The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-14
RAIL NOTES AND NEWS
IMPROVED sANDHoUsE FOR THE
 L. & N. ROAD.
New Schedule cn Between Union Springs and Fort Davis on the Union Springs and
 Northern.

If the South were to be searched 1t would be difficult to find a railroad cen ter with more up-to-date railroad shops than Montgomery has in the Western, Louisville and Nashville and Plant Sys- tenn. The Mobile and Ohio and Sea board Air Line have their shops at rus caloosa and Americus respectively, only light repair work being done in the yaros of the two roads here.
 Over at the South and North shops or the Louisville and Nashville in the North EEd, General Foreman Briggs IS having the finishing touches put on the new sand house, one of the most complete things of the kind in the South.
 Yesterday MT. Briggs showed an Ad- vertiser man the blue prints of the ar engagements and explained its workings Near the tipple at the top of the big coal chute is where the sand Is dumped from the cars. There are two immense iron doors at the top. of the drying house and by mechanical devices the sand is lct down by degrees through big hoppers until it reaches the two big stoves at the bottom. Then iron pipes leading from the stove room take the sand-now thoroughly dried-to two tank reservoirs, one connected with the dry house and the others few yards away across the tracks From the dry house the sand Is forced through these pipes by air pressure, the air being secured from the engine that Is being sanded. The tanks are on towers. 90 feet rom the ground to the top of the tank Pipes leading from m the tSnk the df1p ensine. , which is on tracks just beneath. The ereae tso improvement in this method over tns old one of sanding" an engine ny n naasu ono but the great saving in time Will, II IS said, more than pay for itsel1. ..n
 its saving time that we are a1ter, said MT. Briggs, and ahytnlns .a slH :. cuts out time is worth big money here.
 Possibly one of the greatest time-sav- ing devices at the ships is an electric motor that will be put in the DE turn table. Every twenty,tour hours end lo ars sent out, making really eighty engines to be handled. Each engine has 10 pc turned on the big table and several hours are required for the negro laborers 10 turn some of the monsters now getting so common on the Mobile and Montgomery and South and North divisions or the Louisville and Nashville.
 When the electric motor is put Tn the heaviest engine can be turned In a very few seconds and the old method or turH- ing the table by hand will he an antIuua- ted memory of first principle railroau- | ing An electric motor is already peii.G | used in the Nashville and Birmingham | shops and a gasoline motor VIII be used | in Master Mechanic Minto's Mobile snops' An improved cinder pit, l5O rect ionB, has taken the place of the old Sne ,iss at sms South and North shops and MT. Briggs | says that when trains do not get out on | time after this the old cry or delay yds n
 the engine at the shops cannot pc uSuu '. | From now on the shops will be right up | with the work. After the clnders are l dumped from the ashpans of the engine | they are shoveled into waiting cars ana | carried up or down the road to De useo l as ballast.
 Master Mechanic Enwright yesterday | morning made a test of one or the ' neM
 locomotives just received by the fiah
 If was engine 53O and was sent out on
 an extra freight train with l'Ooo tons | Master Mechanic Enwright, SuperintMen- M tive Power Simon, going out on 1t.
 This is one of four engines recelvzed9 z9
 from the Baldwin people-Nos; ooS Do, 532 and 533 They are mammoth i1,,, a1sns
 weighing i2o tons. light-that Is %lthou!
 coal or water-with cylinders 2lx2S an'
 1-2 foot driving wheels
 Tho following telegram from Evans
 vile, Ind to yesterdays Louisvliie toras Hon
 ier-Journal. will be read "lth il'ei e0
 by local railroad people: .. .h
 '"It is semi officially announced that ti
 Evansville and Terre Haute Kallroao e ui
 rectors Thursday will elect J. G; Metcalie
 former General Manager of the L9Hls ms
 vile and Nashville and later of the Den
 yer and Rio Grande Railway: manage
 of the system and w. s; Martin 1i'iinie ioITe1
 Sunerintendent of the st. Louis DlVlslo
 of inc Louisville and Nashville, as su
 perintendent It is also added A. C. Hone
 Superintendent of the Evansville an
 Terre Haute road. will go to Louisville a
 Assistant Superintendent of Motive Powe of the Louisville and Nashville
 Beginning this morning the unloi springs and Northern. Railway will pu , into effect between Union springs an
 Fort Davis the following schedule: o.- No 1. daily, leave Union Springs SO a. m, arrive Ft. Davis, s;$O %,s.is d m, 1o m arrives at Union Springs 10:4O a. nl
 No daily rt leaYes 6avis Hn9n So sPrinsS p m ''' , No 4 daily. leaves Fort Davis, GAO T
 arrives Union springiF Fort 5aq pPvs a. @ wit r cootnard t%,a Air line train No. 72 for Sa
 vannah and all points Worth and ,.is East Ttt, l seaboard Air Line train No. Il for Mon1 l gomery and all points West and South | west. =, a 2
 carry Parlor Buffet cars in both direc
 tions.
 . N~o-, he WotermauGS