The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-08
TRAFFIC Is contested
ROLLING STOCK NOT EQUAL TO DE-
MAND ON IT,
I,ou,.xsIle ana Nashville n Pushing Inn
urovemeuta m ms to Handle its
Largely Increasing
RyaSueaa.

while the South and North yards in
North Montgomery have bee INTO GER
tain extent freed from the blockade OF
the past few weeks the congested con-
dition along the road continues. The
supply of power and rolling stock IS
no tequal to the unprecedented de-
mand Of freight and consequently near
" every siding between here and Biz
niinghann ID filled with loaded freight
cars which for the lack of engines can
not be moved. g
The Louisville ana Nashville Is doing
a tremendous business. passenger as
we'll as freight. and an enormous
amount of work is being done on the
road. The Bakers Hill tunnel. possibly
one of the longest in the South. is now
being regularly used. and vast saw
ing is made both In passenger and
freight traffic.
Speaking OF the improvements on the
Louisville and Nashville. Nashville
paper says:
''While almost every railroad in the
South and Southeast is making extern
siye improvements, building branch
lines and extensions in many ways.
there is no railroad that Is doing more
general improving this year than the
Louisville and Nashville. 1t is build
ing but few extensions, but is probably
doing more rebuilding and betterment
WOTk any OthCh AVaA oOuhh " saS
Ohio River.
"To begin at Nashviiie, the company
has Just completed one OF the longest
tunnels in the South through Bakers
Hill. seventeen miles from here, and is
now engaged in practically rebuilding
all of the Henderson division from
Nashville to Henderson, KY In this
work the company is changing the
alignment in a number OF places. build
ing new bridges. erecting new depots
and freight houses. putting in new sid
ings and repairing the road generally.
new cut-off of seven miles has just
been completed from Madison to Good
lettsville and today trains will begin
running over the new track and
through the tunnel
"Over in East Tennessee and in.
North Georgia the company has had
something like 1000 men engaged for
sorne time in rebuilding the old Allan
ia, Knoxville and Northern Road, re-
Gently acquired by til" L. & N, In
many places along this line the new
road runs five or six miles from the old
right of way ana all but about twenty
Ave rr''es of the line will be new track
entirely.
"A new line has just been completed
from Birmingham to Atlanta, most of
which Is entirely new work and all the
old lines used have been rebuilt.
Through service was established on
this line only about a month ago. In
the vicinity Of Gadsden, Ala, almost
all the old property has been rebuilt.
ION the Nashville division ii is OIL
cially stated the company needs 1900
men to carry out its plans for better
ments and on every division of the sys-
tenn there is a shortage of labor of
from 200 TO 1000 men. only recently
the company placed all the available
laborers in this section on the Hem
,ierson division In order to complete
that work as early as possible. This,
it is said was done so as to get men
on the double track work in prospect
from Edgefield Junction to Gallatin.
This work completed the crews will go
on over the old Chesapeake and Nash
VILE line. which is to extend to Cor
bin, Ky, and probably to Glasgow.
giving the company either two lines
to Louisville or Cincinnati ana direct
connecting line with the extension into
Virginia, where it will connect with the
Norfolk and Western TO the East. Not
only this line. but number of extern
sIons are proposed in the coal regions
of Kentucky.
besides the building and rebuilding
of roads and bridges, the company is
building about the largest shops in the
south at Louisville, where practically
all the locomotives and passenger
equipment used Dy the company VIII De
manufactured. At Decatur, Ala, the
already large shops are constantly be-
ing enlarged. At these shops the COM
pany is building all the freight cars
used on the system, and is turning
them out at the rate OF seven COM
pleted cars per day. Every particle OF
material used in the manufacture of
freight cars In these shops is made
there, except the wheels. which are
made in Birmingham.
1.-THE Louisville and Nashville Is q
busy railroad, and has almost as many
men employed in building and repair
| ing in the South as 1t has in the oper-
, ating department of the whole system
| n is improving its terminals in all the
| larger cities. building depots and ware
| houses all along the line. and in fact
| Is doing more work than 1t has done
| for the past ten years combined"
| Big HOmeaeexers Business.
| The big homeseekers rueh which wa!
| stopped during the guarantees has op
| ened up again. Yesterday being the FRS
| tuesday In November the homeseelIeri
/ tickets were on ssle. Sontheasterl