Daily Kennebec journal., 1900-11-24
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The sand train is hauling more than
100 loads Of sand daily from Sebago
lake where 1t is being loaded by the
steam shovel. to Portland. 1t is mixed
with the clay and used for filling in 70,
the new tracks and boiler house be-
You'd Union station on the Mountain
division. fi:i#.t,a .t
Clarence l.. Lombard. who for the
past two years has acted as night
operator 1or the Boston & Maine Rail-
road at the Saco eastern division sta
ton. has resigned to accept position
on the Grand Trunk Railroad. Samuel
| Titcomb or Saco. has been appointed
night operator at the eastern division
station to succeed Mr.. Lombard.
| The work of track laying on the
somerset a. Moosehead extension is
| well underway. The extension is now
laid to within three fourths of Il mile
Of the stream at Mainstream There is
! quite 1t hil To be made at the south
! end OF the abutments for the new
bridge and the distance has been
| treStied so that trains may be used to
| haul the dirt to make the fill. The
work has been pushed along quite
rapidly and there is the best of reason
for believing that if good weather pre-
walls. the road will be completed to
the site of the new depot in two weeks
| more.
\ coal car in Portland recently at
| tracted much attention. A casual OBJ
server might not observe anything
unusual about the car excepting that
| it was larger than the ordinary coal
| car, but a close inspection would re-
| veal the fact that the construction of
| the car was radically different from
| the ordinary run of cars. This par
ticular car is the property of the
baltimore * Ohio Railroad. 1t is about
30 feet in length. weighs 81 1d0 pounds.
/ has a carrying capacity of 50 000
pounds. and is constructed entirely Of
steel. The car is equipped with patent
couplers and has airbrake connections
1t is the latest thing out in the way Of
coal cars.
The fifth of the train indicators at
Union station. Portland has been thor
oughly repaired and improved: and
| hung in position. This is the Noun
tain division indicator and one would
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while within there have been many i'm
provements made in the mechanism
These five indicators. three for the
Maine Central and two for the Boston
X Maine. We're formerly in working
order about quarter of the time and
useless the other three-quarters
superintendent Sprague has spent
much time and thought on them. as a
result of which they are now in prac-
ucally perfect condition all of the time.
They formerly We're placed against the
wall OF the station where they wee
seldom seen. but now they are in plain
sight and are Il valuable aid to the
travelling public. Previously the
Mountain division indicator had 4 dial
and hands which were set showing the
time for the departure of trains. This
has been replaced by a blue board on
which is the information that the
board relates to the Mountain division
while the time of the departure of the
train may be plainly seen through a
square opening in this board one OF
the officials OF the road told an anus
ing incident concerning the dial for
nierly used on the indicator. He has
seen many men look at the dial, pull
out his watch and if the hands on the
dial pointed ten or fifteen minutes out
of the way he would suggest that the
clock was wrong. but if the hands OF
the dial showed two or three minutes
faster or slower than those of his
watch he would adjust his watch ac-
cordinGiy- This was an everyday oc-
currence. The indicators show the
names OF all the places at which the
train that leaves at certain time
must stop.