Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-03
Maine Railroad Matters.
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At the Portland Car Co.'S works, %
fiat and box cars are being constructed
for the Penobscot Central Railway.
The Grand Trunk Railway is build
ing a siding at Bethel to be used by the
corn shop and chair shop companies.
G. F. Guptil. ticket agent for the
Rumford Falls Union station, has re-
signed and taken II position in a store
in Massachusetts.
The Boston & Maine Railroad has
placed with the Manchester locomotive
works an order for six ten-wheei
freight locomotives.
Four new box cars have been added
to the new rolling stock of the Btidg-
ton Railroad, making 81 freight cars
now on the line.
1t is not an unusual thing To see from
four to six loaded trains in the vicIn-
ity of the South Paris station. More
side tracks are needed.
Lots of new firemen have been hired
in anticipation OF the winter rush On
the Grand Trunk. and lots of those who
were employed last winter have re-
turned
Conductor William Cromwell has
been assigned TO trains II and 2. the
Boston & Maine Pullman, To fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Goa
ductor Armitage.
i. j. Hayes, who has been telegraph
operator at Hillside for several years.
has assumed a similar position at
Freeport. where he will be night opera
tor. The Hillside office is discontinued
=. A. Hesetine. the veteran Grand
Trunk engineer. has left the companys
employment; after faithful service of
more than 80 years, during which time
his luck" has never deserted him.
The new station building at Calais
which is to be of brick and stone trim,
mings, will not be finished until late IN
the winter or early spring. The CON-
pany will build within the next few
months brick freight depot at CALAIS.
All of the switches in the Grand
Trunk yard in Portland have been
marked with their names and numbers
50 that no mistakes about the LOCALITY
of different tracks or lines can be maze
in the future.
The Great Eastern Railway of Eng
land now has series of lantern slide
pictures, illustrating scenery and his
torical objects along the line of the
road. which are arranged. with suit
able descriptive matter, for public lee
lures or exhibitions. This ADVERTISING
matter is lent without charge to assoc
cations desiring to use il for evening.
entertainments.
The B. & S. River Railroad will hauI
nearly 100000 feet of timber over Tho
line the coming season to be delivered
at Young Bros. Hiram. A side track
ooo leet long Is being laid from the rail-
ROAD 10 their mill to furnish better
Iaclilties for transportation. The
Bridgton Lumber Company have pur-
chased 500 cords of birch bolts at diff
1erent stations along the line which the
railroad company will deliver at
Bridgton station as rapidly as possible.
by constant hammering for a long
time the bumpers and also the earth
embankment behind the same in the
Maine Central outward freight yard in
portland have been about knocked
down. 1t has been decided to finish
each track with an elaborate hummer
made OF ties piled up cob work fashion
and filled in with granite chips and
not very small chips either. Then if
the shifting engines succeed in knock
ing these down the company will think
about selling them to Uncle Sam to he
converted into rams for use in the
next war.
There is probability that the Grand
Trunk telegraph office at Portland will
again become a train dispatcher's
office. Some time ago the dispatchers
were all centralized at Island Pond and
the moving of trains has since been
done from that station. 1t is pretty
long stretch of wire. however. from
Portland to Island Pond. and during
the winter storms when blockades ar,
frequent 1t might often be desirable to
issue train orders from Portland. If
this is done the wire will be cut at
Gorham. N. H., and the dispatchlng
between that point and Portland win
be done from this, end.