Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-09-10
Railroad Topics

The Santa Fe Railroad company will
carry the college exhibit to the terri
torial fair free this year.
Backshop Foreman Farquaharson
and Master Mechanics Clerk White.
both of Ration, spent Monday in Las
Vegas, and then came on to Albuquer-
que.
Col. r. E. Twitchell, assistant attor-
ney for the Santa Fe railway system
for New Mexico, was in Santa Fe on
business before the territorial board of
equalization.
Alfred Lowell, lately appointed as
sistant superintendent of the Santa Fe
motive power, has arrived at Topeka,
and taken charge of the duties of his
new position.
Thomas j. Helm, general agent of
the Denver & Rio Grande railway, with
headquarters at Santa Fe, is in the
city today, and will extend his trip
further south.
An outfit is at work a mile and a
half south of Ration throwing up
grades for two side tracks, each 3.40O
feet long. These new sidings are to be
used for the storage of cars.
Conductor A. l.. Forkner has had all
his teeth extracted and he will eat and
speak rather awkwardly till he be-
comes accustomed to the false set that
a Las Vegas dentist has fitted to his
mouth.
jeff Roberts. for thirteen years fire.
man and engineer on the Santa Fe
with headquarters at San Marcial, has
taken charge of John Bowman's en-
CINE on the Magdalena branch for
thirty days.
A. N. Brown, general passenger
agent of the Ell Paso-Rock Island
route, with headquarters at FL Paso,
that the lodge at Cloud
croft will be closed for the season on
September 10.
Ben Sulier, formerly of Las Vegas,
was in Santa Rosa the other evening.
Ben has been running an engine on
the Dawson branch and was on his
way to Alamogordo to take a freight
run on the Ell Paso-Rock Island.
The bridges and buildings depart
ment of the Santa Fe has just COM
pleted three cooling tanks for the Las
Vegas hot springs bath house. They
are each 15xSx3 feet. Let some school
boy or girl tell how many gallons each
will hold.
Officials are pleased with the show
ing made by the Prairie type freight To-
comotives. 1t is said that 113 recently
pulled a train of ~forty-eight cars be-
tween Newton and Emporia in three
hours, besides sustaining a delay of
twenty-five minutes.
Locomotive 81 of the Canadian
Northern road, which has lately been
~overhauled in Topeka shops, prepare
tory to being sent north, is the last
of that type to be SDi from the Santa
Fe to that company. Ii is a small ten
wheel Baldwin and was formerly the
63S.
C. d. Klumpf will again pull the
throttle of an engine on the Santa Fe
Pacific, and is here ready for work.
He and family have been in Oklahoma,
residing on the farm which Mr.. Klumpf
won in Uncle Sans lottery for farms
a couple of years ago. Mrs. Klumpf
and children will reside in Oklahoma
for a few months yet before joining
Mr.. Klumpf here.
Santa Fe headquarters in San Ber-
nardino is advised of a RECORD break
ing run made through the San Joaquin
valley, where a special train in the
service of a San Francisco newspaper
covered the distance between Fresno
and Stockton, 1873 miles, in 1875 min
utes. The run from Fresno to Point
Richmond, POI miles, was made in 224
minutes. The train consisted of two
cars and al engine.
Rock Island Strikes Water.