The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-24
AN IMMENSE TASK WAS UNDERTAKEN Southern Bridge Near Chatta- nooga a Marmoth Work
  OTHER RAILROAD NEWS Southern Installed New Train Service to Atlanta Yesterday--May Get Another Big
 Engine.

The Southern inaugurated it's new ser
 vice to Atlanta yesterday. The first trips were made under very satisfactory cir | cumstances, both to the road and the
 travelling public.
 The fast trains all made their trips in | five hours or under, and the train sched-
 uled to leave Birmingham yesterday
 morning made up over thirty minutes be- tween Birmingham and Atlanta. . All four of the fast through trains car
 ried large loads, and the two locals each
 was did an almost record business. A
 number of passengers who came over ex- pressed themselves as we'll pleased with
 the trip.
 The train scheduled to leave Birming ham at GAO o'clock yesterday morning
 was held forty minutes for connections,
 but made up practically all the time be- fore reaching Atlanta. The trip over was made in about four hours and twenty minutes, which is considerably under schedule time.
 The train which left Atlanta at o'clock yesterday morning arrived here at 12:O1 o'clock on time. The train
 which left Atlanta at 4:15 o'clock yester
 day afternoon arrived on time last night at 9;15 o'clock.
 The afternoon train out of Birmingham leaving at 6:50 o'clock reached Atlanta on time. On account of the heavy travel the local trains Into Birmingham from Atlanta were each late about thirty min utes.
 It is probable that the Alabama Great southern will get another powerful engine of the same type as engine No. 1ss, which has proven so successful in pulling the heavy through trains on that road be- tween Birmingham and Chattanooga. While General Manager Garrett of the Queen and Crescent route has not yet signifed his Intention of ordering an other engine of that type he has stated On more than one occasion that if No. ls8 came up to expectations he would get am other one. He s away on his vacation at present and is expected back in Gin cinnati about the first of next month. It bhdttti VIII piODdbiJ DC thktil up at that time. Tn numbering the engines No. 1s9 has been left open for an en- glne of that class.
 Chattanooga, Tenn, July 23.--(special j. The Southern railway has undertaken a mammoth piece of work in the erection of a draw bridge over the Tennessee river just above Oats Island, Ala, or thirty-two miles below this city.
 For over three weeks the steamer Joe Wheeler has been transporting supplies and building material from Chattanooga to the site of the bridge. In less than one month fifteen carloads of construct ing material, 5000 barrels of cement, two concrete mixers, saw mill and two rock crushers have been carried down stream for the new bridge, and barge, cement house and a large camp have been erected.
 With enough material on hand to last for months the work on the bridge will be started at once, with the hope of com structing the piers by the first of May The bridge will span the river at com paratively narrow point On the south ern side of the stream there is sharp cape out Into the river on which one side of the bridge will rest. The structure will be 1000 feet In length and will rest on four water and two land piers The pivot pier for the draw bridge win stand exactly in the center of the river. The pivot pier on which the draw turns will be thirty-fve feet in diameter. The ether water piers will stand on a foun. dalton 16x35 feet and the land founda- ton piers are 14x3o feet. The piers will be constructed on solid concrete founda- tion and will be nInety-flve feet high.
 The Converse Bridre company of this city will furnish the shells which will sur round the water piers below the water line. These shells will take the place of the cofferdams, and their use in the con struction of the bridge is considered quite departure from the process which is usually employed in the construction of large draw bridges
 The contracts for the erection of the