Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-07-25
RAILROAD ACTIVITY
In This seetion-PenDsyIvR Of
RciaIs Here Inspection Toul
other Matters of Importance.

In This seetion-Penpsyiya Of
RcisIs Here ON Inspection Tour
other Matters of Importance.
These are busy and progressive times
with the various railroads in and about
Wheeling. Scarcely day passes i'll
which we do not find ourselves called
upon to chronicle announcements OF
preparations on the part Of the mana
gers of this or that road to increase
the capacity of their road for handling
traffic, especially freight traffic.
The smaller roads are being absorbed
by the greater corporations, thus redue-
ing the salary charges; terminal facili-
ties are being enlarged and otherwise
improved; the local depots are re-
modelled, modernized and their capa-
city increased.
The Wheeling and Lake Erie Is i'm
proving its roadbed and putting in new
steel rails along large portion of its
line, as a result. possibly of its absorb
tion by the great Wabash-Gould sys-
TEN.
The Cleveland. Lorain and Wheeling,
road has been taken into the body cor
porate of the masterfully managed
Baltimore and Ohio, and so great has
been the increase of traffic that IL has
been deemed advisable to triple its
carrying power by doubling the entire
track of the line. This is no small or
ordinary undertaking when one con-
siders the character of the country
through which that road runs. There
are long tunnels to be widened, great
cuttings to be increased scores or
bridges to be reconstructed, and hun
dred miles of Fill" to be doubled.
Only yesterday, a number OF the OF
fcials of the great Pennsylvania, or
Panhandle system, arrived in Wheel
ing on a special train, coming from
Pittsburg over the Pam Handle, and
made a thorough inspection of their
companys vast interests here, with a
view of determining what improve
ments were advisable and possible In
its tracks, depots, round houses and
all other facilities for handling its
enormous and still rapidly increasing
business in Wheeling and her subur-
ban neighborS
On two improvements all were
agreed, namely, double tracking the
road between and in Wheeling and
Benwood and north at least as far as
Wheeling Junction. This latter move
has evidently been in the minds of the
management of the road for some time
past, as they have been steadily in
creasing the fill along the river in
North Wheeling and beyond. Work
has already begun on this portion OF
the improvement and will be rapidly
pushed to completion
In the distinguished party that Wis
tied the city yesterday were: Chief
Engineer Thomas Robb. General Sup
erintendent Ralph Peters, Superin-
tendent w. C. Cushing. Superintend-
ent of Motive Power r. w. Demer,
Consulting Engineer Johnson, Train
Master Mccarthy and others. The To-
cal officials were on hand and were
frequently called upon for suggestions.
Many minor improvements will
doubtless result from this visit as the
inspection was very complete of all the
company's holdings in this city. 1t is
evidently their intention to be fully
prepared for the increasing demands
OF the great manufacturing plants OF
this part of the Ohio valley.
The subway at Boggs' run crossing
will be a great improvement in many
ways 1t does away with very dan
gerous grade crossing. gives the rail-