The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-06

care of it's prospective increased business.
expecting to get the patronage that went
10 the Pennsylvania
NJ. W. Mansfield. superintendent of the
Indianapolis & Vincennes, has issued the
assistant trainmaster in immediate charge
of operation on the coal branches and OPP
Grafton of mines at Edwardsport and Bick-
nell with headquarters at Bus rod
The Philadelphia Reading hourly ex-
press train service between Philadelphia
and New York is said TO be very popular.
Pullman cars are now the rule more than
the exception. something heretofore prac-
tically unknown in the Reading passenger
service, except on special occasions on the
Atlantic City road.
1t is believed that arrangements have
been completed by which the New Or
leans lines of the Queen & Crescent will be-
tenn When this is perfected 1t will be
followed by division of the Southern lines
into an eastern and western system for
greater convenience in operation.
The PENNSYLVANIA is making good head
way under better weather conditions to-
wards relieving the congestion OF business
at division points. General Manager At
terbury said he was getting the work
thoroughly systematiZed. and in time would
have the matter we'll In hand. The COM
pany is short of power. which is one of the
chief troubles.
An official of the Rock Island. in speaking
of the recent order for $50 locomotives, said
that the growth of the company during the
last year or two necessitates not only the
present addition to its equipment. but that
more cars and engines will be purchased IN
the near future. The last expenditures for
motive power averages $4,000 per engine,
total of A,O00,0O
The Pennsylvania has decided to take
over the control of the restaurant in the
Broad street station, Philadelphia, upon
expiration of the lease, April /. This Is one
of the most profitable eating houses on the
Pennsylvania system This company took
control of the restaurant at Pittsburg
year ago. and practically controls the In
dianapolis restaurant
c. f. Newhall, chief engineer of the Wa
bash, who has been over the system IN
company with w. s. Dane. superintendent
or bridges, has prepared plans for num-
Der OF new steel and stone structures be-
tween Danville, ILL.,. and Toledo, FIT. Wayne
and Detroit, and will submit the plans to
Joseph Ramsey, Jr., president, Tor lnstruc-
tons.
The Pennsylvania limited, a twenty-four
hour train between New York and Chicago,
will hereafter be run in two sections, one
coming west over the Panhandle from
Plttsburg to st. Louis, the other over the
Pittsburg, FIT. Wayne & Chicago between
Pittsburg and Chicago, and with the TAX
ing effect of the spring timetable the time
of these trains will. it is understood. be
shortened.
L. A. Robinson. general passenger agent
OF the Pittsburg q Lake Erie, has been
elected president of a company which will
build an electric line from Ashtabula to
Woodlawn Beach, on Lake Erie. Samuel
L. Gage, superintendent OF construction
of the Lake Shore, is the company's vice
president. 1t is said the Vanderbilts are
interested In the project, but this is doubt
fiI.
1t is stated that trains OF the Big Four
will be running into Pittsburg within
twelve months. 1t is proposed to build
a line from Gallon. o., to Youngstown,
where the Big Four would connect with
the Pittsburg & Lake Erie and the Erie
road also. Its construction would cut down
the distance between Youngstown and
Gallon fully one hundred miles compared
with the route via Ashtabula and Cleve-
land.
The Big Four is spending a large sum
of money it's ST. Louis division. 1t has
just got its new block system into opera
ton and has increased its sidetrack room
several miles. improvements of this char
acter are not yet completed. but when COM
pleted the second track will be so extended
that trains can be run at as high speed as
If the road was double track. One of the
troubles the company has had to contend
with on this division was its short side
tracks, which delayed the movement of the
heavy freight trains. Now there are a num-
Der long enough to accommodate two or
three of the long freights hauled by their
mammoth locomotives