The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-28
ON RAIL AND CRoasTIB.
Local and Genera Gossip in Railway
Circles


The Central railroad shoe fly train will
hereafter arrive in Savannah from Millen
at o'clock "a. m, aud will leave at 40
O'clock p. m, Sunday inclusive. The
Augusta special Sunday train will arrive
here at 10 O'Clock a. m, and Will leave at Z
O'Clock p. IN. The special will stop at all
points beyond Millen. No stops will be
made between Savannah and Milen.
The engineers excursionsts will return
tonight after four DAYS of fun and frolic at
Tybee. They have been in charge Of one
of the committee each day since their ar
rival, and no paLAs have been spared to
make their trip a pleasant one. They were
not crowded on the beach by other excur-
sonists, and Tybee for the past four days
has literally belonged TO them, and they have
made tho most of 1t. TIE special train will
leave tonight at $50 o'clock.
The work of relaying the main track Of
the Charleston and Savannah railway with
sixty-pound steel rails is progressing very
satisfactorily. Last fall the company,
finding the old fifty-Six- pound rails too light
for the heavy traffic OF the TO d, began to
replace them with the sixty pound rails,
and the work has been going on by easy
stages ever since in order not to interfere
with travel or the movement of freight,
About sixty miles Of the road have been
changed up to this time, leaving about the
same number of miles yet to be laid with
the heavier rails. Two gangs of laborers
are now at work changing the track be-
tween Charleston aud Yemassee, and it is
expected that the whole road will be
equipped with the sixty pound rails by Oct
|. The Charleston and Savannah railway
company have already increased their
rolling stock by the addition of thirty
platform freight cars and expect to order a
number of new locomotives in anticip a
ton of the fast winter travel soon to begi n.
A western paper saws that the best speed
ever made by a railroad train was accom-
plished last month by Elijah Smith, presi-
dent of the Oregon railway and navigation
company, who went from Omaha TO Port
land, on u special train, consisting of loco
motive, coach and private official car He
makes these trips every year or two, and
has mania for fast riding, which makes
the engineers along the hne sick and the
crews dospondent for a month preceding his
advent. The run made bY the Jarrett
Palmer train in 1876 was always held up as
the champion long distance run on record,
but Mr.. Smith has twice beaten it in his
race across the continent. His trip this
year was to beat bis own
record, and he suCcet ded in doing
IL. At several stages of the journey the
speed exceeded a mile Il minute over long
stretches of track, wEila on the mountain
divisions he left the Jarrett Palmer time SO
far in the shade it viii never be talked of
among railroad men. In one stretch of 1856
miles in the worst mountain district on the
Union Pacific road, Mr. Smith this time
beat his previous record over half an hour
When the engineer stepped down from the
cab at the end of the district, he was as
white as a sheet, and the conductor was IN
able to register in the dispatcher's office. so
nervous and frightened was he at the rate
they had been travelling. All this time Mr..
Smith slept quietly i'll his car. He likes the
excitement of such a trip, and always tele-
graphs ahead for the same engineers he rode
with last time to be held for him again He
generally gives all hands around a pretty
good bonus for taking such risks.