The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-25


Des Moines, Northern e. Western rail
| road company. 1t has an order for zoe
! ventilated box cars from the Memphis
d Charleston railroad company.
The Mount Vernon Gid Car Manu-
featuring company is building box cars
for the Louisville & Nashville railroad
company. 1t will start in a few days
on 400 drop-bottom gondola cars for
| the same company. The company has
also a contract for $50 coal cars from
the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling rail-
road company.
The Madison Car company, of Madi-
son, ILL.,, is at work on 200 box and 300
! coal cars for the Union Pacific, Denver
q Gulf railroad company.
! The H G. F'rick Coke company has
| placed an order with the Michigan
! Peninsular Car company. of Detroit.
Mich, for 400 open-top coke cars of
standard size.
The Philadelphia & Reading railroad
company recently completed at its
shops at Reading, Pa, a sample of a
new type of freight car, and it is
stated that the receivers have gi"en
an order for the construction of fifty
additional cars of this pattern.
Within a few months, more than
100000 feet of Washington fir and
cedar will be worked up into box cars
recently let to the Haskell and Barker
Car company, of Michigan City, Ind,
an order for 1,500 box cars. The step
has been taken in anticipation of the
enormous tonnage the road expects to
handle during the harvest. The con-
tract provides that the wood work be
entirely Of Washington fir, with the
exception of the roofs, which are to be
of Washington cedar. The Haskell
,yNIr
about 1000 men and recently advanced
wages 10 per cent.
The Memphis & Charleston railway
company will buy 200 box cars to meet
their increasing traffic requirements.
The Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf
railway company has contracted with
the st. Charles (Mo.) Car company for
two passenger coaches, two combina-
ton baggage and passenger cars and
two combination mail and express
cars.
The Toledo & Ohio Central Rail-
road company has placed an order for
Car company.
The Minneapolis & st. Louis Rail-
road company, which recently placed
an order for 100 box cars with the
Duluth Manufacturing company, has
increased the order to 200.
The Elliott Car company of Gads-
den, Ala, is building 200 gondola and
$50 box cars for the Southern railway
and fifty ore dump cars for the
Louisville 81 Nashville Railroad COM
pany
The Memphis Car and Foundry COM
pany is building 100 box 100 fat and
Birmingham Railroad company.
The RlOOOn ch1Jro Oar
company has received an order for 200
cars for the Lehigh Coal & Naviga-
ton company and another order for
100 for Frick & Co.
Contracts were awarded at Ottawa
for the construction of $50
platform cars, seventy-five box cars
and forty hopper cars for the Inter
colonial road. Rhodes & Currie. Of
Amherst, N. S., will build seventy
i've platform cars, forty box cars and
forty hopper cars. The Rathbun COM
pany, of Deseronto, Ont, secured the
contract for the rest.
The Erie Car works, of Erie. Pa.
have an order from H. W. Wick &
60. Gncorporated) for fifty drop
bottom gondolas.
The Chicago, Boston & Liverpool
company, and the Swift Packing com
9any are reported to be in the market |
-or refrigerator cars, the former for |
twenty-five and the latter for 100.
The receiver of the Duluth & Winni- |
peg Railroad company has applied to |
he United States court, at st. Paul. !
Mimi, for authority to buy 100 ore |
,ars.
1t is stated that the Toledo & Ohio
Railroad company will soon
,ars
The Duluth, Mesaba and Northern
railroad company, it is announced. is
N the market for 200 ore cars.
the United States Car company re-
ports business as improving. The COM
pany Is now opening it's shops at An
nlston. Ala, and will soon have its
axle, forge and bar mill in operation.
The shops at Urbana, Ohio, are full of
work, principally repairs.
The Santa Fe railroad company's
shops at Topeka, Kan, are running
Eull time, with about 1900 men, which
IS about 500 more than has been re-
luired for some time
me Lake Erie and Western rail-
road company is running its shops on
-ull time and full handed, and it's en-
tire equipment is being put in the
best condition. A number of it's en-
sines have recently been thoroughIy
rebuilt ' 20 NY
The Buda Foundry and Manufac-
:urlng company, of Harvey, Ill, has
-ound 1t necessary to increase the ca
'aclty of its plant, and is completing
improvements that will give it twice
is former output
The foundations of three shops to
De built by the H. C. Frick Coke com
1any, at Scottdale, Pa, where tha
company is to erect a car building
'lant, has been completed. The build
ngs will be ready to start this fall and
VII employ 100 men at first The shons
will repair the thousands Of coke cars
lsed by the company, and the erection
# new cars will be undertaken whom
necessary.
The Pennsylvania railroad conpanv
ecently began to put in use 1000 new
ars for coal, ore and limestone, which
we're constructed recently FIVE hun
RED more will be constructed as soon
IS the company can get the work done
Inc London and Northwestern and
ne London and Southwestern railway
ompanles recently placed orders with
ne Gould Coupler company, of Buffalo,
\. y, for the equipment of a number
cars with couplers. This is the FIRST
me automatic couplers will have been
sed IN England The Gould company
as also received an order from tha
treat Northern railway, of England s
or the equipment of dining-cars with
ne Gould vestibule and platform. such
s is used on the New York C--.traJ
his will be the Introduction of the
,merlcan system of vestibules and
latIorms IN England A newspaper :
Glasgow says that an automatic
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