The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-24
Freight Lying Side Tracks for
Thirty Miles Out to BE Hauled
Into the Yards To-Day.
LINE FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN
CANADA TO HAVE ANOTHER TRANS
CONTINENTAL RAILWAY.
1t Will BE Constructed by the Grand
Trunk and Will Cost About One
Hundred Million Dollars.

PITTSBURG, Nov. 23.-After twenty-four
hours of the most strenuous activity on the
part of the greatly augmented forces of men
and locomotives, the Pennsylvania Rail-
road system has made comparative clean
ing up of it's congested terminals. The car
movement breaks all records for a similar
time. In five hours ninety-five trains were
started for Altoona by the Pennsylvania,
20 per cent. heavier than the record.
1t is estimated that during the twenty
four hours ending at o'clock Monday
morning 929 trains, consisting of 46, ,225 cars,
were moved in and out of Pittsburg as fol-
lows: Pennsylvania Railroad 2s4 trains, A.
700 cars; Fort Wayne, $50 trains 5000 cars;
Panhandle. 245 trains, 12,025 cars; Baltimore
e. Ohio, go trains. $500 cars; Pittsburg &
Lake Erie, 129 trains, 5000 cars. The esti-
mated tonnage is $50 tons.
Tonight the Pennsylvania Railroad yards
at Twenty-eighth street and Pitcairn are
freer from Instructions than at any time
within five months, but the receipts Of cars
destined for Pittsburg shippers will fill
them up before tomorrow is passed The
cars will be moved in from the outlying
sidetracks, which, for thirty miles along
every approach to the city, have been stag
mated with cars laden with all manner of
crude products.
The work accomplished in the yards of
the Allegheny Valley and West Penn di-
visions of the Pennsylvania and on the
Pittsburg & Akron division of the Balti-
more & Ohio was equally great.
On the Monongahela division of the Penn
sylvania the one section that was almost
aralu hxro
number of cars were moved. These cars
were chiefly laden with coke and coal des-
tined for points west of Pittsburg They
were hauled out in trains OF from sixty-five
TO eighty cars each toward their destina-
tions, and at the same time empty cars
were hauled up to the mines and coke ovens
for loading. The almost entire tie-up of
the blast furnaces and steel mills of She
mango and Mahoning valleys caused traffic
managers to give preference, as far as pos
sible to the movement of the classes of
freight upon which a continuance of the
operation of the industrial plants depends
In the yards of the Pittsburg & Lake
Erie and the Baltimore & Ohio good work
was accomplished. AS these roads were
not in bad shape as the Pennsylvania
system they had less to do and their ter
minals are comparatively close to normal
conditions tonight.
The number of accidents to trainmen
| to-day was high. This is attributed to
the fact that a large number of new men
were engaged to fill out shunting crews
| in the yards. Before s o'clock eight men
were reported to have been taken to the
| West Penn Hospital to be treated for in
| juries received during the day, varying
! from slight to serious.
| The congestion of freight here was the
worst ever known. The Pennsylvania Rail.
road produce yards here supply an illustra-
| ton of the extent to which the congestion
/ had grown. These yards have a capacity
! OF 250 cars. The railroad company keeps
/ the yards full, consignees are constantly
! unloading, and the empty cars are removed
! as fast as they are emptied Yet all the
/ time more than 300 cars of fruits and yege.
tables were lying on sdetracks in Ale.
gheny waiting an opportunity to be moved
| across the river to the produce yards Al
i the cold-storage houses are full and al
/ produce must be sold to save loss through
decay, but until the cars reached the prod
! uce yards no sale could be made
The blockade cost the PENNSYLVANIA Rail
road thousands of dollars each day Ship
perS and consignees were contemplating
the filing of claims for more than $500 oO
! damages locomotive engineers were earn
! ing 500 TO s275 a month and other railroad
trainmen were making overtime.
The West Penn Railroad. branch of tn,
| Pennsylvania, has a freight transfer sta
tion at Ross eight miles from Allegheny
with a capacity of 1,500 cars. West Penn
! employe, in speaking yesterday of the con
gestion at that point, said: II can go int,
the transfer office and show you the wa,
bill of that arrived there Aug O. L
! contains freight for local points on tn,
West Penn. That car is on No. | track a
! Ross. and will stay there for seven NOR,
| weeks before it can be reached in its regu
lar turn.
| II Is not difficult to comprehend the mag
| nitude of the freight congestion when il ii
| stated that in one case il required thre,
! days for train to so twenty miles nor q
| realize the cost to the railroad compan,
when one remembers that the crew of th,
train remain at their posts all that time
snatching few hours sleep now and ther
in the engine or the caboose.