The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-29
RAILWAY RUMBLES.

A railroad in the Argentine Republic has
one stretch of 211 miles without a curve or
bridge.
Miss Edith Benson has been appointed
agent of the Lake Shore road at Charles
town, Mich, vice 6. J. Kikendall, resigned.
The Lake Shore now has 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.
The number of employees on the New
York Central railroad system, not includ-
ing the Rome, WATERFOWL and Ogdens-
burg, Is 81, 400, and the amount paid in sal
aries last year was SIS. 49,, 1854.
The Erie management have issued pri-
vate circular to their conductors to further
impress them with the necessity of seeing
that the regulation requiring the rear
brakeman 10 go back with flag when the
train stops Is strictly adhered to.
A short time ago E. o. Mccormick, gen.
eral passenger agent of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton road, arranged for
through car service between Cincinnati
and Mackinaw, and it is proving popular
line. The run is made in nineteen hours.
The largest locomotive yet built in Eu-
rope is forty-six feet over all, with total
weight of eighty-four tons. On gradient
of one foot in forty the engine can, by ex-
ercising its full traction power, move 200
tons. 1t was built at the Hirschau works
In Munich.
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modating its patrons in suburban villages
by issuing baggage traffic tickets. at prices
ranging from five cents to fifty cents. for
the shipment of packages weighing from
to 400 pounds On such trains as do not car
~ express cars.
The longest train of coal cars of which
mention has been made passed over the
Philadelphia and Reading railroad recent
ly. 1t comprised ninety large cars and
was drawn by a locomotive weighing sew
enty-fve tons, one Of the heaviest engines
used in the coal regions.
Richard Pickett, well known con-
ductor on the Louisville and Nashville at
Nashville, has 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, since inheriting the
forty-fve miles of the old c., S. and G.
road. between Columbus and Springfield,
O., have practically rebuilt it. A number
Of curves have been taken ont. heavier
steel rail laid, bridges strengt ..ened and
good deal of reballasting done.
The Wabash roads proposed connection
from Chicago to Detroit only requires the
building of 152 miles of road, from Chicago
to Montpelier, from which point it has
main line connection with Detroit of nine
ty-six 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 a bridge, the approaches to which are
built on trestle nearly 1000 feet long. A
force of men has filed the trestle in with
dirt. 1t has taken over lis, 900 cubic yards
Of earth to complete the job, and has cost
about $4,000
The Toledo, st. Louis and Kansas City
road has issued new set of rules for the
government of employees, one of which re-
quires section foremen to make very full
report when stock is killed A diagram
must be drawn upon the back of the re-
port, showing where the animal got on the
track, where the body lay when found and
what part of the animal the train struck.