The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1905-04-14
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RAILROAD NEWS.

Three construction train outfits have
been sent out.
R. D. Wolfe departed for Colorado
Springs Monday night.
J. E. Gould, master mechanic, took q
trip to Colorado Springs Monday.
William Mckinney is again employed
in the train service out Of GoOdland.
Machinist W. ]. Purvis is laying Of
sick with neuralgia of the head and ear.
o. Bascom, Of Ellis, Kan, was here
this week looking for a job as brake
man.
William Bloom is the new lunch
counter boy at the Depot hotel in day
time.
Russell Goode, left Tuesday night for
Chicago for a ten days visit with rela-
tives IN that city.
Conductor Luther Willie is temPOrar-
lily ii charge of the Rock Island yards
here on the day side.
Station Agent Cuthbert was quite sick
the fore part Of the week, but is better
and at his desk again.
Engine 1922 went out of the shops
Saturday and the I255 took her place
in the back shops Monday.
George Flynn is putting up a house
1880, and will have three rooms
E. L. WoIcott, late chief dispatcher
here, is now a dispatcher for the Mis-
souri, Pacific at Jefferson City, No.
Charles Golden, of Kansas City, No,
was here this week to see his cousin J.
Q. Dey, a Rock Island conductor.
Ira Holcomb is now working in the
water service on the Rock Island with
headquarters in DISQUALIFICATION
News.
Brakeman Cecil Modem is laying of
on account of spTaining his right ankle.
The accident happened while stepping
from a train.
A large steam shovel outfit is in the
Rock Island yards here. 1t will be sent
structiOn trains.
Harry Hill is home from PhilliPsburg
where he has been working in the rail-
road eating house. He will go to Good
land next week.-NOrtOn News.
A large amount of work is being done
IN the shops and the Rock Island works
here are employing a large force of men
on repair and betterment work.
Conductors c. H. Randall and Tom
Edwards, Of passenger service, were
mont, Colo, on a hunting trip.
William High will represent the local
division, Order of Railway Conductors,
at the national convention which will
be held in Portland, Ore, In May.
Conductor E. J. FipPins was on Con
ductOr Tom Edwards run on Al and
AZ, and Conductor 9. E. Tyler was on
Conductor Randall's run on 9 and 10.
this week. ....
G. ". Strain, the new division freight
agent of the Kansas division of the
Rock Island has reached Topeka. He
came from Colorado SPrings.-ToPeka
State Journal.
J. N. Carl, of Cedar Rapids, Ia,
general chairman of the Brotherhood OF
Railway Trainmen Of the Rock Island
system, was here last week in the in
terests Of the order.
R. D. Wolfe, until recently a clerk in
the master mechanics Office, returned
Sunday from a trip to Chicago. He
will take a position with the Rock Is
land either at Colorado Springs or Hor-
ton.
Two fat cars loaded with trolley car
rails, IS feet long, were stopped here
on bad order report, Wednesday.
The load was transferred to other Fat
cars; the rails reached nearly the whole
length Of both cars.
The Union Pacific-ROck Island double
track between Kansas City and Topeka
viii be completed by July l. Eight
separate grading outfits are now at
work along the line and the steel laying
VIII be commenced early IN May
The platform Of the material bridge
and construction de partment has been
extended about 80 feet, to accommodate
the storing of mater to supply the
different stations of the Colorado divi-
sion, as this IS the distributing point
Two painting gangs have been put to
work painting depOtS, outside and inside
baggage rooms, tanks and pump houses.
New tanks will be built at Prairie View
and Selden- Tire iron girder bridges
viii be built on TIE east end, one 90
feet, one 50 feet I'D one 40 feet, be
tween GOOdland nd Phillipsburg. On
the west end about 20 miles of ballast
Of disintegTated gra mite will be laid and
a 'sPreadeT" operated BY air will be used
on the grade.
Information has been given out at
Chicago that important improvements
VIII be made this yes T on the Rock Is
land system. New steel rails will be
laid on 400 miles of track in Illinois,
Missouri and Kansas, at a cost of about
2 million dollars. New steel bridge
work in Missouri, low a, Nebraska and
Kansas viii be done az a cost of $500, 900.
For rebuilding the roadbed to depth
Of 10 inches below the ties, S67 900 viii
be spent on $50 miles of track IN Kan
sas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Colo
radO and Oklahoma. The most avail
able material viii be used IN various
sections for reballasting- In Colorado
the most Of the new ballast will be dis
integrated granite. In other places
crushed stones, gravel or brown clay
viii be used It Is likely that the lay
ing Of heavier steel "a lis west from
GoOdland and the bal lasting of the
road beds on parts Of Il us division is
included IN these plans of improve
ment. The unusual wet weather this
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