way of Silver
Springs and the Florida Railway and Nav
igatlOn line.
The Southern Passenger Association will
meet at Washington early this month to
take some action on the notice it has re-
ceived from the Alabama Great Southern,
which threatens to withdraw from the as
sociation unless some radical changes are
made in the constitution and agreements.
A great scheme of engineering is proposed
that of tunneling the Rocky Mountains
under ono of their highest peaks for dis
tance of %, 900 feet, or nearly five miles.
This would shorten the distance between
Denver and Salt Lake City many miles,
and it is said that considerable capital has
been raised in England for the undertaking.
Some railroad men think that the rail of
the future will weigh 100 pounds to the
yard. The Pennsylvania lines are expert
nenting with ninety pound rails on two
miles Of the New Jersey division, two miles
ON the Mountain division and two miles be-
tween Harrisburg and Philadelphia. These
are English rails laid in English style.
They think that with increased weight will
come increased length from the present
standard of thirty feet to lessen the number
Of joints.
The corps of engineers sent out by the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia road
to survey the line Of new road to jackson
vile from near Sterling, Ga, about half
way between Jesup and Brunswick, to
Harris Road, is within ten miles of Harris
Road. This road will give Jacksonville and
Florida another outlet both West and East.
President Thomas, of the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia road, says that the
new road will undoubtedly be constructed
Immediately. The road will be forty-two
miles in length, and will make the distance
from Jacksonville to Jesup eighty eight
miles, or twenty-four miles less than by the
route of the Savannah, Florida and West
ern by which the distance between the two
places is lis miles. 1t is also said that the
Richmond and Danville system propose to
construct a road beginning at Augusta, Ca
and extending to the point of beginning OF
the new road now being surveyed, which
will constitute the eastern outlet.