The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-14
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The Pennsylvania excursion tickets are
now good either way between Newark
and New York.
Indianapolis railroad machinists kick
against overtime.
Steam engineers propose building a
home for disabled engineers. a
The Lackawanna will begin repairing
Its draw bridges on the 18th of this
month, and while the work is going on
the rivers will be closed,
The Pullman Company will exhibit at
the Chicago Fair the first sleeping car
ever built in the Uniteu States. There
has been a revolution since.
1t is said hat the Rock Island alone
has 5000 cars tied up neal Chicago
or on Eastern roads, and other Western
roads are troubled in the salns way.
lhe discovery of an old timetable of
the Boston & Albany Railroad for 1912
shows that it WAS signed by George
Whistler, Engineer This was the
father of tie eccentric artist, Whistler.
First Vice President McCrea, of the
Pennsylvania Railroad. has issued u cir
cular letter to officers and employees. in
which he explicitly orders that hereafter
all promotions in the service must be
made from the present force, and not
from outsiders or from favoritism. Merit
and faithfulness are the only factors TO
count The order causes a great deal of
satisfaction to the employees, especially
the latter clause, in which it states that
any infraction of this rule will result in
the immediate dismissal Of the offending
official.
A great many American locomoti YES
are going abroad these days. For the
ten months ending October 81, 1891, we
exported locomotives to the value OF So
S02, 413, compared with q value Of $685.
$50 for the corresponding period OF 1890.
An increase of over 800 per cent. is worth
noting.
A French engineer has invented a sys-
tenn of automatically stopping a train
when approaching another train on the
same track. 1t consists of a valve placed
under the locomotive in connection with
the brake pipe, so arranged that u metal
lie arm will apply the brakes to the train
when meeting any obstruction. Between
the rails are placed levers, about a mile
apart. operated either by electricity or
mechanical connection. A train in mo-
ton raises these levers both in trout and
behind 1t, SO that a train approaching in
either direction has the brakes applied by
means of the lever striking the metallic
arm on the locomotive. aud the train is
brought to a standstill without any
action on the part of the engineer. The
arrangement eau also be arranged to act
when signals are set for danger, the lever
being depressed when the signal is set for
safety.
The Morristown & Cumberland Gap
Railroad has just been completed. 1t con-
meets abe coal neldf of Cumberland Gap
with the iron are districts OF North Caro-
lima. 1t also makes a direct route between
Charleston, s.. G., IN Cincinnati.
1t Is thought Chat the LackawanIa road
is making arrangements tor q third track
from Hackettstown to Port Morris, as
some of the bridges have already been
widened enough to admit of another
@,ual- aud nthnr nh -, .raS hnu n haon rtnIo
that tend to create this impression.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is build
ing thirty-seyen new engines, six of whic:,
are flyers with & 12 foot drivers and
cylinders 20x24. Eight others are ten
wheel engines with drivers six feet two
in the mountain DISTRICTS. The others are
switch and freight engines.
The limited Florida express will be put
on January 18th TO run tri-weekly from
this city to St. Augustine.
The Lackawana has accomplished its
purpose in getting an independent line
West from Buffalo to the Missouri River,
hut there is a break between Frankfort,
Mich,, and Kewannee, Wis, the lake
being crossed by a steamer. From the
latter place the Lackawanna has built q
thirty mile road TO Green Bay ard gotten
possession of a road from Green Bay to
Winona. MINI, From Winona there is Il
new ROAD ~ MdSOu CibE, IOWH. huu from
there the road branches TO Fort Dodge
and Sioux City on the Missouri.
President Roberts of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company. referring to the or
ders for rails and rolling stock given by
his road. says:-'rbe outlook for next
year is verS promising. We hope the
prosperity of the agricultural districts
will be felt in manufacturing soon. We
have just ordered 5000 cars, aud this,
with our present equipment, will be need
ed 10 do the large business offering. We
are also arranging to build $50 TO 300
locomotives"