The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-02
RAIL AND CsOsSTIE.

The Georgia railroad will soon change
the color of its cars from the canary bird
yellow to something of salmon color.
Articles of incorporation of the Orlando
and Mosquito Inlet Railroad Company have
been filed with the secretary of state of
Florida. The capital stock is $3.50, 900. The
company will build through Orange and
Volusia counties, running between Orlando
and Mosquito Inlet
In view Of the fact that a large number
of passengers afflicted with pulmonary com
plants are carried on French railroads on
their way to southern districts, it has been
found expedient to adopt measures to insure
thorough disinfection of the bedding in the
sleeping cars and of the seat cushons. The
velvet cushions and silk curtains will DO
abandoned, and the seats will be fitted with
soft Leather coverings which can be easily
cleaned. Coarse carpets are TO be substi-
tuted for those of finer quality now in use -,
and these are to be thoroughly beaten after
every trip. The bed clothes will be stea med,
and the mattresses covered with impervious
silk OF with gutta-percha. Besides all this,
it is considered desirable to provide isolated
compartments for passengers suffering from
pulmonary disease.
A railroad time table, governing the run
ming of trains on any road Of considerable
length, is one of the most important things
in the management. The preparation of
such table Is very ingenious bit Of work,
and is thus described by a railroad man:
The means employed are the simplest sort
common pins and spools of colored threads
in connection with large sheet Of draw
ing paper mounted on an easel This paper
is called time chart. The chart is ruled
either for two, five or ten minutes time by
horizontal lines and perpendicular cross
lines. The thine" is marked above o hori-
zontal lines and the distances or stations and
OF terminals down the first perpendicular
line. For illustration: IL midnight is the
mark on the first horizontal line and each
hour is marked until the twenty-four
OF the following midnight hour is
reached on the last horizontal line. Between
the hour lines the space is divided into
minutes and graduated as fine as desired
On two minute chart the space bet cen
the hours is divided into ten minutes time.
and the ten minutes time into two minutes
time. The hour lines are made heavy and
the lesser lines are of a lighter shade to dis
tinguish them. One terminus of the road is
marked on the first line beside the first time
mark, IL midnight. The other stations fol-
low down the perpendicular line until the
other terminal is reached. Then all is ready
to prepare for the running arrangements,
provided the pins and threads are ready. A
blue thread means passenger train, red
thread a freight train, and If trains OF other
roads use a part of the track they are
designated by different colored thread. It
Is calculated that the running shall be, say
rs miles an hour, and for the purpose OF
illustration, the tracing of one passenger
train will answer the purpose Of ex-
planning them all. A passenger
train leaves the first station
say at a. m. A pin is placed on the hori-
zontal line at the a. m. time mark, and
the end of the blue thread fastened thereto
Ii the train runs without stopping for so
miles the blue thread is stretched over OPP
posite stations at which the stop is made,
and directly under 10 a. M time mark an
other pin is stuck and the blue thread
wrapped around it to keep it taut. IL there
Is stop say Of forty minutes the blue
thread is stretched to the 1910 a. m. time
mark on direct line with the same station
and another pin stuck and the blue thread
wrapped. The train starts and it's entire
course is Mus timed and distributed along
the road. If the railroad has many pas
senger and freight trains running daily. the
time chart, when completed, looss like
great spider web stretched with pins But
little work then remains to transfer the
time and stations to the time table, and the
schedule is ready for the printer.