The Jersey City news., 1892-02-23
RAILROAD NOTES.

The rolling stock of the railroads of the
United States is valued at billion and q
half of dollars.
The engines on the Manitou and Pixies
Peak railroad successfully use Colorado
petroleum for fuel.
Railroad men representing nearly every
city within 500 miles of Chicago met and
declared that the Brotherhood of Train
men had furnished men to take the place
of strikers and that the organization
was paid for doing SO by the Northwest
ern road.
The Gilbert car WORKS has orders for
sixty cars to be run on the trains which
the Central Hudson Company will oper-
ate between New York and Chicago dur
ing the Worlds Fair.
The Schenectady Locomotive Works
give employment to 800 men, fully 100
of whom are now on the sick list. Con-
tractors are making estimates for the
erection of a new foundry. The build
ing will be 32Sx100 feet.
The strike upon the San Antonia &
|. Arkansas Pass railroad is a thing of the
past. After twenty-five days the men
gave up the struggle. 1t was conducted
under the auspices OF what was known
as the Federation of Labor.
The Elizabeth station of the Central
| will be The finest on the line when COM
pleted.
The Central has ordered twenty five
ane passenger coaches from the Pullman
! Company. They are to contain steam
pipes and fire apparatus.
1t looks queer to find car marked
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West' in
| the Jersey City depot of the Pennsylva-
| mia Railroad, but IL is there twice week.
A new railroad is projected to run
/ along the base of the Catskills through
| Rockland county to Sufferns and across
| the New Jersey line to Saddle River and
Jersey City.
L w. H.
| statistics are interesting. The lines east
of PtUsburg and Erie aggregate in mile
age 4, 433 45 miles mot including 1924 miles
4 OF canals and ferries), with a total of
| S546,9 8 miles of line and 25S 16 miles of
track during the year of 1891. The in
crease OF line is due to the completion and
| extension of the following lines:-New
| York Bay Railroad extension. LA miles;
Kensington s. Tacony Railroad, 0 90 miles;
| Alloway 81 Quinton Railroad, 4. .22
miles; Pencoyd branch, 1.23 miles;
Trenton cut-otf, A 96 miles; extensions
Fork Railroad, 1893 miles; Turtle Creek
| Valley Railroad, 644; Turtle Creek
| Branch Pennsylvania Railroad. 2.02
miles; West Penn railroad, branches,
| 9.54 miles; Pttsburg and Bessemer Rail-
| road, 1.47; miscellaneous extensions. 2. 33
miles, total, so. Sc miles. Four miles of
| line have been taken up during the year,
| which leaves a net increase in the lines
east OF Pittsburg and Erie of sc. So miles.
West of Pittsburg and Erie the lines ag-
gregate 3,412 "a miles, and total track
age of 5, 1879. 72 miles. being an increase
over the previous year of 10 26 miles of
line and 115. SO miles of track.
The Railroad Gazette, the leading pub
lcation 0f its class. had fine half-tone
illustration of engine 3S5 of the Central,
last week, and described the mammoth
compound racer. which is now the pride
of the road. Another illustration repre-
sents an eight-spool hosting and bridge
constructing engine, built by j. S. Nun
dy of this city.
The Pennsylvania Company is design
ing a ten-wheel engine, which will be
known as class TX " They will have
19x24 inch cylinders, boilers 62 inches in
diameter and the drivers will be 68 inches
high. They will weigh 10000 pounds.
The class 20" engines, now the standard,
weigh between 80 600 aud 100000 pounds.
The Pennsylvania Company is getting
in shape to spend 81 250 900 in putting the
road in excellent coudiGion Tor the Column
bIan Exposition travel in 1898. Orders
have been placed in the company's shops
for the construction of 100 new locomo-
tives. One hundred and fifty new pas
senger cars will be placed on the line by
the opening of another year. Thirvy
miles of new double track will be built on
the Fort Wayne line and numerous long
sidlngs laid