The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-03-22
RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS.

: Lincoln visitors, Tuesday.
!, c. L. Walker has been transferred tc
Alliance as foreman Of mechanical de
partment paint gang at that place.
Sup't Campbell was a visitor to the
) states metropolis. Tuesday, and looked
in upon the senatorial situation.
w. J. Purvis of Denver spent Sunday
and Monday with the family here. He
is in the Rio Grande employ and pleased
with his work.
The Colorado & Southern will soon
have in commission a new engine which
will weigh 100000 pounds; will have So
inch boilers, 22x2S-inch cylinders.
Ralph E. Hayward, for the past ten
years a clerk in the general auditing de-
partment of the Burlington, has been
promoted to the position of assistant
contracting agent for the freight depart
ment.
The Plattsmouth Burling On band
gave a concert in Alliance, last Saturday
evening. The Plattsmouth male quartet,
Miss Kit Agnew of Lincoln, s%oloist;
Miss Antonio Kessler, accompanist &C
companied the band in its special car,
and were features of the evenings pro-
gramme.
The Burlington has arranged to move
the freight depot at Oxford some distance
west from its present location, straighten
out and lengthen the present yard track
age and put in some additional side
tracks, to accommodate the increased
railroad business at that point Beaver
City Tribune.
The carpenters have completed the
work of identifying the depot and the
grounds. An iron railing surrounds a
small tract of ground just east of the
depot and which will eventually become
a small park, as soon as the weather will
permit of the planting of trees and the
sowing of grass seeds.-Wilsonville Re
view.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
railroad company is said to have pre-
vented what was regarded as a scheme
leading to h re-estab1ishmen of
branches of the engineers and fire mems
brotherhoods on the system, over which
the road scored a victory in the strike of
thirteen years ago. 1t leaked out yes
terday that eight employees belonging to
the brotherhood of locomotive engineers
had been found in the service of the
Burlington company. The officials, it is
reported, commanded the men either to
renounce allegiance to the organization
or leave the service. Six of the engine
ers, it is said, agreed to cancel their
membership in the brotherhood, but the
other two left the road. Several fire.
men, too, it is reported, were brought
before the officials to answer similar
charges. Only one, it is found, chung
to the brotherhood after the two condi-
tons were made known.-Chicago Rec
ord
Announcement has been made of the
fact that the Schenectady locomotive
works have secured the patent right to
build railroad engines of the so-called
prairie type. In this same connection
the Burlington management has given
an order for fifty engines at a cost of
$4,000. 1t will be news to every rail-
road ma outside of the ~Burlington's
Chicago Offices that the prairie type of
an engine, which is now being used by
a half dozen railroads, is the invention
of Frederick A. Delano, superintendent
of motive power for the Burlington. The
prairie type engine is simply a machine
with an exceedingly wide fre-box and an
extra length of boiler. Under the old
type the limit in width of the fre-box
was three feet and four inches, while
under the new limit it is six feet. The
patent for the type was issued in January
and as a result several manufacturers had
to settle for having infringed upon the
patent. Experiments made with the
engine discloses the fact that by its use
there is a saving of fuel amounting to
between ten and twenty per cent. Ow-
ing to this conservation of fuel and the
width of the fire. box it is also possible
to get greater speed results.
Number I69 is the latest corset crea
ton. 1t is an "F. c." and is called a