The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1891-10-02

4 railscud in the Argentine Republic has
one stretch Of 21l miles without a curve or
bridge.
Miss Edith Benson has been appointed
agent of the Lake Shore road at Charles
town, Mich, vice G. j. kikenlall resigned
The Lake Shore now hns ladies for agents
at four stations
The cheapest railway fare in the world
will be that on the Central London rail.
way, on which there will be three work.
mems trains daily, the fare for six miles
being but two cents @0
The number Of employees on the New
York Central railroad system. not nclud
ing the Rome, Wattrtown and Ogdens-
burg, is 2lt9o, and the amount pnid in sal
aries last year WAS sl3,33l SCI
The Erie management have issued a pri
vatc crcnar to their conductors to further
impress them with the necessity of seeing
that the regulation requiring the rear
brakeman to go back with n flag when the
train stops is strictly adhered 70.
A short time ;.go l.. @. Mccormick, sen
eral passenger agent OF the Cincinnati
Hamilton and Dayton road, arranged for
through car service between Cincinnati
and Mackinaw, and it is proving Il popular
line The run is made in nineteen hours.
The largest locomotive yet built in Eu.
rope is fortysX feet over all, With a total
weight Of eighty-four tons. On Il gradient
Of one foot i'll forty the engine can, by cS=
ercising its full traction power, move 200
tons. 1t was built ut the EIirschau works
in Munich
The Nickel Plate has !; plan for accon-
modating its patrons in suburban Villages
by issuing baggage traffic tickets. ut prices
ranging from five cents TO fifty cents, fol.
the shipment Of packages weighing from
to 100 pounds on such trains ,tS do not
ry express cars
The longest train of coal cars of which
mention has been made passed over the
Philadelphia and lteading railroad recent
". 1t comprised ninety large cnrs and
was drawn by Il locomotive weighing sew
enty-iiyu tons, one of the heaviest engines
used in the coal regions.
Richard puckett. a we'll known coi5
ductor on the Louisville and Nashville at
Nashville, hns been declared insane. He
has been running on the Louisville and
Nashville and Chesapeake and Ohio roads
for twenty years. but his mind began to
fail several months ago.
The Big Four people, ccinheritins the
forty-five miles Of the old c., s. und q,
road, between Columbus and Springfield,
o., have practically rebuilt it. A number
OF curves have been taken out, heavier
steel rail laid, bridges strengthened and a
good deal Of rcballasting done
The Wabash roads proposed connection
from Chicago to Detroit only requires tho
building of l52 miles of road, from Chicago
to Montpelier, from which point it has
main line connection with Detroit OF nine
ty-sx miles. This route will be shorter
than the Michigan Central by forty miles
The New York, Lake Erie and Western
road crosses the track of the West Shore
on u bridge, the approaches to which are
built on trestle nearly 1000 feet long \
force of men has filled the 1restle in with
dirt 1t has taken over ll5,0OO cubic yards
of earth to complete the job, and has cost
about $4,000
The Toledo. St. Louis aud Kansas City
road has issued II new set Of rules for the
government of employees one of which re-
quires section foremen to make very full
report when stock is killedZA diagram
must be drawn upon the back of the re-
port, showing where the animal got OH the
track, where the body lay when found and
what part OF the animal the train struck.