The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-10-20
TAKES MONEY
TO RUN A
RAILROAD
Some Ways in Which Millions
Have Been Spent on South
ern Pacific Lines
IIME-SAVING CUT-OFFS COST
Hartman Has Expended $1oA,- =
349,36o in Past Three Years
for Improvem ents

From details recently made public
by the Southern Pacific company 1t Is
learned that during the past three
years some S104 ,S4S,369 has been spent
for the betterments and equipments on
the lines of the Hartman system, in
Guiding the Southern Pacific, the o. S.
L., and the o. r. & N. the Union Pa
cific, Chicago & Alton and Kansas City
Southern. On the Union and South
ern Pacific lines alone the improve
ments have entailed expenditure of
ss6, sos, ,93S.
The chief railway construction in
volved has been what is generally
known as the Ogden-Lucin cutoff.
This cutoff, which will be completed,
and over which trains will be running
by the first of the year, has cost to
date S4,400,162. BY this means 103
miles of crooked and back-number
track has been thrown out between
LGcin and Ogden for the diret grade
and trestling of little over forty
four miles across two arms of the
great Salt Lake.
Latest reports show that the work of
construction is all closed except about
nine-tenths of mile of trestling. This
cutoff line takes off all the steep
grades, running as high as ninety feet
To the mile and leaves no grade great
er than twenty-one feet to the mile.
There is practically no curvature, the
new engineering reducing the curves
and cutting out fully four thousand
degrees of curvature. The distance
across the two arms of the great Salt
Lake is twenty-six and one-half miles
East of Promotory the roadbed is en-
banked except for one opening of six
hundred feet, provided for the outlet
of the Bear River. West of Promo
tory the work is being embarked ex-
cept about eleven miles out of a dis
tance of nineteen and half miles.
The trestling here is substantially
done, and the engineers plan to fill
in steadily, making a permanent en-
bankment long before the piling be-
gins to show signs of age.
With the completion of this Ogden
Lucin cutoff railroad men say that
the saving of time on the main over
land line will be such that the trav-
eler may leave San Francisco at 5
oeolck in the afternoon instead of 10
o'clock in the morning as at present
on the Overland Limited, and arrive
in Chicago at the same time, thus af
fecting a saving of fully seven hours
in the overland travel. In other words
the Hartman interests have expended
very close to five million dollars in
order to save the cross-continenI
traveller seven hours of time in his
overland journey.
Upon the main central overland line,
besides the Ogden-Lucin cutoff, much
of the track has been rebuilt, amount
ing between Reno and Lucin to 202
miles of new road. This is actual new
construction, not merely relaying Of
modern so pound steel on old grades,
but nearly all the old roadbed through
this section amounting to fully $50
miles has been abandoned. More than
over l3,6O0 degrees of curvature have
come out of this line of road and 81, 900
ieet OF grade, ascent and descent, has
oeen cut out This construction work
oh the central line has included also
.nIrty-six new steel bridges with
n'dsonary abutments requiring over
eight million pounds of steel.
Between Reno and Lucin, four tun-
heIs nave been constructed with an ag-
sfegate of 10.100 feet or nearly two
mics these tunnels being in length
respectively 1900, 2600, 5000 and 100
ieec The principles of modern rail-
ROAD engineering have prevailed here,
the railroad no longer seeking the best
grace, involving the least expenditure,
out the most direct and most level
grade, plunging boldly through the
mountain, in order to get the track on
as nearly water level basis as pos
sibie. A rail-cad official, speaking OF
the new construction ON the central
line, said the other day. that the
curves of the new trcak were made to
accommodate the heaviest rolling sto *
moving at any speed.
over 5000 aew freight cars haN e
Deen ordered for the line between 0g-
u 9aA = erar ci 20. Ns ST or them
and forty and fifty tons gross, longer
ano higher and capable of carrying
(COutiuuod on DaEo A.