El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-10

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The Sa ia F'e railroad has found its
new "California limited very prof.
able and will incrt d Sc the train service
from twice week to three times
week.
, With 100, 600 tons Of Alabama Goa
going to MeXiaO for the use of her al
road locomotives in cOmpetitio1 with
English coal, it looks Il though a new
field is open TO the south for her rich
products
A S ,nta Fe conductor aud engineer
recently busted a caboose by making a
running switch improperly. F. ten
days, both are Off fishing for bull frogs
and ACCOMMODATING material for fish
stories.
The prettiest run ever made by No.
6 betwe n La Junta and Dodge City,
says the La Junta Trib upe, was made
by Engineer Ed. Robins n, whep, with
engine SIS, the run of POP miles was
made in four hours and fifteen minutes.
Deducting the u me lost in stOpp ng,
the actual running time was sixty
miles on hour.
| The federal court in Kansas City has
been called upon to decide whether Is
rael HeuderliJer, who formerly live d
in Prescott, Arizona, is entitled to
S22, 600 which be has demanded of the
Santa Fee railway for being elected
from one of the comrany's trains at La
Junta, Colo. When This place was
reached, the COMP i0aIt says he was
fOrcibly elected from the train. al
though he nad at the ii ne slip of pa
per in his haihand SHOWING thai b. 8
ticket had bsen PIT nched 10 Kansas
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SO delayed that he lost the opportunity
of selling mine at Prescott, losing
thereby 10000. He has sued for that
amount, the price of the ticket, $50 for
extra board and loss of time and $1,000
for menta anguish.
N. H. Heft, chief of electrical de-
part nent New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad, says: ''Our eXper-
fence with overhead trolleys at Nam
tasket beach has not been satisfactory.
We find it quite impossible to prevent
the destruction of trolley wheels by
almost continual archipg when attempt
ing to take from the wire the heavy
current required in starting, and dur
ing ac celeratiOn. There has been a
good deal of trouble, moreover, in
keeping the trolley oa She wire in max
ing speed, and many trolley poles have
been broken. These difficulties have |
been an important influence in causing
us to reach a decision in favor OF the |
third rail. The contact shoes, which |
take the cure ut from the rail to the |
motor circuit, have given good sasis- |
faction.
At the atratford works of the Great |
Eas ern railway, according to an Eng |
fish paper, a locomotive was recently |
built in ten hours. It was main line |
freight engine with tender. B fore |
the actual constr uction commenced the |
various competent parts ware PLACED |
close at hand, ready for fitting to-
gether. fhe wordmen began early in |
the M rning aud continued brisklY |
until the breakfast bell sounded, and |
after half an hours lest the woramen |
returned to their task and labored |
steadily until the dim T. hour, and !,
thus the great work proceeded until |
the engine was at la st com pletsd, with |
the exc option of a coat of paint, f1e |
latter was quickly laid on by mea IS of |
g spraying machine, and in less than a
half an hour was perfectly dry. In
mediately after this the locomotive
was sent on trial journey a few miles |
on the line, and ali proving satis'ac-
tory, it was sent with freigh. train TO
Petarboro. 1t has be en- in active SER
vice ever since. and is j-stly re-
garded as marvel of engineering !
quickness,
A locomotive was recently built for |
the Cape Government r Railways, of |
South Africa, by the Baldwin LocomO- |
tive Works, of Philadelphia, Pa. The |
engine is one of six, intended for pas |
senger service, and designed to cons
sumo an inferior quality OF coal as |
fuel. They are fer a track of 3 feet 6 |
inch gauge, which is the standard !
fri
They are of the Atlantic type resem-
bling somewhat an eight-wheel engine,
but with the driving whaeis set for
ward of the hrebox, ami having !
small pair OF trailing wheels under the ,
drebox, so that the engine has ten !
wheels, only four of which are driving |
wheels The engine is OF distinctly |
American appearance, aud is equipped |
with pilot, circular headlight, extern |
sion smoke box, ETC., but it has no bell, |
and the brake hose is not for the |
lish automatic vacuum brake. The |
croSsbead is deep and OF the ''alliga- |
tor" pattern, with two slide bars. The |
rear driving wheels are the main |
and the connecting and side |
reds are all of l section. In the equal !
ling arrao cement it will be seen that |
the rocker over the trailing axle box |
is connected by hangers, with the !
drive" spring eQualiHer and with an
inverted semi=eltiptioal spring seated |
under the rear end of the main frame. !
and is carried on two passenger trucks,
with inverted semi-elliptical springs,
sea led on the equaliZers.
San Diego and Arizona.
The annexation of San DIEGO county