Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1891-08-15
RAILROAD RAILS.

Yosemite valley from San Frnucisco
alone this season.
Ed. Boylah, who has been dAing switch.
ing duty at Demiua for the Southern
Pacific, is in Las Vegas,
John Campbell. fireman on tho north
crn division that is ut Ration, has gone
to Kansas City Tor n vacation.
The Union Pacific has stopped run
ming tourist sleeping care The low retes
hurt the Pullman car business,
Engiucer + =. Stut,, on the extreme
western DIVISION " the Atlantic 4 Pa.
cifc, il off ou thirty days vacation.
Tommy Clancy, n brakeman well
known To some Of the railroad boys here,
has recovered from scige with typhoid
fever.
Mrs. W. I. G. Gibson, wife u an eu
glueer at Needles, hns returned e. hun
after visit ut "a Few months with t..
ldvcs at Gallup.
With rate ot one cent per mile near
ly every man, woman and Chld IN New
Mexico living on u railroad w,ll visit the
Albuquerque fair.
Conductor Al. Moody, popular
Atlantic 4 Pacific bell cord manipu
lator, Ii on duty again after leave ot
absence oi thirty days
L. B. Harris, civil engineer, ls now
running u line for the Santa Re line from
Temecula 10 Vista. Cal, with instruc
tions to find II sixty foot grade
There is u great deal II activity IN
railroad circles III Florida, owing to- the
discovery Of phosphate Rnd the rapid de.
velopmont " the industry within the
past year.
W. S. Hancock, master mechanic al
Needles, brother Of Our George" IL oil
on needed vacation. During his aD
seucc, M Cochhc!d, will assume his du.
ties ut Needles.
The A; :hison will run five special
trains from different points IA Colorado
for the accG unodatlon uf visitors to
Rocky Fordon .'watetmelon day" whIch
10 the third OF next month.
ID. Is. Robinson, late general manager
uf the Atlantic a Pacific, leaves the clt,
Saturday night lor San Antonio, Texas
He at once assumes control of the san
Antonio 4 Aransns Pass road
Says Needles Eye: Albuquerque u
all topsy .turvy over the loss Of Mr.. d.
Is Robinson. fie was one OF the be I
and most progressive cltizeus that town
ever had aud We do not wonder at thr
sadness of her citizen.
Locomotive 1879, P,ttsburg DIVISION
Pennsylvania railroad, during the las,
year travelled li0,0OU miles in its two
daily round trips between Pittsburg ard
Altoona, each distance OF li7 miles
and IN that time ~ SAID 10 haye required
no repairs.
by recovering it's bridge facilities AT
Omaha, the Rock Island can use lOO
mica Of connecting roads bull: last year,
the cost of which appears in the floating
debt account. over which there has beeu
10 much comment on the part OF rail
road wrcckers.
Circulars have been sent by traffic
mani ayers ~ some oi the Western rail.
roads 10 their Eastern agents instruct,
ing them To urge coal dealers 10 lay ~
their supplies at once, in order tha,
some OF the cars may be sent West to
help move the great grain crop
The new card time, which went into
effect last Sunday, does not material y
change the running of passenger trains
10 New Mexico, Dinldg cars were added
to trains Letwcen Denver and Pueblo
aud more char cars put on. When will
such easy travelling reach the south
west
Advance proofs OF the introduction
10 Poors manual Of railroads for 1854
have been received. The tables are ex.
haustive and interesting. From them
il is learned that in five years ending
with 1889 railroad milesge increased ~.
2ii miles, or o9s per cent. Capital in.
vestment increased s2,OO2, i3,543, ,lD5, or
~ per cent,
Such lively timea as the present have
never been Witnessed IN the history OF
freight movement on the Southern Pa,
citic's local lines, II tue company had
not anticipated the great rush by order.
ing many new cars, it would not he in a
condition To handle q great deal OF the
fruit and gram ireights that are now be.
ing offered.
The Southern Pacific company is re.
laying twelve miles Of track on the Cali.
forDa Pacific division, bet Xeen Suisan
and Sacramento, with seventy pound
steel rails. The old rails will he used on
some Of the valley lines, where heavy en-
Rines are not necessary The stsel rails
used in this reconstruction arc the heay.
lest IN use anywhere this side Of the Ms.
sour ryer,
The Canadian government bas received
information that owing TO the great
promise Of the crops in Manitoba and
the northwsst, the Canadian Pacific rail-,
way company hiss ordered fifty new en-.
ginss and 1900 box cars to. transport the
seasons harvest TO the seAboard, II is