The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-12
Round House and Yards No
 Longer in Cig Limits RELIEVES THE SITUATION
It Is Estimated That Fifty Less Trains Will Pass Through Brning- ham When the Change
 Is Made.

The Louisville and Nashville Railroad company will move it's yards and round house to Boyles next Sunday at noon. The change will relieve the freight con- gestion in the Birmingham yards of at least fifty trains a day as well as all the switching except that required Tor the local freight business.
 It will decrease the risk of accident at the Fourteenth street crossing, the Eighteenth street crossing, the Twentieth street crossing, the twenty-fourth street crossing and the First avenue crossing near the furnaces at Twenty-seventh street by at least 50 per cent. so far as the Louisville and Nashville trains are concerned.
 Commencing at Noon Sunday all freight trains coming into Birmingham from the northern end of the road will be stopped at Boyles and all freight trains from the south end will be run straight through to Boyles and make no stops in side the Birmingham city limits. After the noon hour Sunday no switch ing will be done except that required in loading and unloading local trains and the placing of cars for the local freight business. All through trains will be made up and the switching necessary will be done at Boyles, which is seven miles from the city.
 Double Track. The Louisville and Nashville has ar ranged for a double track through the entire old freight yards, and all through trains will be run over these tracks, which are the main line. This will not even necessitate their stopping in Bir- mingham at all. The southbound through trains will go out from Boyles on the right hand track, and the northbound trains will pass through on the other track.
 There are about fifty trains daily that pass through Birmingham now coming from the north, and these will all stop at Boyles. There are a large number of local freights out of Birmingham which previously were made up in the Birming- ham yards. In future these will start out of Boyles There are dozens of switch engines at work daily in the yards switching cars They will all do their work at Boyles.
 The yard change means that 100 engines will be taken to Boyles on Sunday. The new round house at that place has stalls for forty-fve engines and many others can be accommodated in the round house tracks.
 The yards have a capacity of 200O cars. and there are about twenty-one train tracks In the yards. The yards are com s. tVuf the capacity of the old yards of that road. which extended from Avenue F on the west to Thirty-second street on the east, a distance of about two miles.
 The old yards crossed all the princi- pal streets in the city, and the accidents were frequent, until some of the cross ings had been called death traps. These. it is said, will be practically things of the past.
 The coal bins of the yards at Boyles are capable of holding 10000 tons of coal, an immense supply, and enough to run the entire system for many days, if 1t were impossible to secure any other sup ply.
 Modern Yards.
 The yards are among the most modern on the Louisville and Nashville system, as well as being about as large as any others The road has been workinl on them for more than year. The shops will not be moved to Boyles for some time yet.
 The Louisville and Nashville has spent something like $4O0000 in it's yards at Boyles, and the additional facilities will enable the road to handle any increase in business that is apt to come in the next few years
 The old yards in the city limits and the round house will be used principally for em ergencies. The local freight business is very heavy and a number of tracks are required to accommodate this busi- ness There are team tracks, tracks to private companies and industries and tracks to the Louisville and Nashville freight house, which will be in constant use.
 It is believed that the Louisville and Nashville will be able to move it's freight with much more ease and speed from the new yards. and the possibility of congestion Is much smaller. In fact, con- gestop will be practically done away uifh