Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1902-08-14
Affairs of the Railroads.


is constructed to junction with the
Cumberland Valley Railroad before
it shall stop its freight traffic with the
Western Maryland at Cherry Run.
Notice has been served by the B. & o.
upon the W. NJ. that the agreement
between the two roads will end within
thirty days. The B. & o. on Monday
started big force of men to charging
the yards at Martinsburg and improv-
Ing the present connection with the
Cumberland Valley road. Track
room for 1000 cars will be provided,
and the exchange Of freight will be
conducted there until the new line is
built to the G. V. near Bedington.
The connections at Martinsburg are
to be finished by September lst. 1t.
is said that litigation between the W.
NJ. and the B. & 0. may follow as
result of the breaking of the traffic
agreement. A Western Maryland Of
fetal says that the B. & 0. cannot con-
troll more than 25 per cent of the bus
mess now turned over to the W. NJ.
at Cherry Run, as most of it is billed
by the latter road from its original
point.
The transfer of a large additional
freight business from the B. & 0. to
the Cumberland Valley Railroad at
Martinsburg will revolutionize the
methods of the latter road. TheC G. V.
is one of the most excellently managed
railroads in the country. 1t has just
so much passenger business and just
so much freight traffic, and the capable
officials and employees know how to
handle it with scientific accuracy.
1t isn't often that cog slips in Its
well managed machinery, for each
days business is known beforehand
and provided for. With such great
addition to its freight business as is
now proposed, matters will be very
different, and how to handle it on a
single track line will be problem
that will cause grey hairs to accumu-
late pretty fast. The sailing on the
G. V. will not be as smooth as it has
been.
Work on the Baltimore and Ohio
low grade freight line from Cherry
Run to Wilson's is now well under
way. The working force has been
largely increased during the past sew
eral weeks and hundreds OF laborers
are at work with pick and shovel con-
structing the line. All Of the cuts
along the line have been opened up.
The deepest one will be seventy feet
and the longest will be one near
North Mountain, which will be one
mile in length and will have an aver
age depth of ten feet all the way.
One of the heaviest pieces Of stone
work in the construction of that end
OF the cutoff will be a stone arch
bridge forty feet high over Back Greek.
Sidings have been constructed at
Boards and Black Rock, near Cherry
Run, so as to enable the contractors
to get in their steam shovels and 9TH
er heavy machinery to be used in con-
structing the road. The civil engln-
eering corps at work on the cutoff in
this county and surveying for the pro-
posed cutoff at Paw Paw, which will
take a straight course instead Of fol-
lowing the many bends Of the river,
have been doubled the past week or
two. There are now forty men at
work on the corps. The route for the
proposed short line at Paw Paw cross
es the Potomac twice.-NartinS6Erg
World
The REGISTER was informed yes
terday that the Cumberland Valley
Railroad will at once double-track its
line between Martinsburg and Cham
bersburg in order to accommodate the
large addition to its freight business
to be delivered to it by the B. & O.
at Martinsburg. An enormous force
of laborers has been set to work this
week between Martinsburg and the
Potomac river, and the completion Of
the double-track will be FASTENED as
fast as possible.
Major Hunter, right-ot-way agent
for the B. & 0. Railroad, has settled
for practically all the land needed by
the new line as far as the Cumberland
Valley Railroad. He is now busy at
work looking up titles and preparing
to purchase the right Of way from the
G. V. road to the Jefferson county
line. When this work has been fin
ished he will transfer his operations
to this county.
The Norfolk & Western Railway
has placed orders for $4,000 tons of
steel rails to be delivered next year.
They will be S5-pound rails. and will
be used to replace 56-pound rails on
the Shenandoah Valley division and
for double-tracking part of the line
between Kenova and Columbus.
Oliver T. Kemp, who has been in
the service of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad for As years, and who has
been superintendent of bridges for
81 years, has voluntarily retired from
railroad work. Mr.. Kemp is resi-
dent of Harper's Ferry.
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