The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-05-03
RAILROAD NEWS.

out of Denver.
-Conduetor c. f Helm was in Pueblo
last Friday
brakeman miller has been laying of
few days
a large number of big engines have
passed throuh fer tie west this week.
-washonts IN Colorado delayed some
OF the trains on Monday and Tuesday.
-Tr;airmaster J. w. Dean. of Ia
Janta. was II Dodge Thursaay evening
on official business.
Monday morning the Santa Re road
shipped fourteen cars of stock for SiegeI
q Saunders, Kansas City. and eighteen
ears for the Kansas City Live stock
Commission Company Harry Hood yep
resented the cattle company.
4 very heavy rain fell Sunday night.
the water coming down in torrents and
flooding the whole country. The Santa
F'e tracks be tween this city and Rocky
Ford, were washed out for distance of
1900 feet aud all trains were delayed un-
til late Monday afternoon The track
south. near Benton, was also washed ont
/ and all trains were delayed twenty -four
hours. There was no damage done III
this city. the cellars escaping being
flooded for the first time.-La Junta Tri-
bune.
In all probability the Santa Fe man
! agement will place new Colorado train
in service about June Is.
/ This new train will run from Kansas
| City to d enver and viii be very fast
one. In appoI ntnents and equipment ii
will compare favor ably with the Santa Fe
limited. 1t viii leave Kansas City about
s or p. arriving at Colorado Springs
about noon the following day, and at
! Denver 3 O'Clock. This new daily
Kansas City Denver train win improve
| the Santa Fe service between these two
points, and place the road in a position to
better handle the immense Colorado
traffic which IS expected during the com
ing summer.
Instructions have been issued by the
mechanical department of The Rock
Island, that all passenger coaches of the
road must be equipped with steel plat
forms. Already many have been equip
/ ped and fast as the coaches can be
| spared from the daily service, they are
! run into the shops and Old platforms
taken off and replaced with new steel
ones
This move the part of the Roc K
Island is in the interest of safety, as well
as the superiority of the steel platforms
| oyer the old style wooden ones. Geo.
| E Wilson, Superintendent of Motive
Powe. and Equipment, of the road, says
in regard to the steel platform: 1T IS the
greatest Improvement to passenger equip
fnent of recent date, and in conjunction
with the present wide vestibuling OF our
coaches and trains, in point of solidity
and strength, is the nearest approach to
| perfection yet attained ="
| There is an Interesting story in connec-
/ ton with this change OF wooden to steel
/ plat forms. A short time ago, there was
an accident II the yards of one of the
roads centering IN Chicago, which proved
| to be great object lesson. A passenger
coach, standing on side track was run
/ into with considerable force, by a switch
engine. The accident proved disastrous
TO the engine, as it had its front end stove
in, while the only damage done to the
coach was the breaking of several panes
of glass, and a slight straTning and
splintering of the end The coach was
| equipped with steel platform, and this
protected the car from serious damage
C. NJ Taylor, master mechanic of
the New Mexico division with headquar-
ters at Ration, succeeded II. E, Clucas,
master mechanic of the western division
yesterday, this being the first step in the
contemplated concentration of the shop
1 forces Of the two divisions at this point.
The Ration shops Will follow piece by
piece just as the Coolidge shops did when
that point was abandoned. The head
quarters of twenty-two train crews will
also removed from Raton to this city IN
the near future. and with the shop forces
will increase our railroad population fully
I 900. Mr.. Tay Ior's jurisdiction viii ex-
tend from Dodge City 20 La Junta. La
Junta to Denver. and from La Junta to
Albuquerque.
There is also prospect Of a new ar
rangement Of the divisions which Will
place Trainmssfer Dean IN charge of j
division to be called the western division.
extending from Dodge City to Cano
City, with headquarters at La Junfa-
Superintendent Parker will go TO Den
yer, the track between that city and Pue-
bio being Great ed into a distinct division
by Itseif.-I4a .Junta Tribune.