The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-16
ON RAIL AND CRossTIH.
Local ana General Gossip in Railway
Circles


The track OF the Atlanta and Florida
railroad has been laid within six miles Of
Fort Valley p.
Six frst-class coaches are now being made
for the South Carolina railway at the Ohio
Falls car works. 1t is expected that they
will be finished in the latter part of August.
President Sparks of the Georgia Southern
and Florida railroad has completed his ar
rangements with Manager Belknap Of the
Central railroad to run into the union
depot at Macon. The schedule will go into
operation on Aug. l.
A vestibuled tram, to be known as the
Cincinnati and Jacksonville Short line, will
| be run over the East Tennessee and Queen
and Crescent this fall between Cincinnati
and jacksonville The East Tennessee will
take the train at Chattanooga and carry it
through Atlanta to jacksonville The train
which will have both the Mann and Pull
man cars, will be inaugurated about Oct. /.
Myrtle division No. 256 of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers is making
preparations for grand excursion from
Atlanta and Macon, and along the line of
the Savannah, Florida and Western rail-
way on July "A, good for four days, toI ter
inmate at Tybee The following MENTORS
OF the brotherhood have been appointed on
the arrangement committee: 7. j. Walsh,
J. w. Smith, J. D. McMiscaly, f. Goalsby,
William Cahill, A. H, Lodge. Extensive
preparations are being made, and the com
mittee expects that not less than 900 peo-
pie will visit Savannah.
The question of right Of way of the At
lanta and Florida allroad into Fort Valley,
the Mirror says, is now question for the
chancellor The proposed arbitration is
now regarded as ruse to gain time for
bill an injunction against arbitrators and
the Atlanta and Florida. The case made
by the Southwestern is that there is no
necessity for the new road to come in in
front of the hotel, and that it would injare
the Southwestern to allow the Atlanta and
Florida to como in as it proposes. The
Central, IN the meantime, is spreading itself
along the ground near its depot
Col George T. Fry president Of the At
lantic, Atlanta and Western railroad, from
Atlanta to Savannah is going from county
to county through which the road will pass
He says that the surveying corps is now
operating at Keys ferry, in Henry county,
and is under the charge of Chief Engineer
VIM. H. Prior. The road, he says, will be
built by construction company, organized
under the laws of the state of New York, of
which Gen. Fitzgerald is president The
company is composed Of the officers of the
Equitable life insurance company, and the
organization was for the purpose of secur-
ing an investment for the funds of that
company. bOi. Try WdS III hancock county
Saturday, and was going from there to
Burke and Scriven counties.
This talk about electricity taking the
place Of steam entirely is, in my opinion,
all nonsense" said an engineer a day or
two ago. Have you ever computed the
immense power of steam, as applied to a
locomotive2 Look at this engine. She has
two cylinders of II by "A inches; that is, II
inches in diameter and "A inches long. Into
this small space enough power is compressed
to move this engine. tank, twenty loaded
cars and caboose. The engine will weigh
forty tons, or 10000 pounds; the tank, or
tender, loaded with its usual supply of
water and coal, will weigh about
10000 pounds. A box car will
weigh $1,000 pounds, and its load
$4,000 pounds; twenty cars loaded will
weigh just II, 100000 pounds Tho caboose
viii weigh about 10000 pounds SO you
see we have grand total Of $4,000
pounds moving over the ground at the rate
of from twenty to forty miles an hour, pro-
PEELED by an invisible power emanating
from space II by "a inches Sometimes
look at a long hill on the road before me,
then look back at train of twenty cars
then look at those two small cylinders, SO
small that a man could encircle one with
his arm, and think that wonderful, indeed,
must be the power generated, to surpass or
even equal them in such class of work
do not think it will ever be done with
electricity"