The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-25
that commodity. The committee heard ar
guments oH the part of number OF officials
Of the interested roads.


that commodity. The. committee heard ar
guments oH the part of a number OF officials
Of the interested roads.
Despite the denial of General Manager
Ramsey, that his road will not build line
from Toledo to Montpelier, surveying par
ties are locating such line, and when built
it will. it is thought, be utilized by the Wa
bash for Toledo-Chicago line.
A. A. Zion states that every engine owned
by the Belt Railroad Company is in service
day and night, and that he will be obliged
to lease q couple from some of the roads
If business continues as heavy as at pres
ent, the transfers exceeding $4,000 cars per
week.
A scheme is now on foot TO take the
Queen & Crescent out of the hands of the
receiver. This cannot be done until the
judgment in the Dougherty overissue has
been settled, and the movement looks to
paying off this judgment against the com
pany.
1t is announced that the Wabash will soon
begin to run freight trains as we'll as pas
senger trains through from Detroit TO Buff
falo over the Grand Trunk, and belief pre-
walls that in the end that part of the Grand
Trunk system will be absorbed by the
Wabash.
Mr. w. j. Hartman, the Big -Four air.
brake expert. while inspecting brakes last
week found that those on the trains popu-
larly known as "the White City specials
plying between Cincinnati and Chicago, are
almost perfect in condition. Proficiency,
9S5 per cent.
II. II. Sessins, for many years general
manager of the Pullman car works and
later connected with prominent railroads
president and general manager of the
Standard Coupler Company. The Standard
steel platform was of his designing.
The Pennsylvania Company is building at
its shops in Columbus three baggage cars
without platforms If the new departure
is successful it is the intention of the COM
pany to remove the platforms of all their
baggage cars. The change Is favored by
the master car builders for both baggage
and express cars
The Pennsylvania Company for months
past has been giving more attention to the
developing of its Toledo division and the
results, says one of the officials. have been
very gratifying 1t is stated that measures
are now under consideration which will still
further Increase the business of that di-
vision.
The Indiana, Decatur & Western shops
are running full time, and working the lar
gest number of men in their record. Three
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton engines and
two Indiana, Decatur q Western engines
are being rebuilt in the machine shops, and
five coaches in the car shops. In the freight
department fifty cars per month are being
rebuilt.
tive power of the Big Four, on Sunday re-
turned from Dunkirk, where the Brooks
locomotive works are building six engines
for the Big Four Mr.. Garstang says these
works are employing full complement of
men and running nights to catch up with
their orders. These works have just COM
pleted a contract to build twenty standard
locomotives for the Lake Shore This order
was executed in remarkably quick time,
and after the deliveries commenced they
were shipped at the rate of seven engines a
week.
The closer relations being established be-
tween the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
and the Indianapolis Decatur & Western.
ard the purchase by each of the roads of
1000 new cars, makes Il evident that the In
dianapolis division of the Cincinnati. Hamil-
ton d Dayton is to become more important
line to the system through it's connection
with the Indianapolis Decatur & Western,
as neither the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day
ton nor the Indianapolis, Decatur e. West
ern for the last two years has been able
to supply orders for cars which legitimately
belongs to the two roads, having to depend
too much on connections and fast freight
lines to help them out in the matter of
cars With these new cars the Cincinnati,
Hamilton * Dayton will be one of the best
equipped per mile of any of the roads in
this section.