The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-01
ru,lLvVAY RUMBLES.

The Baltimore and Ohio company Is
using two new locomotives that were built
at the Mount Clare shops.
The ST. Charles car works have Just
turned out seventeen fine chair cars for the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas road.
It reported that the Norfolk and West
ern wants TO bay the Ohio and Northwest
ern to give an outlet from Portsmouth to
Cincinnati
The Richmond and Danville IS now run
ming postal cars between Atlanta and
Washington, lighting them with Plntscn
gas. The supply from the Atlanta works
runs the round trip.
The Columbus, Hooking Valley and To-
ledo company is going to place four iron
bridges on it's Hooking division, the con-
tract TO bald which has been awarded to
the Detroit Bridge company.
1t is expected that the New York, Lake
Erie and Westerns new coal dock at Wee
hawken, NJ which will be one OF the
most extensive along the North river, will
be completed in the near future.
The latest scheme for direct railway com
munication between England and France
provides for double watertight tube,
capable of containing two railway tracks,
and sunk about forty feet in the channel
The New York Central now requires
conductors to send in an accurate account
of the total mileage travelled by the passen-
gers on each train The work has hereto
fore been done by clerks at headquarters.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
was the first road TO introduce parlor cars
on it's accommodation trains, and they are
proving so popular that the company has
decided to make the arrangement perma-
nent.
The Sunday trains on the Midland and
Rio Grande lines between Leadville and
Glenwood Springs are called laundry
trains, They bear this appellation because
they are always filed with miners who go
to the springs to wash
Under a new arrangement passengers
over the Lake Shore for Syracuse and
points beyond will be carried around by
Niagara Falls without extra charge. Here
tofore the Michigan Central has had a
monopoly of this scenic route.
The Pennsylvania company has set aside
81 500, 600 to expend in improving its road
bed and equipments on the lines west of
Pittsburg, not including the Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne and Chicago, on which good
deal is to be done in laying a second track.
The Delaware, Laokawanna and West
ern road has put on two vestibulad trains
each way between Buffalo and New York,
and Buffalo and Philadelphia, making the
run from Buffalo to New York in eleven
hours, and to Philadelphia, in connection
with the Pennsylvania via Mauch Chunk,
in twelve hours.
The Concord and Montreal railroad has
leased from the Old Colony railroad for
ninety mine years I-e six mile link between
North Acton and Concord Junction, Mass,
and the former will run all its summer
mountain trains via its Acton branch.
Heretofore the through mountain travel
has been via Lowell
The Ponghkeepsie Bridge company eff
fecsed a traffic arrangement with the New
York and New England railroad by which
the latter company will use the bridge for
its through traffic. This arrangement was
conditional upon the construction by the
bridge company of connecting line from
the bridge to the New England railroad
To build this link will cost about 500, 000