The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-12
RAILROAD WORLD.

J. M. Barr, president of the seaboard
 and the party of officials who were with
 him in Birmingham for a couple of days left yesterday morning in his private
 car for Florida.
 MT. Barr had @ very busy day Sat
 urday in conference with representatives
 of various roads entering Birmingham
 President Barr announced while here
 that local passenger servlce would
 commence in January.
 The Athens Floral Park and Newman
 Air Line company has been organized at Atlanta, Ga., to build a railroad from Athens southeast to Newman, Ga, about 90 miles, via Munroe conyers, Flogal
 Park, and Fayetteville. Ransom Rogers,
 Empire building, Atlanta. is engineer. The Charles Dickens," a locomotive, was built at the Crewe shops of the Lon- don and Northwestern road in February, 1882, and since that time it has performed a wonderful service. The sylinders are Tx 24, driving wheels 7S inches, the heating surface 1064 square feet. The locomotive has remained in the same service on the line between Manchester and London, making 3S7 miles Der day. Up to 1902 it had made 100000 miles. The time out of ser vice for repairs averaged 12 per cent of It's working tlme and the cost of repairs S.56 cents per mile.
 A union station at Memphis now seems probability of the near future. Repre- sentatives of all the roads entering the city have held recent conferences with the city officials and other local organiza- tions. A. w. Sullivan, general manager Missouri Pacific. has been chosen to rep resent the railroad interests in the matter. D. B. LeMaster is chairman of the com- mittee representing the city
 D. o. Aston, heretofore chief clerk in the office of general freight agent of the Southern Railway at Atlanta, Ga, has been appointed general freight and pas- senger agent of the Georgia Florida & Alabama. with headquarters at Bain- bridge, Ga.
 The Queen and Crescent Is contemplat- ing the construction of new shops at both
 Chattanooga, Tenn, and Somerset, Ky, | Information Is that the plans and specin- | cations are now In the hands of C.. B. Nicholson, chief engineer. Cincinnati, o. ' w. A. Turner, travelling freight agent of the Southern Railway at Augusta, Ga, has been appointed commercial agent at
 Columbus, Ga., to succeed J. K. Mock, | transferred.
 The seaboard Is asking prices on ten ! 61-foot express cars and four 61-foot coaches
 C. r. Blue, heretofore superintendent of | bridges and buildings of the Mobile and | Ohio at Okolona, Miss, has been appoint. | ed superintendent of way and structures
 with headquarters at St. Louis. The American Locomotive company is l building seventeen locomotive engines fol l the Queen and Crescent Route. ! At a meeting held in Atlanta last week | traffic representatives of interested roads | reduced all classes of freight rates i from eastern points to Chattanooga, were
 agreed upon, being the first that has beer | granted in 20 years. They range from
 three to nine cents. according to the | class, and apply in a corresponding de | gree to Knoxville, Atlanta, Macon anc all points southeast of Chattanooga
 Rates from the same points to Nashville | however, remain IA cents lower thar those to Chattanooga.
 1 The grant is made after much cores | pondence by the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, the Southern, the Centra | of Georgia and the Cincinnati Southern l From eastern points to Chattanooga ths 1 reduction is cents first class, or 1 second, 3 on third, on fourth, on fifth | on sixth and on Class H.