The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-05-06
RAILROAD NOTES.

The Pennsylvania is getting ready for
the construction of four track bridge
over the Raritan at New Brunswick. 1t
will be fifty-three feet high to meet the
elevated tracks in this city. The COM
papy is getting ready also to double track
its line west of Pittsburg for the Chicago
fair traffic, and it is said that 100000
will be spent for this alone.
The Pennsylvania will spend SIS, 900, 900
this year for improvements in road and
equipment. Most of it will go for new
engines and cars. and one item is 81 ,000. 900
for 1000 freight cars. or new locomo,-
tives 150 will oe purchased and built, and
of new passenger cars 225 will be added.
The new timetable ON the Erie, Newark
and Paterson and Greenwood Lake roads
will go into effect on Sunday, May Is.
Ten new passenger coaches are being
built for the Lackawanna by the Jackson
& Sharp Company of Wilmington, Del.
The Pennsylvania Railroads ferry run
ming between New York and Jersey City
carried over 18,700.000 passengers during
1891
There is total of 1853 passenger trains
entering and leaving the D., l.. & w.
depot in Hoboken daily. They consist of
100 cars, with seating capacity of 39, 800.
A committee of commuters and other
patrons of the Central Railroad of New
Jersey have presented petition to the
officers of the railway company to have
the color of the cars changed from the
present sandy yellow to a bottle green.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works went
into competition with Swedish, English
and American builders for the construc-
tion of a peculiar engine designed by q
Swede for Swedish road and got the
contract not only on account of being the
lowest bidder, but because it was guaran-
teed to finish the work in three months,
while other locomotive builders wanted q
year to construct 1t In. 1t was done In
ten weeks. although novel in many ways
and possessing details never before seen
in this country.
A recent order that every employe of
the railroad must show his pass every
time he travelled to- and from his work
the Dover Inder. Even well known con-
ductors got caught. Iuscoe, so 1t Is re-
ported, rode with "Bill" Griffith last
week and had to produce either pass or
the rhine. He did not have the former,
so he planked down his fare. 1t was
looked upon as a mean piece of business
at the time, and the boys were wondering
how to get square. 1t came few days
later, when Griffith was riding on Jerry
Georges train. He had no pass But he
was compelled to pay over some of his
months wages, or--walk. He paid.
q The Pennsylvania Railroad Is being
watched with intense interest in its fight
with the Port Reading combination and
all sorts of rumors are afioat. Among
other things it is said that The Pennsyl-
vania will try to buy in the Pennsylvania
Poughkeepsie & Boston road from the
receiver, get the Poughkeepsie bridge in
the same manner. and secure control Of
the Central New England. This would
make the company a power against the
Port Reading. Tue p, p. & b. road is
apparently suffering by falling under
Reading control, the force of engineers
has been reduced to six men and the con-
ductors to fonr. A great deal of the pres
tige Of tine road has gone with the removal
Of the through express trains to the Le-
high & Hudson. and there seems TO be
little for the receiver to do but sell out.