Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-06
RAILROAD NOTES.
New Southern Freight Schedule
is Unsatisfactory to Shippers.
Comparative Statement of Railway Carr
ings-Fine New Southern Trains Salts
factory Figures of scaboard Air Line
system Atlantic Coast Line Extension
Southern Railway Changes.

Speaking of the new official freight
classification issued by the Southern
Classification Committee, j. M. Lang
ley. of the New York Merchants Asso-
citation. says:
ton of this new schedule and cannot
ma that 1t contains any material con-
cessions to shippers. Unfortunately
the members of the Southern Classif-
protests filed by the shippers some
time ago.
In making up this new schedule.
which The Southern committee are
now giving to the public, they have adj
hered to the radical changes made last
Winter. with the exception of a few
minor alterations. Owing TO the unsat-
i3factory condition of this whole mat
ter in the South, we had decided some
time ago TO take the entire subject be-
lore the Interstate Commerce Com
mission in an action to be brought
against some one of the roads in the
South using this higher and. therefore.
we claimed. discrlminative schedule
we laid the whole matter before our
counsel. who advised us that we had a
good cause of action. We delayed ac-
ton pending the making up OF this
new schedule. Now that the new
schedule is found not to have granted
concessions to shippers. we will pro-
coed along the lines originally laid
down.
SOUTHERN'S NEW COACHES.
1t is officially announced that In n
few days the through trains
over the Southern Railway from
Washington to Atlanta and New Or
leans will be made up entirely of new
cars. The passenger coaches will be of
the latest improved style, and palatial
in appointments and finish. New Pull
mans will also be used
NEW ~ & w. CARS.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
Company has decided to construct 400
more coal cars at the Roanoke Machine
Works. This will make nearly 1000
cars which have been ordered from
this place within year.
NEW c. & O. LOCOMOTIVES.
The Chesapeake and Ohio railway
has just placed orders for four new
passenger engines. The orders were
placed with the Baldwin Locomotive
Works of Philadelphia. and the Schc-
nectady Locomotive Works, of Sche-
nectady, n. Y. The latter works Sc
cured the contract for three eight
wheelers. similar to some OF the en-
gines now in use on the Chesapeake
and Ohio The drivers will be seventy
two inches in diameter and the cylln-
ders will be 20X26. The total weight of
about $4,000 pounds.
The Baldwin Company will build for
the Chesapeake and Ohio another of
the big wheelers, similar TO those
now in use for mountain climbing. The
cylinders will be 22x2S inches and the
drivers six feet in diameter. The en-
CINE alone is about 170.G00 pounds. and
in working order with the tender is
about 2S7 600
All of the engines will be delivered
soon after the first OF the year
a. C. LINE EXTENSION.
The Atlantic Coast Line extension
from Sumter to Camden. S. c., has
been completed and is now open for
business. The extension is thirty miles
in length and gives the Coast Line
short route To Camden and a CORE
spending advantage to the South Caro-
lima and Georgia extension.
1t is reported that the Elizabeth CITY
and Western Railroad Company is talk
ing preliminary steps towards the
building of its line, which is to extend
from Elizabeth City to a connection on
the Norfolk and Carolina railroad near
Suffolk Va