Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-02-14
TIE Railroad News.

Another new schedule went into ell
feet on the Shenandoah Valley Rail
road last Sunday-for better, for
worse. Passenger train No. 2, north
bound, is changed from S.14 a. Ill. TO
9. % D. m, and No. A, northbound, is
changed from $50 p. IN. to 1923 a. III.
1t will thus be seen that the change
is not one for the better. 1t is per-
haps as convenient to have an after
noon train north as morning one, In
some respects, but the night train
north is made practically of no use by
running it through at 1928 in the
morning. If the management of the
Shenandoah Valley cannot control
the time of its through trains it ought
to put on local trains for the accom-
mediation of its patrons.
About two hundred hands are now
employed in constructing the big
freight yard of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad at Berlin, Frederick
county, Md. Considerable progress
has already been made, and it is ex-
pected that the yard will be ready for
use within the next two or three
months. The transition that has re-
Gently taken place in this usually
quiet village, as the result of its selec-
ton by the Baltimore and Ohio for
the location of their enterprise, is
something remarkable. Temporary
hotels, boarding-houses, bakeries, sa-
looms, stores, &c, have sprung up on
all sides. Streets have been laid out
and petitions are in circulation pray
ing the Legislature to grant an act Of
incorporation, and, in short, every
preparation is being made for the
rapid building up of big town. 1t is
freely predicted that the place will
have an increased population of 1000
to 5000 in less than five years.
The plans of the Cumberland and
Washington Company for a railroad
along the banks of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal include an extension
of the road from a point on the canal
below Point of Rocks through Mont
gomery, Howard and Baltimore coun-
ties to Baltimore city if a satisfactory
traffic arrangement cannot be made
with the Western Maryland Company
at Williamsport, which is regarded
doubtful, in view of contracts with
the B. and o. President Henry G..
Davis, of the West Virginia Central
Railway Company, gives his views on
the proposed use of the canal tow
path as railroad bed, favoring the
proposition.
The corrected schedules Of the West
ern Maryland and Shenandoah Val
ley Railroads will be found on the sec
ond page of this issue.
Efforts are being made to change
the name of the town of Mines, on
the Shenandoah Valley Railroad, to
Shenandoah. May it succeed
Another frightful wreck occurred
on the Norfolk & Western Railroad
last Saturday night. Passenger train
No 3, which left Roanoke at $50 for
Bristol, was thrown from the track at
Huddleston's Mill by spr ,ading rails.
The express car was hurled across
creek a distance of sixty feet, and
George Kerr, of Eastville, Northhamp-
ton county, the messenger, was killed.
The mail car was demolished, and
Agents A. b. Burton, Of Lynchburg,
and B. w. Bocock, Of Bedford coun-
ty, were fatally injured, the latter's
back being broken. ], n. Barnes, of
Bristol, conductor Robert Adams, of
Lynchburg, baggage-master, and a
lady and little child, whose names and
residence could not be learned, were
seriously injured. The express car
took fire from the stove, but the
flames were quenched. In all, seven
teen persons were injured.