Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1902-08-23
MORE B. & 0. ENGINES
WILL PLACE oRDERIN A FEW DAYS
FOR LARGE EQUIPMENT
VIII Cosr Neat sum-The Company Has
spent Large Amount In Past Year
for Rolling stock.

for Rolling stock.
Although the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company has within the past
year spent vast amount of money in
adding to it's equipment, further adj
ditions are still to be made. The adj
ditional rolling stock which it has or
dered within year is 254 locomotives,
1000 steel hopper cars and gondolas,
1900 box cars, 700 flats, 80 passenger
coaches and mail cars, B dining cars
and ? parlor and dining cars. Includ-
ed IL this number is the last order OF
100 new locomotives, which the com
pany has just decided to order for de-
livery next summer.
g The contract will be awarded in
few days. The company. in June, or
dered 100 engines to be delivered next
spring, and have "a now building de-
liveries to commence this week. 1t
was expected that these deliveries
would begin on July /, but the build
ers met with delays that made it inn
possible. The company ordered these
80 engines last winter, As of which are
consolidated freight engines, with sim
pie cylinders and weighing 1913, 900
pounds the other two being a special
type of shifting engines to be used in
yards where the curvature is very sharp
The first 100 order paced in June pro-
vides for IS consolidation freight en-
gines of the same type as the 4S10
heavy Atlantic type passenger loco
motives and Is heavy six-coupled
switches 1t is expected that the sec
ond order for 100 will be divided in
the same manner The necessity for
more power is daily apparent, but the
company has been very much embar-
assed in its efforts to add to the motive
power equipment by the fact that the
builders were crowded with work. 1t
did succeed last week in buying four
heavy engines from the American To-
connective works that were built for
another line and found to be too heavy
for the bridges. These engines will
be delivered this week. The 254 en-
gines now ordered will give the road
about 1900 engines large proportion
of which are of an exceedingly heavy
type and will enable it to handle q
very much larger lsiness. These en-
gines will cost about 81, 800, 900.
MORE PASSENGER CARS.
The passenger equipment order
placed last winter includes 20 high
class coaches combination passenger
and baggage car, II baggage cars and
/ combination mail and baggage car.
Harlan & Hollingsworth are build
ing the coaches, and deliveries are ex-
pected September t. The other cars
We're built at Pullman, and have been
received. An additional order for %
coaches of the same type, 10 60-foot
baggage cars and two 50-foot mail cars
has been given to the Pullman Com
pany for delivery by March /. 1908.
Three new dining cars, equipped with
electric lights, fans, &c. and furnish
ed in a most handsome manner, are be-
ing built by the Pullman Company at
a cost of $3.50, 900 each. They will UNI
doubtedly be as fine cars as have been
built, Two combination parlor and
dining cars are being constructed by
the same company land the five will be
delivered in October.
The freight equipment has not been
neglected, although the Baltimore and
Ohio now has 81, 900 freight cars, and
the Pressed Steel Car Company has de-
livered 400 ont of 1000 steel hopper
and gondola cars ordered last Decem-
Der. Thirteen hundred box cars, with
steel under framing, and 700 fiat cars
of similar constructor, each of 100, 900
pounds capacity, are expected by No
vember /, the builders being late in
delivery.