Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-04-01
What the Railroads are Donna.

The big stone-crushers of the Nor
folk & Western Railroad ar Shep-
herdstown and Front ROYAL were
started up Tuesday, and the orders
are to run them at their full capacity
right straight along Mr.. George T.
Ryan will superinrend the work at
Front Royal, and Mr. Nelson Wilson
will have charge at Shepherdstown.
About fifty miles OF track on this d.
vision is yet to be ballasted-ten miles
north Of Shepherdstown in Mary
land. and about eighteen miles imme-
diately south Of this place. The bal
ance is at the Front Royal end of the
line. 1t will take all Of the summer
and fall to do the work-perhaps
longer.
The Norfolk & Western Railroad
has had lights put on all the switches
along its line. II the switch is closed
white light will show, but If it is
open a red light will be displayed.
This is an additional safeguard for
the protection of the n. 4 w. trains.
Great improvements are being made
all along this division Of the Norfolk
& Western Railroad. All the wooden
trestles and bridges are being filled in
with earth or replaced with iron
work, the track is being leveled up
and thoroughly ballaSted, new safety
appliances adopted, and the road put
in as good shape as it is possible to
get it.
While all these improvements are
going on, there is just one that we'd
like TO sea first-class union station
for the b. g. o. and the y. & w. at
Shenandoah Junction. We believe
the site is owned by the latter road,
the necessity snrely exists, and the
public is pining for it.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
Company has adopted plans for ne"
passenger station at Roanoke TO cost
about 100000.
j. NJ Eddy, vice-presid INT Of the
Norfolk aud Western Railroad, and
Frank Huger. superintendent Of trans
portation. and w. b. Bevill, general
passenger agent Of the same road; &.
X. Lord, third vice president, and J.
T. Odell. general manager OF the Bal
timore aud Ohio, held a meeting in
Baltimore last Friday for the purpose
of arranging for solid train from
Washington 10 Chattanooga over the
Baltimore and Ohio and Norfolk aud
Western Roads. The arrangements
were all completed. and the train will
be put on in the early part of April
1t is to be known as the Shenandoah
limited.
Work is being actively pushed on
the Potomac Valley Railroad, the
branch that connects the Western
MARYLAND Railroad with the b i y. at
Cherry Run. The piers for the bridge
across the river have been completed,
nearly all the grading is finished. and
track-laying will be proceeded with
as rapidly rs possible.
About S7,OOOO 900 will be expended
this aud next year on the PenmNylva-
MIA lines west Of Pittsburg, with a
view to accommodate the Worlds
Fair traffic, Of which 81 ,0O0OOO will
bedevoted to new locomotives passtn-
ger coaches aud other rolling stock.
The rails used will weigh 90 pounds
TO the yard.
President Henry q. Davis, of the
West Virginia Central, acting Tor the
Baltimore and Cumberland Railway
Company, has placed before the Bal
timore city authorities a proposition
which. if accepted, will give the con
troll Of the Western Maryland Rail
road to the Baltimore and Cumber-
land. The proposition is that the city
SIldll execute Il ItdHt VI lIiiNA ii''''
years, renewable forever OF the
Western Maryland, with all OF its
rights, privileges, franchises and in
terests OF every kind. The considera
ton is that the Baltimore and Cum
berland is to pay the city 100000
cash down, to be applied to the ex-
tinction of the floating debt OF the
Western Maryland. and to pay-be-
ginning January /, 1S94-SIO.OOO a
wear toward the extinction Of $1,000
600 Of the debt OF the Wrstcr0 Mary
land TO the city, and per cent on the
portion OF said debt remaining unpaid
from year to year till it shall have
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