Evening star., 1896-06-18
RAILROAD MATTERS
Contracts Awarded for the New B.
and O. Locomotives.
COAL SAVED BY COMPOUND ENGINES
Honors in Store for WeII-Known
Passenger Officials.
He F A ST FIR E I G. H T

General Manager Greene of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company day or
two ago awarded a contract for twenty
ocomotives to the Baldwin locomotive
works CT Philadelphia. This completes the
awarding of contracts for the seventy-five
engines which the court recently author
lied the receivers to purchase.
OF those to be built by the Baldwins. one
half will be for the passenger department
and the others for the freight department,
and the former will be of the ten-wheel
type, with driving wheels six and half
feet in diameter. while the group of twenty
will be the largest in use On the road.
The Richmond Va, locomotive works are
now building twenty-five freight locomo-
tives for the Baltimore and Ohio, the
Cooke locomotive works are building ten
and the Pittsburg locomotive works
twenty. The management of the frs.
named works has received an order from
the Big Four company, Cleveland, Cincin-
natl, Chicago and St. Louis railroad. to
convert sixty of the largest locomotives of
the latter from simple to compound en-
sines as rapidly as the work can be done
in the shops.
Saves 400 Tons n Year.
1t is stated that the big Four has been
making experiments for several years and
has found that the compound principle, as
applied in the Richmond works, insures a
saving Of about 400 tons of coal year
without loss Of power or extra expense
This is said by railroad men to be the
greatest revolution ir locomotive building
for number of years.
The position of terminal agent at Balti-
more has been created by the receivers of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
and Mr. George II. Campbell. a railway
man of great experience, has been put in
charge of the department. He will have
the superintendent Of all the freight
agents in and about Baltimore, who have
heretofore reported to General Superinten-
dent Fitzgerald. His headquarters will be
at Camden station.
Completing the New Station.
The new ard handsome passenger sta
uon of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company near the north end of the Belt
line TUNNEL in Baltimore is almost COM
pleted. and will. 1t is expected, be put into
service in the course of a few days. The
new depot is equipped with every modern
device for the comfort Of the travelling
public, and while not so large some
some other railroad stations in this
ton of the country, Is superior in many
respects to most of them The depot will
be known as Mount Royal station. and
after 1t Is opened to the public Camden
station will be abandoned so far as through
traffic Is cor cerned, and only local trains
between Washington and Baltimore and
other points within a hundred of miles OF
Baltimore will have their terminus there.
The fast freight service of the Baltimore
and Ohio to the west via Washington
which. as already stated in The Star. was
II augurated few weeks ago. has been so
ST ccessful that 1t has been extended to
Cleveland and other lake points. The SER
vice has heretofore been limited to Column
bus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and st. Louis
MIR. Scull to BE Promoted.
Within the past few days the report has
been revived that Mr.. Charles o. Scull who
for some years has been general passenger
agent Of the Baltimore and Ohio is to be
promoted In the near future to the position
of passenger traffic manager, AN Office which
will be created for him. 1t is further re-
ported that after Mr.. Scull assumes his
new duties there will be two general pas
st nger agents for the system, one of whom
presumably Mr.. James M. Schryver. now
assistant general passenger agent at Balti-
more. will have charge of the business east
of the Ohio river, while the lines west Of
that line will be placed under Mr. John NJ
Cheeseborough, who now has charge of
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern business
OILY.