The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-12-04
THE RATTLE OF THE RAIL,

The Southern Railway has decided I"
add 1900 box cars to Its equipment
The Mobile and ohio Railroad company
Is rCteiy INK 300 freight cars oroeFeu I"l NS
miscellaneous traN'c.
The Oregon Short Line Is changing some
of It's simple engines to compounds Tor eA
perimentGI purposes.
a large tugboat for the Southern FpGGiac
which viii he used IN the mississippi rlN2r
liz being built In New Orleans
During the year ending on June 30 1901,
the New York Central and Hudson River
hauled 14742,7lI tons OF coal
The report that President Gould intended
to consolidate the Colorado lines OF MS
81 stem has been denied IN New YORK
The PENNSYLVANIA will run special eIcur;
sion trains from New York to Mexico and
California through Texas in February
The Louisville and Nashville has secured
the necessary right OF way In pensacola 10
build additional tracks 10 Its wharf prop
orty.
/ Baldwin compound Just built for the
/ Chlcago. Milwaukee and ST. Paul has been
loaned to the Erie for experimental pur'
poses,
The Southern Railways good roads train
is arousiug great interest In the various
| towns In the South In which 1t has given
! demonstrations,
Passenger train service on the Lake su.
pcrlor and lshpeming between MARQUEE e
I aud lshpeminE, Mlchu has been dlsconuh'
ued during the winter season.
A. :. Rankin, for many years chief clerk
I IN the office Of General superintendent g.
Il. Ressguc has been made general tram
Inspector for the Santa Fe system
The Nashville, Chattanooga and st. Louis
! RAILWAY company has decided TO build an
inclined railroad at Hickman. Ky, with u
view Of ferrying Its freight cars across the
| Mississippi
The Edison Electric Illuminating company
has secured the control Of the savannah,
Thuuderbolt and Isle OF Hope railway In
the suburbs OF Savannah and will operate
II after January l.
railroad nearly completed between those
two towns In Virginia, will use the ira, is
of the Richmond Passenger and Power com
pany in Richmond.
The Burlington and Missouri River uses
old locomotive boiler tubes for fence posts
The rucs are cut 10 length, holcs are cui
for wire, n coating of tar applied, and con
crete bases attached.
The Lehlgh valley has given notice that
after November 10 that company Will re
fuse TO accept for movement over Its lines
cars con structed with iron pipe as sllls and
castings for end sills.
Til, results of the annual inspection Of
the Illinois Central system were prizes
given to Superintendents ii. ID, Wallace RnC
Patrick Calvin for keeping their sections
of the railway in the best condition.
It is reported that Assistant Genera
Manager Ngcmackers OF the Europea
Sleeping Car company is in the UnitoC
States for the purpose OF arranging for the
building Of sleeping cars FOR the Trans 81
berian railway.
Delegates from every class OF railroad
! men In New York will meet at Albany Q,
December is for the purpose OF designatln,
, for appointment by the governor of one O
their number for place on the State raj,
road commission,
President Gowen of the Choctaw, Okla
homa and Gulf says that the road is no
: for sple thereby Gisposing Of the runor
! that the road WAS to be sold 10 the Mis-
souri, Pacific the Atchison, Topeku an,
Santa Fe or the Illinois Central.
The report OF the employees relief fun,
Of the Pennsylvania railroad lines east a
5 Plttsburg and Erie, for the month OF DC
tober shows that the payments OF benefit
70 amounted 10 SIS. 297 .9S. OF which S3i 90
a We're for deaths and SI7,20T0S on accom-
= OF dlsAhlemenL hy sickness and nnrldnnt