Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-22
FINISHING BIG WORK
improvements to Central Road
bed Planned for This Season
About Completed.
Line in Good Condition to Com.
bat Heavy Shows During the
Coming Winter.
Northwestern to Have a New
Fast Train, to Run From
Ocean to Ocean.

II good weather continues, as the
present prospects indicate that it will,
Nov. i15 will find the Iowa Central rail-
road fixed in the best col: iition for the
onslaught of the storms of winter that
it has ever been in its history. By the
18th proX. it is estimated that all of the
$1,000 worth of improvement in track
age and roadbed will have been COM
pleted, that is, all that has been laid out
for completion this season. The condt-
tons for its completion have been of the
1nost favorable kind, and, in fact, near
~ everything Is under completion now.
About the only work that is dragging is
that on Lacey hill, twenty -seven-foot
cut, one mile in length, now in progress.
The work of cutting down the Dillon hill
is also not quite finished, but will be
some time between the LIST and 10th of
November. This cut is 2,300 feet long
and six feet in depth. With the New
burg hill all completed, and all ready for
tallasting, which will be begun on
Wednesday, this gives the Central a
roadbed with no grades whatever be-
tween Marshalltown and Grinnell. There
Is still, however, one bad grade between
here and Oskaloosa, and that is the rul-
ing one on the forth division, known as
"Schoolhouse. HILL" six miles and a
fraction In length and running all the
way from the G. & NJ. Junction, just out
/! of Grinnell, to Searsboro. The grade Is
a steady one. running north. and is full
of curves. That work won't be touched
at all until next season, and to obviate
the difficulty the building of a track
around the hill, for use until it is cut
down, is contemplated. Ii such is done
the building of between six and eight
miles OF track will be necessary. An
other matter that has been looked after
carefully by the road department is the
widening of all cuts. which always cause
trouble during the winter months by
filing with snow and blockading trains.
Besides the widening of the cuts all have
been ditched for drainage. so that the
spring rains and melting SHOWS will not
cause soft track.
The small car outfit of Contractor
George NJ. kepner, of Fort Dodge, which
has been at work on small cut at
Moore, station between Searsboro and
New Sharon, was moved today to Cor
with, prior to being sent to Fort Dodge.
No more work is to be opened up this
year, because of the lateness of the sea-
son. The work with team outfits, in fill
ing in bridges. will be continued. how
ever, until frost prevents further exca-
walton. The work of bridge filing is be-
ing done almost exclusively on the south
and eastern divisions.
1t appears as IL the Chicago & North
western will, before long, put OH a new
fast train west. to shorten the time be-
tween Chicago to San Francisco, in con-
nection with its traffic arrangement
with the Union Pacific, at Council
Bluffs The New York Centrala and Lake
Shore roads are preparing to take adj
vantage OF the vast improvements that
have been made in the physical condt-
tion of both the western roads, and the
Northwestern officials at Chicago were
notified yesterday, by the eastern mana-
gers, that new ocean to ocean train,
giving additional limited train across the
continent, would be placed into service
or Nov. 8. The details of the new train
between New York and Chicago have
not yet been arranged, and as conse-
auence nothing can be done by the
Northwestern and Union Pacific until
the matters in the east are settled def
nitely. The running time Of the new
train will be fifty miles an hour.
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