Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-12-11
R NEWS
ERIK Begins on the Transfer Of the Santa
Fe Freight Yards at Albuquerque.
Other improvements.

Irhe contamination long desired by
people of Albuquerque Is coming
pass, The freight yards OF the
Inta Fee company are to be moved
south OF their present location
the nuisance of switching across
iiroad avenue Is to be done away
In. Work on the big change has
Feady begun, a force OF men having
len detailed on the preliminary
kyk yesterday. To-day General
knagar ]. ". Hurley and Superin'
hdent r. j. Parker, Of the west.
grand division, will arrive In
city from the cas- to supervise
beginning OF the work. &
frhe main freight yards are to be
bved south Of the water tank and
E main line Is to be double tracked
far south as the stock yards and as
north as the brewery. Four
I,cks are to remain opposite the
|varado and Santa Fe station, ex-
sivcly for passenger trains. South
the shops the tracks are to be ele,
ted eich'een inches all the way
the stock yards.
THE Improvement. which will re-
lire The expenditure Of a great
al OF money. win be one Of the
Ist changes which has been made
the Santa Fe in Albuquerque since
heaGVfsnl Alvarado and the pres
( station were erected.
lit will make the big hotel a mncl
bre desirable place 70 stop, as the
Use and smoke Of the switch engines
be far removed AMI the guest
l,ms will be a hundred per cent.
ieter. But the change that will be
! ,st appreciated by the people of she
v will be the abating OF the nui-
nee of switching. across the rail.
ad avenue crossing. With the pres.
I arrangement OF tracks 1t has
en- very difficult for the railway en-
oyees to keep from obstructing traf-
more or less at all hours Of the
y and frequently travel up apd
wn the city's main thoroughfare
s been seriously embarrassed there
L.. The crossing has long been a
,nace to thesafety Of the public.
hough there have been remarkably
v accidents. The removal OF the
sight switching from the crossing
II add greatly to the appearance
Railroad avenue and enhance the
iue Of property in that vicinity.
This Is but one step however, m
. program Of Improvements laid
! BY the company for the Santa Fe
pperties at this point.
rhe appropriation Of the enlarge
int Of the big shops and the sub.
iuent increase in equipment Is one
the biggest items Of the big bud
/, for betterments on the Atchison
the southwest. After the change
the local strackage other chang
are expected to follow fast. They
.lude I large new AL steel water
| ak, new ice houses, a handsome
W reading room and library build
3 and others too numerous to men,
IN.
iOn Monday the force Of men at
brk changing the tracks will De
Seatly increased and the task will
d completed as soon as 1t can be
pne without interfering too seri-
lsly with the shifting Of cars in
he yards.-Albuquerque Journal.
RAILROAD NOTES.
Brakeman Packard is laying of TO,
trip.
Roy Sundt is the new night call
oy at the yard Office.
Extra Conductor German is taking
short rest at present.
Meals at all hours. Chilli o carne,
.Oc. Railroadmen's Rest. 11-1O3
Engine 902 is in the hole for a few
undergoing an overhauling.
There are now seventeen engineers
nd twenty-one flremen on the extra
'oard.
Conductor Trainor, who has charge
fthe. ballast train Is laying OF for
few days.
Conductor ]. Burks has been forced
q take al short lay OF On account
4 Illness.
Brakeman +. r. Fisher IL laying on
nd Brakeman James Trott has TAX
his run.
Conductor Swallow, Of the south
nd, il laying Oh for q few trips,
n account Of illness.
Tom O'Leary has been appointed