Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-08-22
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RAILWAY BREVlTlES.

Two years ago n complete miniature rail-
way was presented to the emperor of China.
1t is three miles long and the emperor fire.
quently rides in the little cars
The recently completed tunnel through
Khoiak mountain in British India is 1900
feet, or 2i4 miles long, and will contain a
double line of rails throughout its whole
lcugth.
The proportion of passengers killed or
injured on American railroads is one-eighth
less than on European lines, while the pro
portion of employees killed or injured is
much greGter in America than in England.
A railroad guide of April, 1852, gives the
total mileage Of the United States as 1900.
1t took hours and 80 minutes to 20 from
New York TO Philadelphia by the fastest
trains. The trip is now made in less than
hours
The London and Greenwich railroad. 3%t
miles long, cost 81 300 651 per mile 1t is
built entirely upon an arched viaduct Of
brick The London and Blackwell rail
road, of the same character, cost 81 ,4cG, 304
per mile.
In the month Of May, 1890, there were 20
railroad accidents in the United States, in
which IS persons were killed and 10 in.
jured. There were threc locomotive boiler
entire year OF 1850
The Cleveland Columbus, Cincinnati
and indianapolis road has probably the
biggest passenger engine in the United
states 1t weighs siXty-live tons, and has
three drive wheels, each feet inches in
diameter, on a side
Cars are to be built of steel tubes by the
Steel Tubular Car company in Bradford,
l.. III.
stand any shock or strain, and if thrown
off the track down an embanllment they
will not be crushed.
! One has only to go back to the 70s to find
! the Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe road,
! now having a mileage OF over 1900 miles,
a local road only fifty miles in length.
| Since then Boston capitalists have placed
| over $50, 900, 900 in the property.
/ The secretary of state at Albany, y. Y,
| has Incorporated the Mexican Northern
| Railway company, to construct and oper-
| ate q railway from point on the Mexican
| Central railway near Escalon to the dis
trict of Sierra Ma1ada; capital, $3,000,000.
ON the Great Western line, in England,
/ it has for years been the custom to set aside
/ "ladieS COMPARTMENTS of each class on the
principal trains, but these are usually
! empty, ana the women IOr WAOnl Uney are
intended persist in filing the smoking car
| riages.
An electric device has been invented
which Will notify engineers by con INJECTIONS
! through the rails if their trains are too
near each other. After connection has been
thus established, telephone communica-
ton is possible between the occu pants of
the cab.
4 newspaper correspondent in England
says that he questioned some of the rail
way employees in regard to their wages and
learned that the guard, or conductor, gets
$50 month, the engineer from $40 to $50
and the fireman S2S, the men boarding
themselves.
During the first six months of 1890
twenty-one railroads, with total mileage
of 1870 miles and funded debt and capital
stool. Of sg}047, 900, were sold under fore
! closure in the United States In the same
time nine roads were placed in the hands
Of receivers.
A project is in consideration in Chicago
for the erect ion of an elevated and under
ground railway with two or more tracks
not exceeding three, to begin between Har
IisOn and Madison streets east of Fifth
avenue, across or under the Chicago river
to the city limits.