The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-24


shield is numbered by the length OF service
OF the employee. some of whom have been
on the road for more than a quarter or
century.
The Toledo & Ohio Central is to have
terminal facilities at Columbus o.. independ-
ent of all other roads, after April /, when
its new depot at Columbus will be thrown
open TO the public.
large per cent. of the locomotives in use
on the New York, Pennsylvania a. Ohio
built fifteen to twenty years ago at the COM
pany's shops in Meadville. Pa.
T. E Fisher. claim agent OF the Ohio
Southwestern road, is seriously ill., On Sat
urday last w. III. Fisher, general passenger
agent of the Columbus & Hooking Valley
road. was called TO Springfield by telegraph.
Plans have been prepared for two new
depots on the Louisville division of the
Pennsylvania lines-one to be erected at
Memphis and the other at. North Vernon.
At both points such an improvement has
been needed for years.
Eugene Debs is visiting many railway GEN.
ters in the South. In his addresses he iauds
the A. r. L.. and attempts to injure the
standing of the older railway organizations
by characterizing them as the aristocracy
OF the railroad workingmen-
General Manager Hays, of the Grand
Trunk. is already displaying much ability
in handing the companys interests. one
OF his most important victories is the COM
polling of the Port Huron Tunnel Company
to cut its transfer charges one-haf He
threatened to go back to the old ferry sys-
tenn IL the tunnel people did not come to
his terms.
f. II. Michigan, who has been appointed
general superintendent of the Grand Trunk,
rs over six feet tall, forty-slx years of age,
and, when thirteen years old began his rail-
way career on the Pennsylvania lines, Erie
and Pittsburg division, as water boy. Mr.
McGuigan represents the third generation
OF railway men in the family. His grand
father assisted In building the first railroad
in Scotland.
The roads that enter Buffalo are taking
steps TO establish uniform switching
charge: At but few railway centers are
switching charges as low as at Indianapo-
lis. President ingalls,, Of the Big Four, was
the promoter of such reasonable switching
charges at this point to encourage manu-
Company and Belt road have been valuable
aids in regulating charges.
James McCrea, first vice president of the
Pennsylvania Company, in commenting on
effect that the Pennsylvania had under con-
sideration the building of a line to form
short line between st. Louis and Chicago,
pronounced it fake, which only a glance
at the map would demonstrate. He said that
instead OF building forty-one miles of link
the Pennsylvania Company would need to
construct a little over 200 miles of new road
Engine No. POI, which the Louisville
New Albany & Chicago Company has placed
on it's Indianapolis division to handle it's
heaviest trains between Indianapolis and
CnlCagO, Is giving satisfaction In its per-
formance, and mechanical experts pro-
nounce 1t one of the best pieces of ma
chinery running in here. The engine is of
the Baldwin build. has an 1Sx24-inch cylin-
der: driving wheels, five feet eight inches
In diameter: boiler. fifty-eight inches in di-
ameter. with 2i2 fues; fire box, six feet
long, two feet ten inches wide and six feet
four inches high. The engine weighs 1913 900
pounds, is equipped with New York drivers
and train brakes, and has all modern i'm
provements required for a high-speed To-
connective.
c. b. Ryan, general Western passenger
agent OF the Chesapeake e Ohio, writes as
follows: When Mr.. ingalls, started in with
the reorganized c. & o., he said Ii was a
good thing to have standard corored train,
and he selected the orange, with maroon
trimmings, for passenger trains. 1t seemed
such a good thing that afterwards he Sc
lected the orange for the freight trains. and
as the depots along the line needed freshen-
ing up he decided the standard color should
be applied to them and you will see moth
ing but orange depots with the standard
trimmings all the way from Cincinnati to
the sea. Water tanks are painted the
standard color. the block signal towers are
painted the standard color, and now the
agent at CuEoden, w. Va, who was un-
fortunate enough to lose leg several years
ago. has painted his wooden leg to c. & O.
standard color, with maroon trimmings"