The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-07
ROCK ISLAND CHANGE.
Engineering Department Has Been
Reorganized.

The Rock Island today announces
several changes in the engineering de-
partment which become effective Mon
day, April TO-
w. c. Taylor. who has been division
engineer of the Kansas division, has
been transferred to the Ell Paso division
at Dalharts Texas.
W. A. Van Frank who has been di-
vision engineer of the Missouri division
has been transferred from Trenton. Mis-
souri,, to Topeka to be division engineer
of the Kansas division.
c. NJ. Case, division engineer of the
FL Paso division has been transferred to
Trenton to have charge of the Missouri
division.
r. Budd. who came to the Rock Island
from the Maple Leaf last year to be di-
vision engineer of the st. Louis division,
the new line between Kansas City and
St. Louis, has resigned to return to the
Maple Leaf.
c. A. Bradley who has been assistant
to the division engineer at Trenton, has
been appointed to have charge Of the
ST. Louis division with headquarters at
Eldon, Mo.
There was talk for a time Of transfer
ring the office Of engineer of the FL
PasO division from Dalhart to Hutch
inson, Kansas, but this plan has been
abandoned.
w c. Taylor, who goes to Dalhart
from Topeka, has been located here for
about a year and a half and has han
died the affairs of his division in a most
creditable manner.
Mr.. Van Frank who comes to Topeka
was formerly an old Hooking Valley
railroad man and came to the Rock Is
land from Columbus, Ohio. He was
brought to the Rock Island by former
General Manager H. I. Miller
Mr.. Van Frank is an experienced en-
gineer and upon him will fall the re-
sponsibility of handling the improve
ment work planned upon the Kansas
division this year
AS soon as weather will permit work
will be begun to replace the present
seventy pound steel rails with eighty
pound rails, of which work there viii
be about $50 miles on the Kansas divis-
ion Rock and gumbo ballast will also
be placed under all the rails where this
work has not already been accomplish
ed The ballast will be made ten inches
deep. a portion of the line already bal
lasted has only eight inches of ballast
under the rails. This will all be filed in
to make It ten inches deep.
To accomplish this work more than a
thousand extra men Will be given en-
ployment during the summer in addition
to the regular force of section men On
the division. About this number of men
were employed last year on the Mis-
souri, division, and consequently the
force on that division will not be so
large this year.
Nearly a thousand extra men will be
at work on the FL Paso and New Mex
leo divisions and the same number will
likely be employed on the Choctaw di-
visions.
All of this work will be directed from
the Office of Principal Assistant Engi-
neer J. G. Bloom, whose headquarters
were moved from Chicago to Topeka on
April 1.
Similar work will be carried out along
the Rock Island lines in Iowa, Nebras-
ka and Colorado, but this work viii not
be directed from the headquarters at
Topeka.
It is estimated that all the work
enumerated viii cost about five million
| dollars, of which about a million and
q. quarter will be spent in Kansas.
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