Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-02-07
Important Changes s. in the Balti-
more and Ohio.
ELECTRIC LINE ?p BALTIMORE
Contract Awarded :, and Definite
Arrangements Announced.
OTHER RAILROAD AFFAIRS

It is rumored in railroad circles that Gen.
eral Manager K. B. Campbell of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company does not
desire to retain his present position under
the new management, and will ask to be
transferred to other duty, or, failing in
that, he will resign from the service Of the
company.
A b. and o. official, who would likely be
informed as to what was going on inside, .
told Star reporter that the rumor was
probably correct, as Mr.. Campbell has re-
Gently stated in conversation that his pres
ent place is not congenial, from the fact
that he does not like the way railroading
is managed in the east
1t is further reported that already Mr.
CampbelPs successor has been seected-in
the person Of Mr.. E. o. Mccormick, an
intimate friend of Vice President Murray
ard now a prominent official of the Big
Four, with which Mr.. Murray has been for
a number Of years connected.
1t Is said that Mr. Mccormick has been
given month to consider the proposition
from the B. and o., which carries with it
a very large increase of pay, said to be
double his present salary.
Since Mr.. Murray left the Big Four and
the Office he held has been abolished, ru-
mors are circulated throughout this sec
ton that there had not been the best of
Feeling between President Ingalls, and Mr..
Murray for nearly two years past, owing,
1t is said. to some changes the president
made in some of Murray's arrangements.
Murray had a large following on the Big
Four, and it is common report that it is
his intention to take all the best men of
that system, if possible. On the Baltimore
and Ohio his authority is almost as great
as that of the president, and in traffic
matters he will not, it is said, be interfered
with at all.
Line to Baltimore.
A contract was yesterday awarded by
the Columbia and Maryland Railway Com
pany, whose electric line is to connect
Washington and Baltimore, to the Westing-
house Electric and Manufacturing Com
pany of Pittsburg, for the equipping with
electric power of the two power houses OF
The plans require, that the machinery
supplied shall be able to produce a speed
of sixty miles an hour, and ii is expected
that trains will be run between the two
cities every half hour. Each of the power
houses will be one story, 120 Ey $50 feet
The one near Hylttsville will probably be
built of brick. and the one near Leicester,
about ten miles from Baltimore, will, it is
likely, be constructed of stone.
The equipment as provided for in the con-
tracts comprise eight 100 kilo watt gener-
atorss switchboards and panels, and re-
QuireS that the first generator in each pow
er house is to be ready for operation by
May -. Tie Booster" system has been
adopted for the operation of the plants. 1t
is claimed for the Booster that it has the
effect of increasing the voltage and at the
same time 1t reduces the amount of copper
nece ssary to transmit the current.
In planning the power stations it was
provided in the contracts that the express
trains between Washington and Baltimore
shall be operated at over sixty miles an
hour. while at the same time trains will be
run between Washington and Laurel and
twenty-minute sch adule, with the exception
of comparatively small portion of the
road. and that what is known as COM
prised in the Baltimore division the route
lies through comparatively level country
and it is expected that the trains will make
phenomenal speed.
No railroad grade crossings made on
any part of the linz. In entering Washing
ton the road will pass under the Metropoli-
tan branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company at Rhode Island avenue
The line will go under the Baltimore and
Potomac track at Baltimore and over the
Baltimore and Ohio tracks at Leicester, on
a viaduct 100 feat long.
The single trolley wire with feed wires
will he employed. hut a different method
of suspension from that usually adopted
will be used for :he purpose of lessening
the danger Of the trolley wheel jumping off
the wire
BY June the road will. it is expected, be
in operation between Baltimore and Eilicott
City and two months later between WASH
inEton and Laurel Work on the middle
section between Ellicott City and Laurel
will be begun about April l.
Notes.