The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-14
RAILROAD RUMBLES.
THE FORT SCOTT s. GULF ROAD TO
BE EXTENDED.
Expansion of Southern Railroad Busi-
ness-The Louisville g. Nashville in
the Lead-A Fast Run of lo5 Miles.

GENERAL MANAGER NErrLEToN, of the Fort
Scott n Gulf, made tour OF inspection over
the Kansas City & Pacific on Monday last.
rumor is current that the Gulf people are
negotiating for that property in order to get
with it the valuable right of way through
the Indian Territory granted at the last ses-
sion of Congress. The building of few
miles to Pamela, for which bonds have been
voted and right Of way secured, would con-
meet with the main line of the Gulf and
afford short and desirable route from Kan
sas TO Texas.
A YOUNG railroad man of Atlanta has in
vented ticket to defeat scalpers. Ii is thus
described: The agent who sells the low-rate
round trip points his camera at you while he
gives you your change 1t records the inn
age OF the purchaser in an instant The
agent pulls out the slide, rubs his chemical
sponge over the sensitized paper and-there
you are. In the upper left hand corner of
the ticket he pastes that picture puts il
under stamp that emboSScs the edges and
unless you can find somebody that looks
enough like you TO risk the chance Of a re-
turn on your image the ticket win carry the
original purchaser and nobody else.
The Manufacturers Record, noting the ex-
panson OF the business OF several southern
railroads, rs manifested by their recent
purchases of locomotives and cars, saws;
The Louisville X Nashville Railroad COM
pany was the heaviest purchaser of rolling
stock OF all southern roads during the last
twenty months. That road purchased, dur
ing that time, % locomotives and 1925
freight cars; the Norfolk x Western, another
great coal carrying road, ordered 10 locumo-
uyes and LIS freight cars; the Alabama
Great Southern added to its rolling stock
locomotives and 100 freight cars; the Gin
cinnati, New Orleans 4 Texas Pacific, 10
locomotives and sbs freight cars; the Central
OF Georgia, 90 locomotives and 500 freight
cars; the Newport News Il Mississippi Valley
company, 10 locomotives and COO cars: the
Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham rail
road, 20 locomotives aud GOO freight cars.
TnE train sheets show that on August II
engine No. $50, on the Chicago, 81. Louis a
Pittsburg panhandle rOutcl. Mike Grccnan,
engineer made what is claimed 10 be the
fastest run-hauling the Pennsylvania spe-
cial, No. 0-eyer made on the Pennsylvania
lines west of Pttsburg. The train which
consisted of four cars, was hauled froM In
ANNAPOLIS 10 Bradford, los miles, in l2l
minutes, after making an allowance for
making two stops at railroad stations, one Of
Tour minutes, stopping at five railroad cross
lngs, and slowing down running through
Greenfield, knightstown and New Paris.
The train, which left indianapolis thirty
seven minutes late, ran into Columbus but
i've minutes late. The actual time, includ-
ing stops, was, therefore, two hours, thirteen
minutes, giving speed of i7.I miles per
hour, while the average speed, whilst in
motion, was iity-two miles per hour. The
schedule time is two hours, fOrty-hye min
utSs, with two intermediate station stops
This gives speed OF 49, miles per hour, In.
Guiding stops. This train, the Pennsylvania
special, through train from 81. Louis to
New York, 5 scheduled 90 run from Indian
lpolis to Columbus, lSS miles, in live hours,
making stops at six intermediate stations
This gives a speed Of $40 miles per hour, in
Guiding stoppagcs,