Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-12-15
A DAY with
The RAILROADS
TrackIaying on the Richmond, Pc
tersburg & Carolina Completed.
TWO BIC ORDERS GIVEN
Tho senbonrd AIR Line. ana Chcsn.
pcaho and Ohio ana Norfolk nn,,
Observation-Disclosures viliLarEe,yIn-
/: crease Ro,iins stochs- Now steam
or For Norroik-No Newport News
Ferry Hu,nors OF Consolidution.

Ferry umors of Consoltdution.
The laying OF the track of the Rich
mond, Petersburg and Carolina rail
road--thc northern division Of the Sea-
board Air Line System-from Peters
Lug TO Ridgeway, was completed yes
tcrday. But little work remains to be
done on the Meherrin bridge before that
line, seventy-seven miles in length, can
be opened the entire length for traffic.
Work is being pushed forward with
all possible energy and haste. Tho
company is having the temporary tres
tie here built under its own direction,
INSTEAD of letting it to contract. Pres-
dent Williams said last night that
trains would almost certainly be rum
ming into Richmond by the end of Jan
uary.
I'VE are making excellent progress
on our South Carolina Division. too"
said Mr.. Williams. and that will be
open from Columbia to Cheraw by the
first OF the year. This division is nine
ty miles in length. The rails have been
LID for twenty-five miles, and the work
Is going forward nicely
BIG ORDER FOR ENGINES.
Orders were given yesterday for the
construction of twenty-five more loco
motives for the .Seaboard Air Line
system.
This makes the total number OF ell
snes now building, or to be built at
once, for the Ssaboard. fifty. orders for
twenty-five having been given Mon
day. This is probably the largest or
der for locomotives ever contracted for
by Southern road at one time.
The deliveries of the engines will he
gin In April, and that of the cars i'm
February. The twenty-five engines
ordered from the Richmond Locomotive
and Machine Works are ten-whecl
freight moguls. Twenty of those or
dered yesterday are to be mammoth
elght-wheelers for the passenger SER
vice. and five are. to be switch engines
Of the latest type.
THE CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO.
The Chesapeake and Ohio is receiving
twensy-fiv new locomotives, ana has
Just placed an order for twenty five
more Mr.. w. S. Morris, superintendent
or motive power OF the Chesapeake and
ONO, Is In Chicago for the purpose of
crossing contract with the Pullman
Company for 1000 coal cars. Nine hun
dreds OF them are to be hopper cars and
t00 or the fi;it bottom variety.
The Virgininn-Pi has mentioned
mat a new passenger steamer capable
ot making the trip between this city
AND Newport News in forty minutes IL
10 be put on the line between the two
cities. The new steamer will shorten
the time thirty-ilve minutes.
NORFOLK AND WESTERN.
The Norfolk and Western is having a
large number of locomotives built in
Richnond, and 100 100, 600 pound freight
Cars In the shops at Roanoke. Mr.. r.
Kirk, travelling freight agent of the
Norfolk and Western. says that the
heaviest train ever run over the road
from Roanoke to Norfolk was run one
day last week. 1t was composed of
nineteen cars. the weight OF each in
Guiding the load, being 100.0 900 pounds.
THESE cars attracted considerable at
tention on their arrival in this city and
during their stay at Lambert's Point.
WITH THE S. A. L.
Mr.. John Scott OF New York, former
ly vice presdent and general manager
of the Eilenger System, which includes
the Queen and Crescent route between
Cincinnati and New Orleans, is now
with the Scaboard, and will assist Pres
idcnt Williams. and Col. II. M. r. Tai
colt in the perfecting of the Seaboard's
new system. Mr.. Scott is man prom
inent In railroad circles. and is the
builder of the New Orleans and North
Eastern railroad.
RUMORS or CONSOLIDATION.
II is rumored that Frederick W. Van
dcrbit and associates, who control both
the Norfolk, Virginia Beach and South
ern and the Norfolk and Southern rail
roads, will consolidate the two proper
ties by n formal sale OF the Virginia
Beach to The Norfolk and Southern cor.
noration This arrangement is expect
ed to be consummated january ith
Both properties are to be fully level-
oped and placed upon an up-to-date
footing.
JIM CROW CARS.
A special from New Bern says:
The separate car law has been en-
tended by the mana cement Of the Al
lantic and North Carolina railroad 10
the waitlng-rooms at the station. Sep
arate rooms are assigned to the races
y big hand points to one door With tho
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