Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-09-11
Railroad Topics


ranged a new schedule for the limited
which materially reduces the running
time between Chicago and Los An
geles. This new schedule went into
effect Monday.
George Durand is in charge of the
local railway blacksmith shop during
the temporary vacancy resulting from
the promotion of George Fraser to the
foremanship of the department in To-
peka.
The roadbed Of the st. Louis, Kan
sas City & Colorado line is completed
to Versailles, III miles from st. Louis,
and trains are running to the Gascon-
ade. The whole line to Kansas City
will be completed by September / next
year.
1t is understood that the present sys-
TEN Of using time cards in the shops
may be discontinued. Instead of the
length of time which a job demands
being placed on the card it will be en-
tered in a book kept at the office of
each foreman.
In the northwest the railroads are
experiencing a shortage of cars which
may hamper them considerably in
their future handling of traffic, that of
stock in particular. The cattle move
ment which already has commenced is
largely responsible for this.
The Choctaw Railroad company has
commenced the survey of a line from
Rush, Okla, to Fair View, an impor-
tant connection in western Oklahoma.
charter, and it is reported hat the
construction will commence soon.
During the fruit shipping season
just closed the Illinois Central handled
the following business into Chicago
from the southern states-1,192 car
loads of w~atermelons against 1,029 last
year; 1852 car loads of cantaloupes,
against rs last year, and 16S car loads
of p%ineapples against 80 last year..
George Fraser, the new foreman of
arrived in time to his duties
Monday morning. Judging from the
comments concerning him about the
shops he has all the men for his
friends to start with, and his past
record gives reason to believe that he
will lose none of them.
The action of the Travellers Protec-
tive association convention al Port
land, Ore, in indorsing the decided
stand taken by the chairman of it's
railway committee against ticket
scalpers is being discussed by the
passenger agents of the country. The
alliance of the Travellers Protective
association with the railroads is re-
garded as making a strong combina-
ton against the scalpers.
The Topeka Journal says: Nearly
all the through trains on the Santa Fe
have been reported late wlunln the last
few days. The rains which have fallen
over this part of the system have soak
ed in so thoroughly that they have
rendered the track in a soft condition.
Engineers have been instructed explic-
lily not to exceed under any circum-
otuhNOo tht oNhtuuiC as III uO"h III
the time card. This applies principally
to the operation of trains when they
are behind time and is a preventive
against possible accident which might
occur from running over "slow" track
at a high speed.
The Kingmar Miner says: The pre-
liminary survey of the Congress &
Franconia railroad has been made and
now the work of cross sectioning is in
progress. The road will run across the
sink of Date creek, striking the Sandy
somewhere near its confluence with
the Santa Maria, thence through the
break in the Wallapai mountains along
Bill Williams Fork. Some grading has
already been done at Congress, pre-
sumably to hold the right of way.
There is now no doubt that the road
will be built and that within a year.