Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-01-24
Los Angeles Convinced That Road
Has Come to Stay
BIG GANGS OF MEN AT WORK
Senator Clark IL SparingNo Expense
TO Make the Road Hest Equipped
la the Country,

half-tones Of equipment and men at
work on the San Pedro
The article accompanying the illus
tratons Is as follows.
Whether the oregon Short Line from
Salt Lake city to Calientes, New has
been absorbed by tho San Pedro, Los
Angeles and Salt Lake or not, II IL eer-
tain that at least one line OF shining
rails win stretch from the City Of Los
Angeles In the near future
Senator Clark's hen Is stlll on HE
lay, and, while not doing an much
cackling perhaps, as the Hartman
bird she Is accommodating a big nest
full OF eggs, nevertheless, and they are
being Matched out with great rapldlty.
Go 10 Hobart Junction, and YOU WI
Nee the big incubator at work,
A Times STAFF photographer took
run down that way yesterday and
caught few Views with his camera,
which may give faint idea Of the slse
and number OF chicks that are just
leaving the she'll
Railroads that are merely being built
on paper do not require great stacks Of
material, and that of the very best
that Is made nor long strings Of rolling
stock Of the most modern design end
most substantial structure,
A speculative road can be launched
With a lot Of old junk; anything Tn the
shape Of track and equipment VIII DO
TO make believe that a railroad Is be-
ing built II the said road IL merely u
boom project or bond-noating venture.
But II takes money.--barrels OF Tito
start of railroad enterprise In the
manner Senator w. A. CLARK ana his
associates are doing IT,
Hobart. at the crossing OF the San
Pedro Los Angeles and Salt Lake and
Southern California Santa FEB roads,
Just outside the southeast limits OF the
city IL the poinI where the main salt
Lake route branches OF from the old
Terminal road, which IL now part Of
the salt Lake system. Here are located
tie construction yards OF the company,
where the material for the construction
Of tie road onward TO Salt Lake Ia be-
Ing accumulated In enormous quanti-
ties, TO be rushed forward from this
base OF supplies as fast as trauk-laylng
can proceed.
The yards are situated along the
stem and between the arms OF an linz
nense Y one arm OF which swings on
from the old Terminal track leading to
the main terminus In Los Angeles,
and the other curvlng into thte track
"a the ocean terminus at East San
Pedro. The stem Of the Y IL n Tangent
which vanlshes IN the distance a. zone
a 4 IA NJ IA a nd .
ward toward the San Gabriel river.
This Is the first magnificent stretch OF
track reaching toward Salt lake. The
first few miles OF II have Just been
laid, and as fast as the arroyos and
streams which the line crosses ca1 be
brldgcd the work of spiking down the
rails will be carried forward
senator Clark Is evidently sparng no
expense TO make his road one Of the
most durable and best-equlppei In the
country, Nothing but the very best
material OF any sort Is being used IN
the construction OF track bridges, etc,
The new locomotives, freight and pas
senger cars, and other equipments, too,
ore the best that money can buy
The material already In the yards at
hobart represents an Investment Of
itbhulNbb VI lHbufhliAH VI uu'lbIot Nlli
treinloads OF additional supplies are
being received daily.
One interesting feature about the
forwarding of track materials Is that
the rails, bridge iron, combination
joints, tie plates, bolts, spikes and other
steel products are being brought from
the mills In the East In the oompanys
own new cars.
TIE Pullman Car company Is build
ing q number OF immense box and fat
cars, each with $4,000 pounds capacity,
twice that of the ordinary freight ear,
for the Salt Lake road AS Iast as
these cars are completed, they are
run to the steel works where they are
loaded with supplies for the road, and
then started Oh their first trip across
the continent. There are big strings
OF these cars on the sldlngs now, al
Hobart, and more are on the way.
The rolling stock that Is coming also
Includes some OF the finest passenger
coaches ever seen on western road.
The new locomotives ordered, several
OF which have already been delivered
and are now In service are OF the New
York Central type, and for size and
power, equal anything In the line Of
motive power on this coast,
To assure smooth running Cor such
monstrous rolling stock, roadbed and
track as firm as the foundations OF
the everlasting hills are required
They call II Pennsylvania track"
the one that Is being constructed for
the Salt Lake road, The old "Pennsy"
has the reputation OF being about as
solid and safe as anything that exists
In the rallrOaod line; therefore, II Is
a good thing TO pattern after The
constructors of the Salt Lake road say
they are not only patternlng after the
Pennsylvania, but are Improving upon
II. IL this be true then there viii be
no better railway construction I'm the
country than that now under way.
Nothing but the best seventy-hye-
pound steel rails are being used,
These are not splced together with
the old fashioned fish plates but by
continuous steel joints Weighing
twenty-nlne pounds each, This as
sures a smoothness and easlness of
track not attained by the old style OF
construction Sagging rails and
springlng joints are impossible under
the new system.
Neither do the rails rest directly on
the wooden ties, but on steel plates
pressed into the wood. Tons and tons
OF these tie plates are being used, Thr
process OF fitting them on the ties and
pressing them into the wood Is an in
terestlng one, A complicated machine
rugged up on Hat car and run by
stationary steam engine, on the other
end OF the car, Is used for this pur-
pose The car containing the machine
is run alongside a car loaded with ties,
or n pile of them In yard, and the
ties are then fed into one end Of the
machine and they emerge at the other
end with the plates pressed into them
The proper distance apart. II takes
two men 10 feed the plates into the
machine-one man TO guild the ties
into II, another TO pull them ont
and an engineer TO apply the steam
pressure at the proper intervals. A
dozen more men are required TO bring
the ties and plates up TO the machine
as fast as they are needed, and to
take the plated ties away and load
them on cars on adjoining tracks.
which convey them TO the place where
tracklaying Is in progress The ca