Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-03
News Of the Railroads.

| The Maine Central has ordered 50 box
| cars from the Pullman company. An adj
| ditional hundred probably will be or
/ dered later.
| The passenger trains on the Portland &
1 Rochester railroad are to be equipped
| with compressed air whistles to take the
1 place of the old bell cord signal
| Telegraph messages relating strictly to
| railroad business will no longer have to
! bear the war revenue stamp, according
10 a ruling by the government authori-
| ties.
| Providence r. l.. people are now glo-
rying in handsome new railway sta
| tion, which was opened by the New
| York. New Haven & Hartford Rail-
road Company.
The management of the electric line be-
tween Bangor and Old Town, has pro-
NOTED w. G.. Rice. formerly of Water
Vile. to the position of superintendent
made vacant BY the resignation of l. E.
Meloon, who is now managing the L. B.
q Il. line.
The ties for the Sanford and Kenne-
bunk trolley road have been strewn all
along the line and Alfred is to be petit
toned for the location of the rails along
the. edge of the town. The cars are all
built and lettered for the route and the
road Is coming along soon.
The grounds and buildings of the rail-
road terminus at Harrison, just COM
pleted, consist of a passenger depot
i0xiS feet: a freight house, TOKYO feet;
coal shed. 20xl5 feet; and engine house.
Tnerc is also a wooden water tank of
capacity of 1900 gallons supplied by
aqueduct from a spring on a neig'hbor-
ing hill.
The Westinghouse Air Brake Co,
was given the opportunity of securing
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brakes for the Siberian Railroad.1 But
the eampany was informed that to Sc
cure the contract the brakes must be
made in Russia. Not dismayed at
this prospect the offer was accepted
and now the machinery is being built
for the Russian branch. 1t is safe 10
say that Americans will man it and.
that the profits win come back to the
United States just the same as though
the brakes had been built here.
A new station has been ope lei g; bod
lin on the Somerset Railroad at the quar-
three miles this side of Norridgewoct..
The station is established on account of
the great rush of business at he quar-
ries where they are getting OFT 10 car
loads of granite day for the new Hol-
lingsworth & Whitney mill in Winslow
and half as much more for the jobs at
Ciu IoWi SLu w OIAS III dUuliIOH
to the regular run of work Heretofore
all the business OF the quarry has been
done from the Norridgewock station.
Leslie Witham, who has been assistant
at Madison. has been appointed station
agent at the new station. An additional
freight train has been put on between the
new station and Oakland.
The railway system in the United
States employs $500 locomotives. 26, 600
passenger cars and 5000 mail and baggage
cars; These figures seem large till the
number of freight cars is stated which is
100000. A passenger train consisting of
locomotive, tender, baggage and six pas
senger cars, with their contents, is esti-
mated to weigh about 1S4 tons. Freight
trains sometimes reach a weight of $50
tons. An ordinary passenger car costs
from $4,000 to $4,000. and a sleeping car
anywhere from $4,000 to $4,000. The sys-
tenn; with its gigantic equipment, is prac-
tically the growth of single generation
With the additions of another quarter or
half a century posterity ought to stand
But it will probab bly, be gradually edu-
Gated out of all its capacities of wonder,
as we nave been out of many of our own.
But few people realize the vast amount
railroad station during the summer. The
baggage masters have to be familiar
with all the railroads and connections in
the country for luggage is checked there
to all parts of the United States. - This
year the work of handling the incoming
baggage has been harder than ever be-
AOiS. iol III dCCoIudIico WITH orders Is
sued by the general baggage master of
the Boston & Maine system, a sliding
board has been used in unloading every
Trunk OF an, any size that arrived at the
peach. The total number of pieces of
baggage handled at the station this sum-
mer IN round numbers is 10000 During
July 5000 pieces We're received. while the
numper IN August was 1000. The record
Kept bv Baggage Master Frank A. Bry-
ant, during. the month of August shows
that ".s pieces We're loaded on to out
going trains. The largest number sent
out IN one day. was 600, on August 90
FIVE hundred pieces were checked out on
5 the 18th 9TH SO on the s0th. and 400 on the
for the month was 252. During the first
eight days in September 1900 pieces were
sent out. After the 10th day of the
to exert themselves. Agent Fernald is
now taking his annual vacation, and
Ilcket Seller Percy Googins is substitute
ing for him.
u me Two new ones just built at the Maine
central shops in Waterville. made its in
t ta TIP to Oakland attached to Conduc-
o eor John m, haxter,s train 1.-The scoot," re-
LOOKS well but is a thoroughly good car as
every part is made unon honor. 1t is the
Proc OF the workmen of the Water
,,Deen made there with the exception Of
me east.iron work for which the shop is
WOOD we. de9 1vnrlo me running gear the
and even the ground glass in the monitor
root; are all the product of the workmen
OF the shops and the best part of it all
Is the car has cost the Maine Central
Railroad Company no more money than
did similar ones that were built in shops
IN other states. No. 432. which is a per-
be ready for the road in a few DAYS. The
cars are OF the combination pattern, nalf
baggage and half smoker. They have
compartment and nine seats on each
side in the passenger compartment.
They are sheathed in side with white
WOOD; neatly grained and frescoed
IN the passenger room and natural
finish in the baggage end. In the smok-
ing part. the finish is haywood or Califor-
man mahogany and in every respect they
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