The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-06

transmissouri river roads. the higher rate
to apply from points in the Eastern COM
mittee territory of the association.
Next month the Vandalia will put on a
fast passenger train to leave Terre Haute
at / p. m. and reach st. Joseph at 1880 p. m.
The answering train will leave st. Joseph at
1:30 D. m. and reach Terre Haute at 1890 p.
M. the trains to be run daily. This will be
the best service ever furnished on the Michi-
gan division.
The Big Four will run seven excursion
trains to this city on Sunday-one from
Cincinnati one from Irouuis on the Chica go
Wabash on the Michigan division: one from
Union City on the Decline division one
from Savona on the Peoria division east
and one from Peoria on the p. & E. west
ern division.
Mention was made a few days ago that
the Brice people had recalled the engineer
Akron, o.. to New Castle. Pa. Now it is
learned that negotiations are about perfect
ed by which the Pittsburg & Western, which
the Brfce lines were to parallel, is to be
made a dOuble-track road, and the tracks
VIII be used jointly between Pittsburg and
Akron.
The Vandalia and the Pennsylvania. lines
VIII make a new departure this year in the
running of trains to Michigan pleasure re-
sorts. A through car will be hauled be-
tween st. Louis and Mackinaw via Indian
apolis and the Grand Rapids & Indiana
The car will leave st. Louis at / p. M. In
dianapolis az p. M, and reach Mackinaw
DIT III o CLOCK next morning. In years past
this car has been run via Logansport
II. Moore. general utility man on the
Chicago & Southeastern, is in the city, He
states that the work on the extension from
Anderson to Muncie, eighteen miles. is be-
ing pushed. Fifteen miles OF the distance
is graded. and the steel rails and ties are
on the ground for the track The company
has completed its crossing of the Panhandle
tracks, over which some trouble was an
ticipated. Mr.. Moore says that in short
time their trains will be running into Mum
cic.
The new engines designed by ]. H. Barnes
superintendent of motive power of the Wa
bash lines, are attracting a good deal of at
tention among experts in that line. as Mr.
Barnes ranks as one of the best mechanics
in the country. He began work as a ma
chinist in the Pittsburg. Fort Wayne &
Chicago shops in 1856; in 1862 he went with
the Wabash as general foreman of the ma
chinery department and in 1882 had reached
the position of superintendent of motive
power of the Wabash with headquarters at
Springfield, Ill. In his long term of service
many improvements of his designing have
been made to locomotives not only on the
Wabash, but on other roads.
One of the great troubles that railroad
companies have had to contend with in the
past, with both the old style and the new
couplers, was the falling of drawheads on
the tracks. resulting many times in disas-
trous wrecks. A year or two ago the Balti-
more & Ohio adopted a device to prevent
such occurrences, and has since attached
it to all its passenger equipment. The de-
vice is quite simple. consisting merely of a
right-angled steel hook. which is placed i'm
mediately beneath the coupler on the draw
head. with horizontal arm projecting
slightly at an angle to the direction of the
track When the drawhead falls the safety
hooks not only assist In tanning the draw
heads together, but absolutely prevent their
swaying from side to side and thus becom-
ing disengaged-