The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-12-23
|LWAY RUMBLES
Very Little Improvement 10
Local Traffic Conditions
ILLINOIS CENTRAL BUYS SIXTY
NEW BIG ENGINES FOR ITS
LINES 49, ACCIDENTS IN
CAIRO YARDS.

CRtHO INhDos
Traffic conditions show little inn |
provement If anything the situation !
is becom ne more strained, Shippers /
are finding their immediate wants |
There is not a Cairo line which can |
by the utmost effort supply the wants |
for cars of its numerous shippers.
With the fine weather for moving |
traffic the volume is increasing daily |
and the complaints on the part OF the /
shippers are becoming more pro !
nounced No one questions as TO the
reads doing their best TO move the
business offered. The Big Four will
probably by the latter part Of next
week be in better shape to move IFS
business, for the locomotives which
have been in service in constructing
the Indiana Harbor road will then be
partially released and assigned to the
freight traffic of the ST. Louis Gin.
,innati and Cleveland diyi. ions, al
three Of which are badly in need of
power
Superintendent J. S, Sweeney, Of Mt.
Carmel, is giving the closest attention
ITO the moving of cars as soon as load
eli and tine same is rue Of other roads
There is no complaint on this score,
the chief trouble being that they have
not cars in 1uficient number TO move
! he heavy traffic Of the present time
The some is true Of the other roads
as well as he Big Four The Illinois
Central would be doing third more
business had ii the cars, and the same
lis true Of the Mobile and Ohio, and
9 the Cotton Belt lines The locomotives
which are In service are all hauling 10
their fullest capacity, and while an
/ immense tonnage is being moved the
! roads are abused for not moving more
/ Fortunately for local shippers they
( are ed much better than the
through shippers This is due 10
the fact that through cars are con
stantly arriving and they are on their
return utilized by loading with freight
which helps local conditions.
Sixty of the most powerful and mod
ern locomotives ever constructed are
now being received by 'he1lllnois Cen
trail railroad for service on the chi
caeo. ST. Paul Chicago-Omaha, and
! Chicag0-New orleans lines. fifty being
equally divided between the passenger
and freight departments and ten for
the switching service.
The passenger engines are of tho
+ Pacific type and are beauties They
weigh $4,000 pounds have a capacity
! r. 1000 gallons of water and fifteen
/ tons # coal. and their driving wheels
are seven feet three inches in diam
eter. They are guaranteed 10 cover
seyenty-hye 10 ninety miles an hour
and one OF them will be used to pull
the Centrals Cuban special the new
/ fwenythree hour train between Chi
caeo and New Orleans that viii go ih-
Ito service December % in connection
| with The steamer Prince Arthur TO
+ Havana. The freight locomotives are
powerful machine, weighing over 100
ions and guaranteed so haul G,000 tons
Of freight The switching engines are
among the largest ever built for this
D service Weighing seventy tons and
capable Of hauling 5000 tons.
The new equipment viii give the IT.
linois Central nc of these monster
freight locomotives. fry pa. scnger
engines Of the large Pacific type. and
twenty FIVE r. the slant switching en-
eines with these addition the power
Iof the ulin0 Central has been
brought up fo The highest standard 81
efficiency. mechanical design and haul
'nr capacity
s smith of The big -Four left last
evening for paducah. Nv. where he at
tended "a dance last night lie viii
return today
4 John Sullivan. cashier at the BIG
4 Pour. ler yesterday for Champaign.
IHl where hr viii visit with bis fam
. Iy during DE- holidays.
Train No. O. fue in Cairo at 2.3o p
RI. vas derauel north Of Holly Spring
4 yesterday m ulnE one woman and
one child were killed and leveral in
iured 81 reselt. Strange a. 81 may
seem the engine and express car re-
NAMED on she track while every other
car was deraifed. This may he &C
1 conntea fer hv surprising thst the