The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-05-12
BOSTON & MAINE
SMASHES A RECORD.
A Limited Express Freight
Of 1913 Cars--45OO Tons.
The biggest Ever" Worcester
Salt Train and Largest Train
Ever Handled by the q. & M.
Is on the way.
TRAIN IS DUE AT WoodsyiIle, Friday
13th-4:30 P. M.
(Bv Special Dispatch. }

In this day of big things it takes
whopper to make us turn our he ads
Still, when railroad breaks a record
we become at once interested.
Do you remember when a small
boy how you used to go down to the
station to sea the circus train 20
through? Do you recollect how you
used to count the cars in long freight
train?
Well, decidedly unique freight train
is on the way which will make Bar
NUNS circus train, or even the usual
long freight look in comparison like
toy train in shop window.
The great train now en- route-the
record breaker-left Silver Springs,
N. Y, May 8, and was delivered to
the Boston q Maine at Mechanicsville,
N. Y. Tuesday afternoon. 1t is called
the Worcester Salt Limited Express
Freight" and now we'll on the way
over the Fitchburg Division. The
gigantic train consists of 1l8 heavily
loaded cars, and is conceded by rail-
road men to be the longest and heavi-
est train ever handled by New Eng
land railroad, the best previous rec.
ord being held by the N. Y. N. H.
& H., which record, by the way, was
made in handling train of Worcester
Salt, If NJ cars in May, 1903.
The Worcester limited was deliv-
cred to tie B & NJ h. r., by the
the road in four sections, drawn by
eight locomotives. They were obliged
to split tie train up in this way III or
der to make time, and even then we're
a few minutes late in reaching Me-
chanicsvllle.
1t is now up to the b. q M. to
bring the special through to Newport,
W.T., its final destination, on the fast
schedule laid out for it. Gen. Supt.
Sanborn is using some of his newest
and most powerful locomotives in
handling the train, and we understand
it is being moved in two sections Of
fifty nine cars each, run under five
minutes Roadway, which Will be the
longest single sections ever handled
by New England road, and 1T Is a
question if any railroad in the United
States has ever before handled as large
a shipment of one commodity at one
time.
Cars will be dropped off en- route
for the various parties to whom they
are consigned, commencing at Green
field, Mass. but most of the train
will go through as far as Nashua, and
about fifty cars go to Moodvsille, n.
H., and beyond.
That there may be no hitch in main
tanning the fast passenger train sched-
ule of the Limited express freight,
special representatives OF the b. d M.
motive power department and the di-
vision Supt's Will accompany the
special en- route.
IIr
AS is customary with Worcester
Salt Specials" the cars will be OF late
design, from the Erie r. H., uniform
in size and color, and especially dec
Grated for the occasion with flags,
banner, etc. Souvenir flags viii be
distributed to all those who witness
the passing through of the train:
Here is where young America Will
get his work in.
A special passenger coach Will be
attached to the rear of the first Sec
ton for the accommodation of members
of the press and accompanying party.
At Nashua and Woodsville, N. H..
the special will be sidetracked for the
night, and receptions given to the
trade in honor of this distinctive COM
mercial event.
We cannot give comprehensive
description of the mammoth train for
but few figures have been furnished
us. You must see the Worcester
Limited" to really appreciate It's
great size and unique appearance.
But we have a few interesting facts.
The average freight trains hauled in
the United States consist of about
twenty-five cars. The Nv orcester
Salt Limited" will have one hundred
and eighteen. The net weight of the
contents of the train will aggregate
4, $40, 600 pounds. The total load to
be hauled by engines which, of course,
includes weight of cars, is approx
mately 8, 900, 600 pounds. The train is
about one mile in length. 1t would
take at least twenty minutes to walk
the length of it. There is enough
Worcester Salt in the train to salt
rs. 800, 600 pounds of butter. This is,
therefore, the largest shipment OF
Dairy Salt ever made anywhere in the
world. The Salt in the cars is packed
in various size bags holding from 219
pounds upwards. We're it all packed
in pound bags, the size most COM
monty used. there would be 972, 900
in the train.
There is salt enough in the special
to fill the salt shaker of every family
III bl6 " nitCu OthbCo pO'O'"t VAHSSs
No danger OF New England citing too
fresh-for a while at least
In 1901. Worcester Salt Special
OF SO cars was shipped into this terri
tory, 70 cars were shipped in 1902; IN
| 1908 there were no cars shipped, and
this year comes the record breaker OF
| l18 cars.
While it is not our purpose to adver-
tise Worcester Salt in particular, we
are constrained to express the opinion
| that the increase in the size OF the
Especial" each year indicates a grow
| ing demand for this kind OF salt, and
that it must be pretty good salt to
necessitate Its Shipment in llo car
| trains.
Those interested in big and novel
things will no doubt be out to see the
big train when it passes through. and
this will include the before mentioned
small boy who will want his souvenir
| flag.
We think the manufacturers OF Wor-
cester Salt, and the jobbing concern
that sold the salt to the retail merch-
ants the HOlhrook Grocery Co., of