Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-02-09
Railroad and Steamship News.


there will be ten or twelve carloads Ct
poplar and spruce loaded at Dover eac.l
day.
Freight trains Nos. $40 and 241 of the
Eastern division of the Boston ar1
Maine railroad have been discontinue |
on account of lack of business.
Heater cars are run from Boston Ia
Dover and Foxcroft over the Mains.
Central every week leaving Boston
Thursday nights and arriving at Dover
Friday night.
The Portland and Rumford Fall;
railroad has just received two very
fine large locomotives from the
Schenectady locomotive works. Their
numbers are 10 and IL.
The freight business of the Maine
Central has increased greatly since the
snow came and extra trains are being
run to haul the freight, while the reg
ular ones are long and heavily loaded.
Capt. Zina Webber of Boothbay, has
made forty trips in his coaster Pendle-
ton, the last year, beating any previous
record by four trips. He made the lat
est trip up the Damariscotta this win
ter of any year before.
Last year the steam vessels in the
Boston district carried 19,437,2O pas
sengers, and out of all these only three
lost their lives. Aboard steamboat
would seem to be about as safe Il
place as one could find.
Freight business continues steadily
good on the Bangor & Aroostook rail
road. One day recently the company
delivered to the Maine Central g,
freight cars, SO of which contained 20
tatoes. The tubers are moving briskly.
There have been shipped 6e1 full cars
of freight, containing not less than 80,
oo0 pounds of freight, during the yea
1870 from Monson Junction station.
rms makes it the banner station on the
Piscataquis division of the B. & A. r.
r.
The foreman and all the help on tho
Maine Central quarry at Jay have been
discharged and it is understood the
quarry will not be worked again at
present, as the company contemplate
having it's stone work done by contract
in the future.
The Bangor & Aroostook Railroad
Company has received lot of 4OS fiat
cars from Berwick, Pa. The company
also has on the way from the same
place 1856 box cars. The coming of
the snow has given a fresh start to tile
freight business. Potatoes are being
carried in large quantities.
Among the wood soon to be shipped
over the Sebasticook & Moosehead rail-
road, is 200 cords of pulp wood and SO
cords spool wood owned by F. ]. Cars
ley and between SO and 100 cords of
spool wood to be manufactured at F.
l.. Smiths lumber mill. President
Lancaster says that business is bound
to be good on his line from now on as
long as the snow lasts.
The lumbermen at Lynchville have
begun to get out ties and trolley poles
for the new electric road, 1t is nov,
proposed to extend it to North Lowell,
and an island Of GOO acres in Kezar
pond has been purchased and will be
made into pleasure grounds for excur-
siOns from the cities. The island is
already favorite resort for students
from the Massachusetts, colleges dur
ing the hot season.
New York Central baggage cars are
being equipped with a new rack for
holding bicycles The wheel is held
against the side of the car by hard
wood block and the handlebar is
clasped by a steel spring. The blocks
are arranged in alternating rows so
that bicycles may be placed one foot
apart without interference. By this
arrangement, it is thought, saddles,
enamel, and nickelled parts are fully
protected, and the tires only are ex-
posed to any risk or damage. 1t is nee
essary, however, to remove lamps, as
they would overflow.