The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-09-02

ing for the six regular stops, the run
into St Louis was made in 162 minutes,
a sustained speed of fraction faster.
than mile minute for 165 miles. The
record so far as fast running is concern
ed showing very fayorably against the
phenomenal Pennsylvania run on the
/ Fort Wayne division few days ago,
when 112 miles were made in 102 min
utes.
The New York. Ontario and Western
railroad has completed new round
house at Middletown, N. T.. which coni-
bines modern ideas that are not OUT
classed by any oths roundhouse that
covers engines run on the New Jersey
railroads The principal feature Of it Is
the heating apparatus that heats the
structure TO temperature of 65 degrees,
with temperature at zero outside.
The building is a network of pipes for
distributing heat. Last winter. before
the building was equipped with heating
apparatus, there was no way of raising
the temperature, so George w. West,
the company's superintendent of motive
| power, provided one of his locomotives
located on the outside and, with pres
sure of 100 pounds, furnished sufficient
steam to warm the interior when the
| temperature was from 5 to 20 degrees
below zero Engines coming In from the
| road completely covered with snow
could be thawed out in from one to two
! hours, whereas in the old roundhouse it
would take from Eve to six hours. In
the new roundhouse steam pipes have
there is liability of their being broken
| by old castings falling on them and of
| their being burned, in which cases es-
Gaping steam would scald the men, Mr..
West, who is an expert in mechanical
construction, and is well known as one
of the Erie railroads former master me-
| chanics, and one of the best it ever en-
ployed, is delighted with his new round
house, and by housing its engines with
in its walls will always be able to have
them in shape to haul trains, no matter
| brrxr s.ryera fho oor, t.,0 MIN {nvS 1rn,ay hn
| The roundhouse contains twenty stalls
and when the Snow is whirled about the
exterior by the frigid gales that blow
across Orange county, Mr.. Vests we'll
kept engines on the inside will be as
comfortable as jack rose blooming in a
| greenhouse in January.
The prescribed time for running a
freight train over the middle division of
the Pennsylvania Railroad which has
been twenty-five hours, has been changed
to eighteen hours. The length of this di-
vision is 132 miles, and extends from
Harrisburg to Altoona, which indicates
| that the time named is that allowed for
a round trip At fifteen miles an hour a
/ train needs nearly nine hours to run over
the division one way. At twenty miles
| an hour the running time would be six
hours, thirty-six minutes. This. under
| an eighteen hour schedule, would allow
| the crew about Eve hours for rest at the
/ far end of the division. A similar change
| has been ordered on the Pittsburg diyi-
sion, which extends from Altoona to
/ Pttsburg.
Jerry Mccarthy, a Pennsylvania engi-
neer who made the great run Of l31
miles in 1O2 minutes with the Pennsylva-
mia Special a few days ago. has been
proclaimed the greatest living engineer
by his fellow workmen.
Steel frame box cars are the type that
the Erie Railroad is now using to very
large extent and according to the men
| who ride them, they are the most service
able that have yet been adopted. These
steel frame cars will stand knocks that
would put others in the shop and they
were not affected They are particularly
| we'll adapted to use in heavy trains where
the strain is immense. In cases of
trains breaking in two and running to-
gether they stand up well and save the
chances of wrecks. The large number
now in service on the Erie were built by
the Standard Steel Car Company after
| their own plans. The steel under frames
are similar in many respects to those
used for fiat and gondola cars. About
60 or 20 per cent of the load is carried
upon the centre stills. These cars are of
standard dimension for 10000 pounds
capacity, and have. an empty weight Of
$4,000 pounds.
After years of patient study and ex-
periments, involving millions of dollars,
it is thought that at last the .'highsspeed,
long-distant electric locomotive is about