Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-26
STEAMBOAT RIDE THE BLOCK SYSTEM
NEW METHOD OF OPERATING
TRAINS BETWEEN BuRLING.
TON AND vILLlscA.
Burlington to Use New System After
Tomorrow - Makes Operation of
Trains Safer Will Adopt Complete
System Later - Railroad Notes.

From Saturdays Daily.
After tomorrow the telegraph block
system of operating trains will be used
on the main line OF the Chicago, Bur
lington & Quincy Railway between
Burlington and Villisca. Experience
has proven that this system simplilies
the operation of trains and greatly les
sens the danger of wrecks and COLI
sions.
The block system has been in use
on the Burlington lines in Illinois for
some time and is gradually being ex-
tended over the Burlington system. For
the present the train order signals will
be used as block signals but it is ex-
pected that later an entire new sys-
| tenn of block signals will be estab-
lished. Where the block system is in
full operation train orders are dispens-
ed with but the system will not be
adopted to this extent between Bur-
lington and Villisca at present. For
| the past week meetings have been
held at the union depot for the pur-
pose of instructing the employees in
the standard code rules governing the
operation Of the telegraph block sys-
| TEN.
| Trainmen regard the new system
with favor and say that it throws ad-
ditional safeguards around the opera
tion of trains and reduces the possibil-
| ity of wrecks and collisions to mini
mum.
Engine 2,7O0 Makes Record.
The large new engine of the Bur-
lington, No. 2.700, a description OF
which was given in the Courier sever.
al days ago, made a record breaking
run early this week. 1t pulled the
special train of Paul Morton, secretary
\ of the navy from Creston to Chicago
| making the first time an engine has
made this trip without stopping for
repairs or to have it's fires cleaned.
The train consisted Of six passenger
coaches and left Creston about IL
o'clock Sunday evening. The train
reached Ottumwa early Monday morn
ing and was pulling into the passen
ger station at Chicago before O'Clock
in the morning. The entire distance
from Creston to Chicago, 510 miles
was covered in less than nine hours
ten tons Of coal being consumed or
Luo lC Cu6ll0 WdS III Cudl 80 VI
Engineer Moard and Fireman Long o1
the Burlington and made the trip baci
to Aurora without stopping to have its
firse cleaned or recoaling at Chicago
Many theories have been advanced
: why the feat had never been accom-
plished before, but the, reason givel
by the best informed was that on ,
trip of this length the mass of Gin
ders which collect in the firebox woul,
never fail to burn out the CRATES II
, the smaller engines. The 200 has
, much improved firebox differing iron
the older type in many respects tha
the engine was accepted simply as a.
experiment by the company
1t is thought that the engine is car
able of greater things and railroa
men expect that before long an ez
perimental run from Chicago to Cour
: Gil Bluffs will be made.
A Record for Speed.
Sunday furnished record for spec
! on the Burlington. The fast run wa
made by Engineer Samuel Dove, Fire
man F. R. Reimer and Conductor Fal
rell The train left Mendoza at 11:2
: making S3 miles in 70 minutes. Th
= run from Galesburg to Burlington
distance of 43 miles was made in
minutes. This beats all previous re,
S ords for speed on the Burlington an
K will probably hold good for some tim
to come.
s New Engineer Named.
$ Circulars announce the appointmer
: of L. F. Goodale as engineer of mail
! tenance of way Of the Missouri di
q trict formerly known as the Missou
line of the Burlington. He will be Ill
e der w. L. Breckenridge of Chicag
: chief engineer of the Burlington sy
S TEN, whose supervision has been e:
l. tended over the Missouri district.
Another Burlington Change.
e F. A. Chase,general master mechal
). ic of the Missouri lines of the Burlin
ton, with headquarters at st. Josep
= Mo- has been promoted to the positio
= of general master mechanical inspec
+. or of the Missouri division of the Blu
lington Route and will e.
ter upon the discharge of his new d
ii a., -, +l,o o0tb inct Tho ofoo of oa