Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1904-12-10
RAILROAD NOTES


tFrom Saturdays Daily Cinzrnl
The modern locomotive costs from
3i5.0oo to $4,000
Thera are seven miles of railroads
Tor oach 100 ot area.
@ would require the work of $1,000.
900 teams 90 do The work now done
by the railroads
A new railroad line. sixty miles long.
from She RIO Paraguay lo che Cnaco
district be- projected in Auncion
r. v. MulHEnu. the travelling agent
LOT the 3anta Dc Central h-E returned
to BITE headquarters from an official
trip 10 Denver.
The Northeastern bns recently com
ploted q now passing track 5000 foot
long a. mVe post e06 iust the other
side ~ TurrLncC.
Frauk Dibort assistant treasurer
aud secretary OF the Santa Do Con
trail. has returned io the capital city
from a business "trip to ST. Louis and
Topeka.
a. Is Van Slyck. the travelling live
stock agent OF the Santa BE. with
headquarters at El Paso. was here
last nirht. continuing south Co the
Pass CITY
The railroad statistics show that che
average passenger can ride bS,9i7.6t5
mllos before getting killed. Always
make q a point to got ont and walk
the 68.ei7 6l6th mile.
santa Pc freight officials say that
oranges are beginning to move east
ward rapidly The shipments are av-
eraglnr from forty to nfty carloads
daily. and in short time they VIII
reach 100 cars or more
%. p Yoakum. chairman Of the
board OF directors of the Frisco sys.
! tenn. says. "The situation in the
entire west can be- summed up By
saying that prosperity prevails and
business Boo an lines o. very salts
| factory
Nobody appreciates the mild. easy
. weather We have been having this
TAN moro than the tralnu .. who Ike
tu have the season OF tho year when
Ithcy are compelled t0 climb over Ice.
covered cars of as short a duration
as possible
The santa Pc compnnya row OF
frame buildings north OF the depot and
Immediately west of the tracks In
Ration. n. NJ. are being torn down.
The lumber Ia them viii hc taken to
Trinidad and be- used in the erection
lof a depo, AZ that place.
Electric roads are multiplying so
rapidly that e. will shortly be- possible
20 go from Boston 20 Denver hy troll
Hey 10 1890. less than four years
ago. there was only 3liOl6 electric
horse power In the whole country To.
day there is 100000 electric horse
power
Russian railroad officials are much
ALARMED over the Increase In attempts
20 wreck trains Ia that country The
attempts average one in three days
land m per cent result in damage. u
! .s proposed 10 arm all railway officials
land give ox.soldIers positions when
ever possible and in this way put a
|chcck co the practice.
Engineer I.ouick, OF Santa Pc was
taken 90 the hospital 81 la luntn ou
account of the critical condition of
Bic health mr. loulck has Seen suf
, lorng from congestion ot the brain
for the past week. when cuupl,
of days ago paralysis of the throat
and chest developed. roudcring hii
condition most serious Mrs. louich
accompanied her husband to Ia Iunta
!, An official circular issued by th'
I Santa b. Central railway says tnhi
-lJ. W. Records. master mechanic o
the road. has resigned and that d
, succeed him. George ~. h.one ha'
been appointed superintendent 81 mo
tive power and rolling stock. viii
headquarters M Estancia. the appoint
3 mont 10 go into effect at once. Mr.
. shono comes from Alamosa, Colo
RADIO. where ho was connected In
, similar capacity with the Denver 4
Rio Grando railroad
The car shortage on eastern road
d ! Ga daily becoming more pronounced
b Not a road running east from Chicag'
e has escaped &c. The Pcnnsylyan..
and Lake Shore roads are among th'
1 heaviest sufferers 40 present The
are behind ga their orders Tor carr
/, .by several thousand. and could easil,
Ion from 1000 90 5000 cars da.
more than they are doing Tho fam
inc" 10 caused chiefly by the heaw
shipments OF iron and steel product
land general merchandise