The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-30
Freight Yard at Waycross to be
Enlarged and Improved
Furnish Work for About 1000 Men
and Will be Largest or Entire Sys-
ten of Atlantic Coast Line-Three
Hulred and Fifty Acres of Land
Owned in the Edge of Waycross by
Railroad Company.

Bids submitted for erecting the
new shops of the Atlantic Coast Line
at Waycross, Georgia, will be opened
Monday at II o'clock. Each proposal
will nave to be accompanied by a bond
of $1,000.
The new shops of the Coast Line will
be among the largest in the south and
it is estimated that they will cost In
the neighborhood of 100000. The
sCoast Line hopes to have the shops
completed and machinery installed
within eighteen months from the time
the contract is awarded.
The shops will lie erected on the main
line of tie Coast Line running from
Savannah to Montgomery. The Coast
Line OWNS 800 acres of land in the
edge f/Waycross and it is ON this that
the shops will be erected. This land
was purchased by the Plant system
and formerly contained a larger
acreage than at the present time but
part of il was cut up into town lots
and sold off. All the buildings with
the exception of the car repair shops
will be Of steel. They will extend
along tIr southern side OF the Coast
Line at isn't angles 70 he track. Be
tween the main line and shop buildings
will be the car .epair shop and storage
tracks which will hn parallel to the
Mmain line. This will be a frame struc-
-ture and will hold IS cars under roo.
: Storage yards i'll connection with the
shed will hold 2S2 cars. At one end
. OF the shop yard is to be q large coal
bin
These shops will be modern in every
: respect and built to take care Of the re-
pair work on the Second division,
which embraces something over two
thousand miles of Oad At the pres
ent time there are several small shops
located at different places and it is
the idea of the Coast Line officials to
concentrate this work. 1t is estimated
that about 1000 men will be employ
ed in the shops.
The Coast Line decided last spring
to build a locomotive and car repair
shops at Waycross but it has been
only IL short time since bids were
asked for. The right is reserved to
reject any or all bids.
Beginning at the far end of the yards
in the direction of Montgomery and
going towards the heart of the town,
the buildings will be erected in the
following order, with transfer tables
% located between several of the build
ings:
ain shop, with upholstery and var
nish shop under anne roof, 160 by 312;
transfer table, IS by 345; coach shop
with cabinet, pipe and tin shop in one
end. 100 by 312; boiler and blacksmith
shop, 20 ny 312: transfer table; erect
ing shop, 70 by 312; machine shop, 100
by 312: store house, So by 200; oil
house. so by 40; office will be iii same
building as oil house. size 30 by 80;
u hou-a on southwest end of yard
with stalls to accommodate 20 engines;
freight car repair shed will be slightly
TO the north of the other buildings and
it will accommodate under roof %
cars: alongside of building and running
parallel will be storage repair yards
to accommodate 2S2 cars.
other improvements
The building of tie new locomotive
and car repair shops a. Waycross will
mean Il great deal to the town and the
erection of the shops Will carry with
them cher improvements. The present
freight yard would, as a matter of
necessity, have to be eXteIr1ed further
in the direction of Montgomery and
removed from SO far up in the town.
As this had to be done, the Coast Line
has decided to have all the tracks
taken up and the yard enlarged and
changed so as to facilitate the hand
ling of cars. The capacity of the yard
will be increased by some four or five
hundred cara - IS now one Of the
largest freight yards the Coast Line
has on the Second division.
WaycrosS is a town of about 5000
inhabitants and the building of the
large shops will increase the popu-
iation by several thousand. The peo-
pie of Waycross are expecting great
things for their to IN in the future.
The price of real estate is said to
have gone up considerably when it
was definitely decided that the shops
would be located there.
There are no shops on the First di-
vision of the A. G. L.. that can COM
pare with the shops to be erected in
Waycross. All the work in this divi-
sion, which has less mileage than the
Second, is done at Rocky Mount, Will
mington and Florence. About $50
men are employed in the Rocky. Mount
shops, $50 in Wilmington and 400 in
Florence.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. l.. Patrick, of