The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-12-16
STILL e ONWARD" /"
Expansion Of the Oahu Railways
Plant.
THE TWO new LOCOMOTIVES
Heavier Than Old Ones-IInproved
Pattern-New Steel Laid-Curves
Reduced Bridges.
THE TWO new LOCOMOTIVES

The broad and ceaseless energy
shown in the Improvement and exten-
sion of the plant of the business of the
Oahu Railway and Land Company, is
characteristic of the shrewd and tire
less man at the head of the corporation.
Mr.. B. F. Dillingham's remarkable en-
terpirse has rather become feature of
the city, but new instances of it are be-
ing brought into evidence as each year
rolls around. Those who knew the
Oahu railway when it was on paper,
and who saw it actually materialize,
are scarcely yet prepared to give full
credit for what has been accomplished.
Within the past few months since
the construction of the line beyond
Waianae has been in progress, i'm
provements in the equipment and roll
ing stock have been made with a dash
and expenditure that would seem al
most reckless to the ultra-conservative,
but those on the outside are beginning
to see that each new movements fully
warranted before it is launched.
The bark Nuuanu brought the finest
Baldwin locomotive that the company
owns, and duplicate of this new iron
horse is being taken from the ship
Spies. Both these new engines have
SIX drivers as against four on the old
machines. They are capable of greater
speed and have more power than the
old locomotives. They weigh 80 tons
each. This size seems small when
compared to broad guage engines, but
it remarkable as narrow guage locomo-
tives go. One of these new machines
is already in use and the men who
are familiar with such things are de-
lighted with it. It was erected in the
newly built machine shop of the com
pany under the supervision of Master
Mechanic Henry Roberts and was more
than success on the trial trip. A
locomotive brought out for the Oahu
plantation was also put together in the
shop of fhe Railway Company. The
railways engine has not yet been
named A number of the employees
desire to honor the general manager
in this case, but have not yet obtained
his consent. He is partial to native
names for the locomotives.
The Spies had as portion of it's cargo
eight and one-half miles of rails that
will be laid for the extension around
Kaena Point. Much new steel has
been laid by the company during the
past few months, lighter rail being re-
placed. There is now 38-lb. steel all
the way from Halawa, near Moanalua to
| Waianae. The Peerless Preserving
Paint Company has just finished paint
| rust
About the middle of the summer the
Railway Company decided to remove
all the old bridges on the entire line
and put in new ones. This was big
job, requiring mapy thousands of feet
of heavy lumber and an immense
amount of work. This task was en-.
trusted to Jas. Carter, the company's
chief carpenter. The first thing he
did was to devise pile driver thai
could be used all the time without
forcing trains to stop. He fixed up {
trestle arrangement that is strong
successful and ingenious and that ha'
saved a lot of time and bother an(
money. Within a really short space o
time 25 new bridges have been put il
without ever stopping work on a givel
job during working hours or flag
ging train to halt. Few indeed ar
the railways in the United States tha
can show any achievement of thi
sort.
A number of curves have beel
Strengthened out to insure greater safe
ty and to permit higher speed sched
ule. The notable curves reduced with
in the past few weeks were at Waipio
Halawa and "Cape Horn" This worl
was undertaken at season when ther'