The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-16
Topeka TO GET 1T
Mr.. MOhler Talks of Union
Pacific Terminals.
General Manager Says They viii
Soon Be Built.
HAVE HANDS FULL.
Now Busy With Double Track
Work.
Says the MarysYille Extension
Will Be Completed.
HAVE HANDS FULL.

A. L. Mohler, vice president and
general manager of the Union Paciic
Railroad company, today confirmed
the report recently printed in the State
Journal that the Union Pacific con
templates extensive station and term
inal improvements in Topeka.
Mr.. Mohler passed through Topeka
this morning in company with party
of Union Pacific railroad officials and
officials in general charge of all the
Hartman lines. The party included:
Julius Kruttschnitt, director of
maintenance and operation of the
Hartman lines.
J. c. Stubbs, traffic director of the
Hartman lines.
A. L. Mohler, vice president and
general manager of the Union Pacific.
J. B: Berry, chief engineer of the
Union Pacific.
W. B. Scott. assistant director of
maintenance and operation.
The party is travelling in a special
train consisting of three private cars
of the southern Pacific and Union Pa
ciflc roads.
Nearly four hours were spent in
trip from Kansas City to Topeka this
morning to allow the railroad men an
opportunity to inspect the progress of
the double track work.
Pleased With Double Track
The railroad officials are pleased
with the double track work Julius
Kruttschnitt, who is the supreme
head of the maintenance and operat-
ing department of the Hartman lines
appears immensely pleased with the
work.
when all is completed and the
curves in the old track are straight
ened, there viii not be a faster track
anywhere in this part of the country,
he said. 1T will take about 10000
ties to lay the track between these
towns. These ties were taken from
the pine forests in the south, and each
has been saturated with chloride of
zinc and viii last from II to IA years.
Ties that have not been treated cheni-
cally usually last only three or four
years.
Beneath the rails ana resting on
the ties will be steel tie plates. SKIS u
inches square, to prevent the tie from
sinking into the rOadbed and to dis
tribute the weight. This keeps the
tracks in the very best condition.
Eighty pound steel will be laid and
the road ballasted with broken stone"
A system of block signals will be in
stalled as soon as the line is open for
operation in the fall. All eastbound
traffic will be routed over one track
and all westbOund traffic over the other.
The block signal system viii be INSTALL
ed to prevent rear end collisions by
trains running too close together. The
signal system will give warning to all
trains WAGil dLOltl6I tram IS IN the DlOCk
ahead. The blocks will be but from two
to four miles long.
There will be no danger from head-on
collisions by the use of the double track
and the only danger to be on the look
out for will be to prevent rear end acci-
dents.
New Depot at Topeka.
A reporter for the State Journal asked
Mr.. Mohler this morning how soon the
contemplated station and terminal i'm
provements could be expected at To-
peIza.
I cannot make any promises as to
how soon the work viii be begun he
replied.
I'VE have our hands full with the
double track work between here and
Kansas City and the work beteen here
and Onaga. That is about all that we
can consistently handle this summer
but we win be able to get around to
the work locally here in Topeka in due
time 1t is coming. But the finishing
uD of the double track work is of far
greater Importance just now. It is alb
solutely necessary to get this work done
as soon as possible to relieve the con-
gestiOn on this piece of track. I sup
pose that the single track as it is now
between here and Kansas City is the
busiest stretch of track in the west.
When that work is off our hands we
win take up the contemplated work at
Topeka.
that we are making great many i'm
provements in the west end of our
yards here and that this work is already
about completed
The work referred to in the west
end of the yards here is the exten-
sion of the switching yards bv the
construction of eight or ten miles of
additional switch track, the construc-
ton of round-house. and the install
lation of a water treating plant, with
an elevator fVre Of cOal chute in
nection.
Build AIarysville Line
It has been reported that the
Union Pacific had decided not to con-
tinue the construction of the new
branch line between Topeka and
Marysville farther than to Onaga.
Mr. Mohler was also asked IN regard
to this matter.
You may say that the people in
that vicinity need not worry, he said
I'VE will not be able to complete the
line farther than to Onaga this year
on account of the immense amount OF
work on hand, but the line VIII even
tually be completed
Track Iaving will be begun on the
line out OF Menoken to Onaga next
week A little less than mile of
track has already been laid, and it has
been intended to begin the work of
continuing the laying OF track next
Monday morning There has been a |
delay. however, in getting some ma |
ferial and it is now said that it may
not be begun till the middle or the lat !
ter part of next week
The grading of the right of way has /
almost all been completed between |
IenoIen and Onaga. There remains |
now only a few links to be connected |
up and the completion of the big cut
in the bluffs Just south of Onaga. This !
work is under the direction of Chief
Engineer L. B. Merriam
Townsites are now being located !
along the route of the new line. It is
understood that for the present there
will be but three townsites- located.