Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-02-05
Railroad Topics

making this spring additional improve
ments in the shops at Tucson, Arizona.
There are now 423 men on the pay roll,
which number, ii is said, will be in
creased in the spring. as there is a
large amount of work on hand, and
heavy shipments of stock expected.
Arthur Vaude Greyn, who has been
employed at Las Vegas as chief clerk
for Division Foreman r. d. Gibbons,
will resign his position soon and will
return to Chicago, to accept a position
in the Office there. Frank Duchon,
late of Ration, will take Mr.. Greyn's
position.
According to a Denver paper, S. B.
Dick. vice president of the Colorado
& Northwestern, Meadville, Pa, has
raised $14 600, 900 to build an extension
of this road from Boulder, Colo. to
Salt Lake City, Utah. $50 miles. pass
in through Steamboat Springs and
Middle PARK.
The largest and most powerful Shay
engine ever built will be shipped by
the Lima Locomotive and Machine
Works this month to the Ell Paso-
Rock Island route, for use on the Ala
mogordo & Sacramento Mountain rail-
way. The engine will weigh 10 tons
and will be numbered los.
In a circular issued by General Man
ager Russell Harding, of the Missouri
Pacific company, ID. Hardy is appoint
ed genera superintendent of that o a
and its leased and operated lines in
Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Colo
RADIO, with headquarters at st. Louis,
vice H. u. Clark. The appointment is
effective February Is.
Only four passengers were killed on
the nearly 1900 miles of railway in the
state of Mississippi, during 1901, as
shown by the report Of the railroad
commission. In 1900 only n passen-
ger was killed. There were fifty-one
employees killed last year, of whom
thirty-eight were trainmen, eight shop
men, two s%witchmen, n ~stationman
and six other employees.
A correspondent writing to The
White Oaks Eagle from Jicarilla, says:
Thomas Wilson returned from the Gal
linas mountains and reports the u
try free of snow. The contract is let
by the Santa Fe Central for $4,000
cross ties; also for bridge timbers-to
be hewed instead of sawed. The con
tractor expects to gather the ties in
the Gallinas mountains. This is good
for the railroad but will leave the camp
short of mining timbers. Mr.. Wilson,
so we are told, is offered a sub-con-
tract to make timbers in Manzano
mountains.
d. E. Cain, whose promotion to the
newly created position of assistant
general manager of the Santa Fe oc-
Cured the first of the month, began
his connection with the Santa Fe as a
time keeper in the Topeka shops years
ago. By fidelity to his duty he rose to
the position of chief clerk to John
Player, then superintendent of machin
cry, and was taken from the mechanic
al department by H. U. Nudge, gener
al manager. Expression of gratifica
ton has beer frequent lately at the de
serving recognition of Mr.. Gains ser
vices.
AS soon as the necessary change
can be made there will be three res
ervoirs for the storage of Pintsch ga:
on each of the thirty-one chair cars
instead of two as has been the case
heretofore. Three coaches were re
Gently given an overhauling whereof!
~ecetylene lighting apparatus was re
moved and this week the add!tiona
improvements are to be made. Thu
reason for the change is simply be
cause Pintsch gas may be used ex
clusively instead of only partially, al
heretofore. The reason for this ha'
been that two tanks held only enough
of the fluid to light the cars only a por
: ton of the way to Albuquerque ant
[ back to Kansas City. One of the gen
Grating plants of the company is 10
Gated at Armstrong, near Kansas City
= and from there the gas is conducted
: through pipes to the union depot
!. where, as often as desired, the cars re
ceive a fresh supply. After the guam
tity which two reservoirs supplied hal
been exhausted, while the cars wer
out on the road, it became necessar
, to light the cars with candles. TIL
= changes on nineteen of them will b
made at Argentine, the supplies bein
|, furnished at Topeka shops, and the re
mainder will be given additional tank
at the Pullman works in Chicago.