El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-04-14
CORRALITOS ROAD NOTES.
The Werk Being Pushed Ahead Faster
Than Ever.

ludu Ever.
The two new Baldwin engines have
arrived from Philadelphia. They ar.
of the Mogul pattern, that is, with
three pair of drivers and truck with
single pair of wheels: but the boiler j!
arranged after the hog" style. that i:
it extends almost through the cab, anC
| the epginemen sit on either side of the
| boiler. This arrangement allows OF
such disposition OF the drivers tina
curves can be rounded easier. The
| cylinders ore 20X26 with Al feet drivers
and with the 80 inch boiler, such 4
machine can do an immense amount oil
work. The engines are numbered ~
and p, and are handsomely decorated
in black and gold. The first machine
was taken over last night, and the other
goes from the T. P. round house this
evening. This gives the railroad COM
pany five engines and two more, bough nj
from the 1. & G. N, will be along this
month. With seven engines the COM
pAny can work to much better advan-
tage than ever before. Numbers q and
p are as smart as crickets,, and p was
doing lively switching through the
yards this morning. Number 20, the
first Mogul is 20 tons machine, but
the two new Baldwins are 50 ton en-
gines.
Hauling brick for the shops is under
way and superior building stone has
been contracted for at Socorro, n. NJ,
for the water tank foundations down
the road. The management is much
gratified at the fine supply of water
already secured.
position, thus relieving the engines
from travelling around the "Y" to turn
around.
The present blacksmith shop is being
enlarged as it has become too small for
the demands made upon it.
A long string of cars are in the G..
H. yards with material for the Corrali-
tos road. The company is bringing in
its new cars loaded with track mater
ial, 80 that there is less call for cars of
foreign corporations. A long line of
empty flats belonging to the Southern
Pacific that had come loaded with rails,
were returned this noon to the Amer
lean side.
The Juarez pump house has been COM
pleted, and the water mains are being
laid through the yards.
Ten miles Of track were built, be-
tween last Wednesday and Saturday,
and Manager Ramsey proposes to make
it three and half to four miles per
day. In order to accomplish this, he
has had built, movable trans in which
trans are fastened onto the sides of the
fiat cars carrying the steel, making a
continuous way from the rear to the
front of the train carrying the rails.
So instead OF the rails being carried by
hand they are merely rolled over onto
the tram spools and away they go to
where the ties are ready for them.
There are 500 men out at the end of
the line, and thirty-fve car loads of
material are being sent out daily.
The company will build to the river
as soon as the material is at hand, and
the Southern will continue from the
river to Sixth street in Ell Paso The
road will have its own tracks along
Sixth street to the T. & P. and G. ii.
junction where it can make its own i'm
mediate connections and be indepen-
dent of any other company for transfer
switching.
The found alton for the freight house
is in, and rock is being hauled for the
passenger station.
The yards are now pretty we'll filled
in.