Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-23
In The Railway World.

The new branch railroad to Otis Falls IL
doing good freight business.
The Madawaska station on the
Aroostook Northern Railroad is nearly
completed.
A freight train of 40 cars was one of
the sights on the Maine Central Rail-
road recently.
The c. p. Railway has 10 dwelling
houses very nearly completed at Nc
Adam Junction. ~
The Portland and Cape Elizabeth Eiec-
trio Railway Company have leased the
Dyer mill property in Kmghtvilie. includ-
ing a fifteen acre pond. and intend TO open
an ice rink for the patrons of their road.
The steam shovel CT the Boston q
Maine Railroad. manned by some % or
30 1workmen, is operating on the line
of the Lake Shore road, cleaning out
the bitches and mending up the grade.
Ctas. Crowell of Orono, who has been
rurr.!ng as conductor on the r. o. & o.
express car. has been placed in charge of
the shipping department and his son.
William Crowell. is running on the ex-
press car.
When General Manager Evans of
the Maine Central finds that his trains
are not making time he gets up into
the cab and makes a personal study
of the cause. He generally finds n
remedy.
A new order has been promuicated on
the Boston and Maine Railroad. shorten
ing up the length of the warning con-
corning umbrellas, parcels and bundles In
cars. The new sentence Is concise:
Leave no articles in the cars" is shouted
out now by the brakeman in stentorian
tones.
The Grand Trunk Railway has applied
TO the Interstate commerce commission
for an extension of time beyond Jan. ].
1898. within which 1t is required to equip
its freight cars with automatic couplers
ard power or train brakes. and hearing
will be given at the Office of fhe commits
sion in Washington, ID. c.. on Dec. l.
A new plan for saving considerable dis
agreeable labor has been adopted by the
section men on the Belfast branch. At
intervals all along the line two posts are
set about 10 feet apart. Spikes are driven
into the posts ard spare rails laid or
tbs ns When rails are wanted IN the win
ter IL will not be necessary 10 dig them
from the ice.
Important improvements are being
made in the Boston and Maine freight
yard on Elm street. Biddeford. An
extra track which was very much
needed to accommodate the business
has been laid and the. yard is to he
filled in with crushed stone and
graded.
William Hogan, the NJ. c. r. r. flag
man at the Holland street crossing.
Lewiston. is holding his head very
high these days. because the painters
have decorated the inside of his shanty
.-;th tv-p &c Of inf ic he
only house on the NJ. c. r. r. that is
painted inside. says the Lewiston
Journal.
The Maine Central r. r. has a crew
of men laying the foundation for n
new water tank at Vanceboro, which,
when completed, will have a capacity
of 10000 gallons. The first tank built
for the NJ. C. r. r. is in good condi
ton and has a capacity of 1900 gal
Ions. When the new tank is completed
one man will do the work at the pump
ing station, which it now requires two
to do
While passenger traffic has been
good this year. the freight business has
not been as good as was hoped for
This is accounted for by the fact that
the apple crop. which generally fur
nishes great deal of business for the
Maine Central. is almost a total failure
this season. while there is also a short
age in potatoes. hay and other crops.
Lumber has been moved in fairly large
quantities.
Few people realize the extensive i'm
provements that the Grand Trunk
Railroad is carrying on on its property
in Portland. One of the first things
that attract attention is the heavy rail
that is being laid. A good many miles
of new track have been put down, and
the new rail weighs so pounds to the
yard. 1t looks as though it might
Withstand the wear and tear of a good
many years.
Two new closed cars for the Bangor,
Hampden & Winterport Railroad ar
rived at Bangor recently and Were
hauled to the car house on the Hamp-
den road. They will go into service a,
once. Up to this time a combination
passenger and baggage car and a pas
senger car have been running on the
line. but now the new cars will be run
and probably the combination car only
at certain periods when needed.
Much work is going on in the yard of
the Portland & Rumford Falls Railway
at Mechanic FAILS. The siding opposite
the passenger station is being extended
across Pleasant street to meet the siding
farther up the lire. and new one on the
opposite side is being built beyond Oak
street for the accommodation of local
freight, while the siding now used for
that purpose, will be occupied with trans
fer freight from the Grand Trunk The
for no Oa gtr Nsf x,yki ;c
in urioa6dng local freight from the cars
has been widened. also Railroad street OPP
pOsite the station.
The Boston & Maine Railroad IS
rapidly equipping its passenger cars
with the new system of communica-
ton between cars and locomotive, the