The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-10
IN RAILWAY CIRCLES
improvements and Innovations of
The Rio Grande Western.
THE RIO GRANDE JUNCTION LINE.
What Reckless Competition Means-The
Granger Who Wanted Berth to
Salt Lake.

Track-laying along the line of the Rio
Grande Western railway is once more to be
actively pushed. During the past three
weeks but little progress has been made in
the laying of the rails, owing to the angle
irons having been carried to Huntington
instead of Ogden. Men are now laying
track in Price cafion and west of Clear
creek, and it is expected that trains will
be running as far as Green river on the
new track before the close of November.
THE ROLLING STOCK
which has been ordered is all of the most
modern styles, and consists of $50 box cars,
100 stock cars, 200 gondola coal cars, fifty
fats, eight first-class passenger coaches,
eight second-cass passenger coaches, eight
baggage cars, six combined mail and bag
gage, and thirty five locomotives. The en-
gines are the latest improved Baldwin,
manufactured in New York The contracts
call for the delivery of the cars by the 18th
instant, but the factories have been crowded
and will be unable to fill the entire
order until probably near the first of De-
cember. Ten of the passenger coaches
have been built and are ready for the
painter, and the others will be completed
as soon as possible. The passenger equip
ments are to be the most elegant of any
line now in operation. the coaches being eX-
celled only by the Pullman cars. The
seats are after new design, with head
rests and a patent device for reversing.
They will be upholstered in a variety of
pushes in the most attractive manner pos
sible The coaches are constructed in as
secure and safe a manner as possible, the
wheels being of solid steel and all other
parts are as substantial as possible. The
freight cars are furnished with air brakes
and a new automatic coupler. Tin roofs
will take the place of the old-time wood.
The passenger coaches will be lighted
with gas and provided with system of
tanks in which gas is to be stored.
Four of the new engines are expected to
arrive in this city to-day and six more
have been shipped and are on the way.
The new track has been completed between
this city and Ogden, and will probably be
used as soon as standard gauge cars ar
rive. The freight cars will all be loaded
with material and shipped to Utah, which
will tend to delay their arrival few days.
Some will be billed to Pueblo, where the
material will be transferred to narrow
gauge cars, and the new cars then sent
over the Union Pacific to Ogden.
At the depot in this city there will be
many changes made. Nearly all the
switches will be moved, several new build
ings put up, old buildings moved and
numerous other improvements are under
way. Over forty thousand dollars worth
of new machinery has been ordered for the
machine shops and is being put in place as
fast as it arrives. Two of the five ice
houses have been moved 10 their new site
and work will begin on the moving of the
depot probably next week. With the new
brick warehouse and the addition to the
freight depot the reorganization will be
quite complete.