The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-25

car and Pullman service This is consid-
cred TO be the fastest train ever run
regular schedule in that section of the
South.
the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, was in
me city yesterday With the putting on of
the new fast trains. one each way. by the
nave -FOUR last trains each way between St.
Louis and Philadelphia. the same number
as the Pennsylvania and Vandalia lines.
movement is on foot, suggested by the
Railway News Bureau, for the holding of
convention of railroad reporters at Chicago
or some other point. There are now over
three hundred papers. the News Bureau
says, which publish railway news depart
ments, and it Is thought that such a gather
ing might be pleasant and profitable one
An impression exists that but few inter-
changeable mileage books are sold at other
than terminal division points. This is a
mistake. AT Columbus, on the Louisville
division of the Pennsylvania lines, in 1898
there were sold 372 books, and at number
OF other points on the Pennsylvania lines
two hundred or more books were sold last
year.
The railroads of the country have been
notified by the postal department that on
Tuesday, March IS the weighing of the
mails will begin. Every railway company
it carries mail, and reports are made from
actual records. From these reports con-
tracts Tor new periods of service are en-
A Columbus Qnd) company has invented
new motor car. the power to run ii being
a gasoline engine. 1t was tested on Sunday
bus and Hope, and ran forty miles an hour.
Tomorrow another test will be made be-
tween Columbus and Shelbyville. A speed
regulator on an entirely new principle Is an
other feature of this motor car.
An Erie official yesterday said: much is
heard about fast trains at present, but sell
dom Is the Erie counted in. while IL has one
OF the highest speeded trains i'm the country,
Train o. yest-bound. Between Marion and
Chicago the train is scheduled 42ls miles an
hour: The track IS straight. curves light
six cars at such speed, stops 10 be de-
Quoted"
The st. Louis. Vandalia & Terre Haute
Railroad Company, whose railroad is leased
to the Terre Haute & indianapolis Com
pany: has agreed to furnish Receiver Ma
lott $4,000 to be expended by him during
the current year in providing additional
sidings, correcting curves and interlocking
crossings with other railroads on the line
of the st. L.. v. 4 t. H., which is the part
of the Vandalia line through Illinois.
The project of building a new Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION headquarters at Pitcairn has been
reopened and Superintendent Robert Pit
cairn says the matter will soon be taken
up with the board That the building will
be likely to be according to plans made
several years ago when the project was
side-tracked is probable. The building will
cost upward of SO, 600.
Andrew Reasoner, superintendent Of the
eastern division of the Lackawanna road
will be succeeded by e. w. Russell, now
superintendent of the Rome, Watertown &
Ogdensburg. Mr. Reasoner is seventy-six
years of age and has been in his present
official position since 1859. On the same date
5: Griffith, for many years SUPERINTENDENT
OF bridges, buildings, ETC., will retire.
The fact that the Big -Four is again in
Toledo with through train will heighten
the competition between that road and the
Cincinnati, Hamilton d Dayton The dis
1nHf INgr hut he
Four is 161 miles. and from Carey to To-
ledo fifty miles, making the through dis
lance III miles, BY the Cincinnati, Hamil.
ton Il Dayton the distance from Cincinnati
to Toledo is 202 miles, making a difference
of but nine miles. This will make way for
some speed competition that will be inter-
esting to watch.
The Ohio Southern and the Detroit & Lima
Northern, heretofore close friends. are hav-
the former. The Ohio Southern has quit the
Detroit * Lima Northern depot at Lima,
o., ana gone TO its own, and hereafter will
puted the right of the Detroit x Lima
Northern To about two miles of track north
from the Ohio Southern terminus TO the De-
trolt a Lima Northern depot. The Detroit
d Lima Northern uses the tracks of the
OHIO southern TO st. Johns for the Column
bus line and will probably be compelled TO
build line of its own.
The Lake Shore is buying a supply of new
engines, a number of which are being re-
ceived daily. The ultimate intention is TO
get one hundred OF the best freight engines
TO be had The Brooks locomotive works
at Dunkirk n. Y, has the contract. The
engines are ten-wheelers and CONSOLIDATED
and are guaranteed to haul fifty cars, ag-
gregating 1900 tons. from Chicago To Buffa-
10, distance of 5+5 miles, in thirty hours
on test they hauled seventy cars. bear
ing thirty-five tons of coal each, from Ash
tabula to Buffalo on schedule time The
capacity of the old engines forty cars
The strength of the old engines is just 81
per cent. of the new ones. Heretofore l00.-
900 pounds has been the standard weight
for locomotives on the Lake Shore road.