Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-01-15
The News of the Railroads.

A certificate Incorporating the Bal
timore and Cumberland Railroad
Company has been filed with the sec
rotary of State at Annapolis, Nd.
The company is incorporated under
the general incorporation act of the
State, and names the following as the
promoters OF the enterprise: David
l.. Bartlett. John A. Hambleton,
Bernard n. Baker, H. Irving Keyser,
Of Baltimore city; Buchanan Schley,
OF Hagerstown; Henry e. Davis and
Thomas b. Davis, of West Virginia.
The capital stock is fixed at 100000.
with authority to increase 10 2000,-
600. as the exigencies Of construction
may from time to time require. The
projected road Is a continuation of
the West Virginia Central and Pitts
burg Railway, which 10 now operated
from the coal and coke fields OF West
Virginia to Cumberland, that city be-
ing its present eastern terminus. The
Baltimore and Cumberland will con
meet with the West Virginia Central
at or near Cumberland, and will, il is
said, be built to Baltimore. which
will be its seaboard outlet. The pro-
jected line will pass through Allegany,
Washington, Frederick, Carroll and
Baltimore counties. The roate
through Washington county will
bring the new road to point at or
near Hagerstown, TO which point it
has already been surveyed from Cum
berland.
A monster locomotive went south
over the Norfolk & Western Rail
road one day last week 1t was bull.
by the Baldwin Locomotive Works
OF Philadelphia, and is sent out by
that company for the inspection Of
railroad men OF the South The To-
connective is a monster and swift
flyer. Its capacity is said to be more
than that OF the most powerful loco
motive now in use. 1t is a compound
engine with three six feet driving
wheels on each side and weighs 90
tons, 80 more than others now used.
When it blows off steam il does so at
a pressure Of 1875 pounds. while other
locomotives content themselves with
using only 1870 pounds. 1t has four
cylinders, and il is claimed that it
will easily and continually run u mile
in 90 and &c seconds This big loco
motive was designed by young man
thirty years Of age, who accompanied
it.
The annual report Of the sWestern
MARYLAND Railroad shows an increase
over last year in net earnings OF
S92. 322 The gain was during the
last four months of the year, and was
largely due TO the recently established
connection, through the Cumberland
valley, between the Baltimore and
Ohio and Reading. The new route
for coal between Hagerstown and
Harrisburg, over the lines OF the
Western Maryland road, is thus
shown to be productive OF profit TO
the latter company.
Capt. Walter Hutchins has been
made train master of the y. u w.
Railroad between Roanoke and Shen-
andoah His headquarters are at Ro-
anoke.
1t is rumored that the b. 4 o. Rail
road is after the Wheeling Terminal
system, with view Of obtaining a
shorter route to Chicago.
English locomotives have neither
bells. headlights nor cowcatchers.
Warning is given by the shrillest OF
whistles.
The celebrated case of the common
wealth against DR.. w. a. Richeson
for putting blind bull on the track
of the Norfolk and Western Railroad
last October, with view to recover
damages, was concluded in the county
court at Lexington on Monday, the
! jury bringing in a verdict of guilty
and fixing his term of Imprisonment
at eighteen monthsi in the penitentiary.
Samuel Besore, brakeman on the
! \. & w. Railroad, fell under the cars
of freight train near Rileyville
Wednesday morning. The brake rig
ging caught him and dragged him
along. causing injuries That may
prove fatal. He was taken 40 his
home in Hagerstown.