The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-28

completed early this wear. although The
| WORK was commenced the year previous
/ IN the way of equipment the same en-
| terprise is shown by the Rio Grande
passenger cars have been overhauled and
VesIlouled. while fittings and inside i'm
| proyeInents, including air brakes and
otner safety appliances. have been added.
! About fifty cars have been turned into
] modeIn coaches, retouched with the
STANDARD colors and vanished Whole
l trains. from baggage car to day coach.
have been treated
An immense amount of improved equip
ment mas been added to bring the road
up 70 the highest standard of efficiency:
new OoX cars have been added, forty new
engines nave been built ard forty more
1 nave received a general overhauling
New machinery is also one of the items
OF expense About $1,000 worth of ma
ehlnery has been added. including a dr1v-
/ ing wheel lathe. air compressOrs. air
COMPRISING tools and turret lathe.
An average OF 900 men has been en-
! ployed in the shops. and between $4,000
IN wages. exclusive of the salaries TO en-
glneers, firemen and conductors.
New Shops Next Year.
great many improvements are under
consideration by the Rio Grande for the
coming year. Among the most inlporta,lf
OF tnese are the new machine shops
! Whlch are 10 be commenced in a few
weeks. These viii be double the capacity
Of the present shops and will be SIpnlied
WITH all the most improved machinery.
AT SiO0o0o- The machinery ard tools viii
cost about $4,000 more The track from
salt Lake to Ogden will be ballasted and
the grading VIII be reduced TO $500 of 1
per cent. This will require the handling
OF 30o.t00 yards of material with a sfear3
shoveI. All sidetracks will probably be
heightened to accommodate longer trans
and more of them. The uniform length
VIII be 1900 feet, or three-fourths of a
mile; 1t is also expected that better
ments VIII be made to the lines east of
Provo and between Cotton and Provo 5v
reducing grades and Strengthening the
Oregon Short Line.
The year has been full of incident for
the oregon Short Line The shops at P.1-
cateilo. the bennington cutoff Nthe
Sehange IN its charter, and the recent al
figures as Hartman interest. are
among the more conspicuous events Of
tne year IN the history of the road. Two
new trains. Nos. II and r. have also been
added. This last change gives the road
thirty passenger trains, as follows:
we've between this city and Ogden, !
rs re branch two fer Terminus. two north
Oh Ogcen. four through passengers to the !
coast. two Cache valley trains
Flowing Through a Mountain.
Inc CUTOFF; which is us-mle !
stretch from this city TO bennington hin
mas 6een completed to Terminus. The
new lne goes within a mile of Tooele /
and the first train over the new line was I
the occasion of big demonstra ton of ]
1ooele citizens. Just now the work IS 1
directed TO Stockton bar. At this point 4
the company is practically blowing down /
a mountain. Nearly 100000 Yards of 1
earth will have to be removed at that |
point. Three great steam shoveIs are
used on this colossal work and about 40 /
men are employed. Figures and descrip- !
ton convey poor idea of the magnitude
OF the undertaking. 1t is expected thai
TINS mountain will be reduced by the lat
ter part OF February Another big un-
dertaking the past year has been the
new shops at Pocatello
Cranes That Lift Engines.
Splendid equipment is one of the fea-
lures of this plant. Ali the machinery
IS driven by electricity, and each tool
S. operated independently of the rest
of the machinery One of the i'm
posing features of Gthe plant is a bat
terry of cranes, one of which is capable
II swinging q huge locomotive clear of
he floor. The lifting capacity of this
giant is 100 tons The shops. like those Of
he Union Pacific just completed at
omaha, have attracted general attention
throughout the country, as the plant is
equipped with the latest and