Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-04-25
Railroad Topics

Engineers Fenner and Parks are
resting up for a couple of days.
After a weeks illness, w. l.. Schud-
der, conductor. has resumed his run.
T~hirty-eight M~exicans. direct from
Mexico, passed up the road for Rocky
Ford. Colo, this morning.
On account of a badly mashed finger.
Sherman Scott. an apprentice of the
local shops. is taking a lay of.
Engine 473, which had been in the
shops at Ration for fifteen days, is
again in the passenger service.
Egine 06S went over to Santa Fe
to relieve 0177, which will go to the
Las Vegas shops for a washout and
slight repairs.
Engine 21S9 went through early the
other morning from the Santa Fe Pa
cific to Trinidad. where 1t will go in
the switch service.
Timothy O'Brien, formerly in the
railroad service, is now with the Con-
tinental Casualty company. He went
to Denver this morning.
The San Bernardino Sun announces
the arrival in San B~ernardino OF n. NJ.
Rice, the general storekeeper of the
Soool lAito ~ II bS opo1lt
his headquarters here several days.
Tandem compound engines S49 and
S44, new engines which have been
working on the Colorado division. have
been transferred to Las Vegas. to take
the places of the simple engines which
have been assigned to the G.. c. & s.. F.
OF the four firemen who recently
entered the service of the Santa Fe
ne ne Na-a. 1901 n DoI1A
j. H.. Dennam, G. w. Monks and j. F.
Baker. ,--e last is the only n who
proposes to remain. The others have
already resigned.
A. p. Hall, superintendent of the st.
Joseph Terminal, has been appointed
trainmaster of the Gulf, Colorado &
Santa Fe at Temple, Texas. Charles
l.. Mason. terminal superintendent of
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe at
Streator. H., has been appointed sue
cessor to Mr.. Hall.
Brakeman Frank Flommerfelt. who
has been at the Santa Fe hospital at
Las Vegas recuperating from injuries
sustained in the wreck at Sulzbacher
som time ago, is able to be up and
around. He has about recovered, with
the exception of his broken arm, which
he still carries in a sling.
w. T. Oliver. formerly located here
as the land commissioner for the
Santa Fe on the New Mexico and Rio
Grande divisions, came in yesterday
from the south to consult with j. e.
Hurley, general superintendent of the
western division. Mr.. Oliver was .
passenger for Topeka this morning.
Roadmaster Thomas Inman, of Cha
mute, Kan, who has resigned his posi-
tion on the Santa Fe to take effect
May /. when he will move to Colorado,
was surprised by a committee of Sec
ton foremen on his division last Sat
urday evening. Mr.. Inman was pre-
scented with a letter of regret, and as
he Will have no further use of a hanu-
car he was also presented with a f1ne
t~wo-seated carriage and harness.
Engine 9S9, one of the largest loco
motives in the world, turned out for
the Santa Fe by the Schenectady
works several months ago. is now
working out of a Bernardino, Cal.
According to reports some difficulty
has been experienced with it on ac-
count of spreading rails. the steel on
some of the ines there being lighter
than other places and not nearly
heavy enough for these monsters. The
98S, its mate, has a home at tne Need
les. and the trouble is that it is next
to impossible to get a tender that can
carry enough water to slack its al
most unappeasable thirst.