The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-18
Mork to Reduce Grade.

i has developed into more gigantic un- l dertaxing than was at first thought 1 The bottom of that hill begins at Cal-
 houn. a station twenty-seven miles | south of Montgomery. and the highest 1 point is reached just where foot ! bridge spans the railroad track at Fort Deposit thirty-two miles south of l Montgomery. This point, however, is l not the end of the grade by any means, for while the climb is not so heavy as Il 1t Is for the five miles between Cal 1 houn and Fort Deposit, there is a Il steady pull up hill all the way from l Fort Deposit to Greenville, twelve I miles distant. This makes a steady \ grade, a good part of 1t several feet to the mile, all the way from Calhoun
 to Greenville, a distance of seventeen miles.
 Il Now, to cut through a hill for sev- II enteen miles in the endeavor to make a
 uniform grade as near the level of the track in the low ground as possible is
 6 stupendous undertaken. The vital importance of it, however, is realized
 by the Louisville and Nashville people,
 and 1t may be commenced at an early Il date.
 Numbers of surAeys have been made, | the last one withinAthe last few weeks,
 and three different plans are held at
 the general office of the Louisville and Il Nashville in Louisville. One of these Il plans calls for the rebuilding of the Il track in a zig-zag manner through the Il hills of Butler County, while another
 plan calls for the building of twelve I mile cut which In places would Do be- | tween 40 and 50 feet in depth.
 II The third plan and the one that calls | for the greatest outlay of money is to build a tunnel through the deepest part I of the hill between Calhoun and Fort | Actk 1.r 1 Fort Deposit to Greenville, to be built | through cuts deep enough to make the | grade uniform with the track through
 the tunnel.
 The task, of tunnelling through the 1 Butler County hills near Fort Deposit l will be more than ordinarily difficult I from the nature of the soil at this I point The famous Chunnenuggee | Ridge runs for some distance right | through the section in which the I tracks of the Louisville and Nashville | approach Fort Deposit. This forn1a- I tien of earth has proved a nightmare Il to railroad men for years. IL starts l at some point in Russell County, and | runs through the county of Bullock \ Butler and southwest Montgomery l County. Wherever a railroad has the misfortune to come into contact with any l part of this ridge, there is trouble for \ the railroad. The soil is of that pecu- I liarly aggravating order known to rail- | road men as creeping earth" Railr l road men have other more forctble l names for it, but most of the terms would be barred from Uncle Sam's mails. In extremely wet seasons when | this earth begins to creep" it is next | to impossible to stop the relentless march of tng7nud and slush. At such times the entire road-bed has been un- f dermined, cross-ties, ballast and all, l sinking, while the very rails them selves are moved and sometimes the lentire rlght-of-way is changed. Time | after tfrne this has occurred and car- l load after carload of heavy stone. cross
 ties and great pieces of timber, bricks, I bags of sand and everything in the | world employed in cases of this. kind l have been dumped into these bottoms | less pits, only to be swallowed up in 1 the bowels of the earth. All this mass
 of material would disappear as com | pIeteiy as # it had never been put there while, not the slightest effect l could be seen in retarding the slide. The Atlantic Coast Line had trouble with this ridge, striking it on the ifsuverne division about six miles south | of Sprague Junction, twenty-five mics Isouthwest of Montgomery. The Cen 1 tral of Georgia ran into 1t near Union I Springs and the Louisville and Nash Il vile had a battle with 1t near Fort Deposit After years of struggle with
 the uneasy soil and the . spending ,lagSr1s 1s mentioned have in the past year or SD been gotten under control. At every : wet spell, however, the roadway de"
 partments of the Louisville and Nash ] vile, Central and Atlantic Coast Line , begin to tremble lest they will have all of the years of trouble to go through with again.
 } It may be seen, therefore, the difii- l culties that the Louisville and Nash } vile will encounter when 1t begins
 tunneIling the Fort Deposit hill It l has not been decided just which of the 7 three plans will be adopted but It ? seems certain that within the near 2 future work will begin on the Fort De- . posit hill.
 Master Mechanic Frank Walsh of
 the Western Railway shops has re- ? turned to Montgomery after attending
 meeting of the Southwestern Rail-
 way Club in Atlanta at which he wat
 accorded the honor of being elected President.
 The ofhcers in full are. President
 F O. Walsh, of Montgomery, Master . Mechanic of the Atlanta and Wes Point Railroad: First Vice President
 Otto Best. of Nashville, Superintendent of Ar Brakes of the Nashville, Chat fanoora and St. Louis Railroad Sec
 ond Vice.Pfesident, c. A. Goodyear 0 , Macon, Master Car Builder of thu Georgia, Southern and Florida Rail road; Secretary, W A. Love Of At lanta, of the Southern Iron and In Vestment Company, and 4. J. Merrill
 Treasurer, also of the Southern Irol , land Investment Company.
 , The most important business of th' day was a paper by W. D. Symons O Chicago, formerly of the Plant system on 'aThe Construction of Steel Trucks. A Committee consisting of c. , Bokers, of the Georgia Car Company e. A. Goodyear of the Georgia, south . ern and Ftorida, and w. J. Robider | If tbe Central of Georgia, made report on car doors and roofs whiol
 was quite interesting. There were number of other interesting paper and addresses
 The regular winter meeting of tn
 club will be held in January.
 pothan Train Made Daily.
 Yesterday morning an order was IS sued from the office of Superintendent
 Bennett of the Atlantic coast Line b!
 which trains No A and No 45, VII
 be made daily.
 The trains mentioned are the accom-
 poodatIons to and from DOthan, reach
 irg Montgomery at 10:8O a. m. anC
 leaving at D. m. every day excep
 Sunday. By the terms of-the ordel Issued yesterday morning, however, th'
 trains will run Sunday as well as du
 ring the week. The order takes CT feet at midnight tonight and the frs
 train will come into Montgomery neX
 Sunday morninA,
 one reason for the putting on O
 these trains was that train No. 4