Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-06
News Of the Railroads.

The National Road Master Blacksmiths
Association Will hold its annual conven-
ton at Chicago. Sept. 7.
The Poland Paper Company is ship
ping ten cars of pulp wood per day
from Gilbertville to Yarmouth.
Three carloads of sulphlte per day
are shipped from the Rumford Falls
Sulphite mill TO Chisholm's mills.
The American Society of Railroad Su-
perintendonts will hold its next meeting
ut Nashville Tenn. beginning Sept. 2.
The Master Car and Locomotive Paint
ors Association win hold it's annual con-
vention at Old Point Comfort, Va. Sept.
The American Street Railway Associa-
ton win hold its sixth annual convention
/ in Convention hail. Niagara Falls, Oct.
lq-22.
| A cow belonging 10 Thomas Shirley was
killed on the Midtown branch of the c. J..
r., Saturday. The railway people will
make good the loss to the owner
The Association of Railway Supcrin-
tendents of Bridges and Buildings viii
hold its seventh annual convention at the
Brown Palace hotel, Denver, Col. be-
ginning Oct. 10.
At Riley. between three and four car
loads of brick are unloaded per day.
The walls of the screen room are nearly
| up and the Orders for the roof are be-
| ing placed.
! The Grand Trunk section crews are
laying new steel rails at South Paris
| The new rails are nearly twice as heavy
as the old II is said that the old rails
! have been bought by the oxford Central
| Railroad.
| The rails have arrived for the extern
| sion OF the Bangor, Hampden * Winter
! port Electric Railroad, and work will be
! begun Immediately ON the line from East
| Hampdeu to Hampden Lower Corner and
! Winterport.
| Isaac Record of Rumford Falls. cele-
/ bfated the 3tth anniversary of his begin
ming in railroad work Aug. 26. He has
| been conductor during - years. and his
| train has never had an accident or an in
jury to passenger or hand
| a special town meeting at Yarmouth.
| Wednesday. voted that the Portland &
! Yarmouth Electric road must pave be
! tween its rails and for a space of Is
| inches outside of them, and be located in
the middle of the road.
The first freight was taken out OF
| Chisholms Mills by the Portland &
Rumford Fails Railway, last week.
A passenger service win probably be
established on that branch when the
October change Of time occurs.
The railroad bridge across the An
droscoggin at Jay is completed, and the
rails viii be laid and other details corn
pleted so that trains on the Portland &
Rumford Falls Railroad viii begin to
run from Chisholm Mills in Jay 10
Gilbertville in Canton on Sept 16.
The Portland & Rumford Falls Rail
way have erected new freight sta
ton at Poland 1t is 20x6o. finished
outside to correspond with all their
stations and sheathed inside. In con-
nection is horse shed 80 feet long for
the accommodation of teamsters who
como from a distance.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad has or
dered ten locomotives from the Baldwin
locomotive works TO be al the Nauclain
compound type and weigh in working or
der about 10000 pounds, with $4,000
pounds on the driving wheels. The boil
ers and fireboxcs will be of steel and the
tubes OF iron. They will have the West
characterization air brakes on driving
and tender wheels.
The Bangor e. Aroostook Railroad de-
livered to the Maine Central Railroad
during the month of August 1897 Ai3
loaded cars. an increase of 54l. as COM
pared with the delivery for the cores
ponding month in 1896. This includes s.
$4,000 shingles from the Aroostook di-
1896. and Is the largest number of shingles
shipped from that division in any single
month since the Il. & A. was opened.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad is build
ing seven miles of road to replace the old
line between Mono and OrangeyiIle. Ont
The proposed line runs on the old road
bed of the Toronto. Grey q Bruce to En-
slewood Junction. The road now in use
has very steep grades and will be aban-
doned when the new one is completed 1t
is reported that engineers are surveying q
line from Robeson. b. c., south to con-
meet with the old survey from Rossland
To the Columbia river.
The Southern railroads are short Of
freight cars and are hanging or toI
every one they can beg, borrow or steel
in order to move the crops of that sec
ton. yet they ere far behind TIE de-
inands Of shippers. When the crop
are once at Underwater, 'car-tracers