The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-26
Personal, Local and General Notes.

George c. McNally has succeeded NJ. Por-
terrified as trainmaster of the Illinois Central.
III. t. Porter has been appointed chief en-
gineer of the Pittsburg, Bessemer & Lake
Erie.
The Lake Shore, in the three months end
ing Sept. 50, earned, gross, $5,2lS,6S4, an in
crease of 203S,2S7.
A. ]. Wilde has been appointed secretary
OF the Kansas City transportation bureau,
vice c. E. Perkins, resigned.
e. +. Cost, general freight agent of the
Big. Four lines, took dinner yesterday with
Indianapolis relatives.
]. A. Cartwright tranmaster of the Big
Four's Michigan division, returned yester-
day from three weeks visit in Texas.
Commencing on the 2Sth Trains IS and 10
on the Pennsylvania lines, between Louis
Vile and Chicago, will not be run on Sun
day.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul will
build a $2C0,0O0 passenger station at Min
neapclis, beginning the work in the early
spring.
1t now requires 40 per- cent. more loco
motive power to handle the freight traffic
of the Lake Shore than it did in November
last year.
of the Philadelphia division of the Baltimore
&, Ohio succeeding John Barron, transferred
to the Pittsburg division.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy will
build six locomotives at it's shops at Bur
lington Ia. designed by the superintendent
of motive power of the 20.
The new cars of the Big Four are APP
Fearing in the yards here and are attracting
q good deal of attention, they being very
superior cars in construction.
The Wabash earned in the second week of
November $257,275 an increase over the cor
responding week of last year of $21, 744. Since
July an increase of $669,0O7 is shown.
Train IL on the Panhandle when leaving
Pittsburg, ,haus nine postal cars and three
or four express cars, and makes its fast time
with the Class engines between Pittsburg
and Columbus.
The Baltimore & Ohio management is
contemplating expanding a good deal of
money on its Chicago division in rebuilding
bridges, trestles, etc, one to be a bridge over
| Muskinghum river, six hundred feet long.
| The first three weeks of November the
| freight earnings of the Louisville x Nash
corresponding twenty-one days of 1885, Pas
| senger earnings were not as large as last
| year.
| President Duval, of the Florida Central d
| Peninsular, announces that ID. f.. Maxwell
has been elected vice president of the road.
Mr.. Maxwell will continue TO perform the
duties of general manager. He was for
scme years connected with the Erie, rep
| resenting it in indianapolis territory.
| One of the new monster freight engines
on the Pittsburg az Lake Erie has already
made record hauling seventy-three loaded
| cars from McKees Rocks to Youngstown.
| The heaviest engines the company owned
before ordering the new ones could haul
but forty-five loaded cars over that piece of
track.
For the week ending Nov. 20 the inter-
change between the c., l. & L. and the c.
II. * d. via Indianapolis, in the territory
represented by George S. Brecount, CONNER
cial agent. shows an increase over the cor
responding week of 1896 of 16l cars; for the
three weeks ending Nov. % an increase of
449 cars.
NJ. r. Lewman & Co, contractors of
Louisville. have been awarded the contract
to erect all the buildings on the extension
OF the Mobile & Ohio TO Montgomery. The
contract is for all depots, shops, round
houses and other buildings, a total of 142
buildings. representing over 100000 The
work is to be commenced at once.
The new winter schedules for the Queen
q Crescent route go into effect Sunday, Dec.
5, at which time vestibuled trains will leave
Cincinnati daily. The time Will be twenty
-FOUR hours To Jacksonville and New Orleans.