Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-03-28
TRACK AND TRAIN.


Engines $50 and 939 are In he re
pair department for low cylinder
packing.
Felix Garcia has been employed by
the railroad company IN the capacity
Of engine Waterman.
Yard gear 1888 is having trouble
with the steam pipes and Is in the
hospital for ~overhauling.
Two firemen have recently been ap.
pointed to this district from Ration.
They are for temporary service.
Owen Harmon has been sent to
Wagon Mound to act as engine watch
man in place Of Allan +. Peter.
Everybody was at work yesterday
at the round house. There was too
much to be done by the present force
to allow Of any vacations.
Engines S15 and SAL lave been as
signed to the ballast trains in the sec
ond district. The former is a recent
arrived here from La Junta.
Allan F. Peter, engine Waterman
at Wagon Mound, has been relieved
in his duties there and is back in the
shops as machinists helper.
It is reported that M. II. Williams,
foreman Of the bridge and building
department for New Mexico, has ac-
cepted a situation on the Kansas di-
.lde superintendent Fox.
j. Ross Clark has given emphatic de-
NAL to a story published at Salt Lake
that the Salt Lake raiload will be unit
ed with the Oregon Short Line and
operated as part Of that system.
The navy department has awarded
the contract for the transportation Of
naval passengers across the continent
to the Chesapeake & Ohio, and the
{ Southern Pacific railroad companies.
The compressed air motor Is work
ing like a charm on the new turn
table. Connection was made last Sat
urday night ami all the engines are
now turned by this labor saving
mechanism.
It Is said that a guard was placed
at each gate Of the Ration Santa Fe en-
closure last Monday, and that hence
forth no one will be permitted inside
of the yards without a special per-
init from the master mechanic.
Wrecks. landslides and sn0wslides III
the Sierra Nevada mountains recently
impeded progress on the Central Pa
cific. carried away telegraph wires and
cut off telegraph communication with
the east. Three overland passenger
trains were stalled at Reno.
The Ration firemen have heard nc re-
turns as yet from the expert who was
sent there about three weeks ago TO
make test trips for the company on
the big 900. class engines, which trials
were made to decide the question of
allowing the firemen of that class OF
engines an assistant on this division.
The Southern Pacific has arranged
what Ii terms a free travelling, u
brary.n 1t is planned to distribute the
dray load Of paper and other periodi-
Gals that reaches the literary depart
ment daily among employees and resi-.
dents along the line in the sparsely
settled west.
The Iowa house OF representatives
has passed a bill requiring railroads
to grant return passes to stock ship.
pers and also provide their freight
cabooses with sanitary appliances,
The bill Ii said to be certain Of pass
age through the senate. Efforts &c
saddle it with riders proved unayail
able.
A reduction Of twenty-five men was
made Saturday at the Ration Santa Fl
shops. This reduction is due e
the dull season OF the year and to Tho
further fact that forty new engines
have recently been added 10 the wesI
end Of the road, which will not need
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