The Delta independent., 1906-07-20
NOTES 0FTHE RAIL WAYS
Canadian Pacific's Ticket For
Trip Around the World.
test OF GASOLINE ELECTRIC OAR

A new ticket In the form Of q little
yellow card about as big as an annual
pass is issued by the Canadian Pacific
railway and entities the holder to 70
round the world upon the company .
rail and steamship lines. says the Chi
cago Tribune. The ticket reads from
Montreal. Canada. to Montreal, Can.
ada" and, except for the little card
local tickets or the usual form of COM
mutation ticket issued by the railroads,
1t Is the smallest ticket ever issued,
To carry the ordinary ticket sold by
the railroads for trip across the Unit.
ed States from coast to coast the trav,
eler needs a special satchel. The Ca
madam Pacific is the only railroad
which has Its rails stretching from
ocean to ocean with Its own steamship
lines circling the remaining part OF the
globe. The first Of these new tickets
was issued to Fred shaughnessy, sou
Of Sir Thomas G. Shaughnessy, pres
ldent of the road.
| The route taken by the bearer of
one Of these tickets Is from Montreal
to ST. Johns, n. B.. via the Canadian
Pacific railway. thence to Liverpool,
England, by the Canadian Pacific-At-
lantic steamship line. From Liverpool
the traveller goes on board the Mont
eagle. a Canadian Pacific boat, which
sails for Hongkong by way Of the Cape
Of Good Hope, stopping at Cape Town
and Singapore. From Hongkong the
bearer Of the ticket takes the Empress
line steamers for Vancouver. stopping
at Yokohama. and from Vancouver
back to Montreal over the lines Of the
railway company.
| The new gasoline electric car for
railroads was tested recently at Sche-
aectady, n. T., before prominent on
,ers Of the Delaware and Hudson and
New York Central railroad companies
md the General Electric and American
locomotive companies. says the New
York Times.
The car ran to Saratoga and back to
schenectady with the greatest ease,
making a maximum speed Of about
fifty miles an hour with little noise.
The railroad engineers on board said
hat steam power for short lines will
,oon be thing Of the past.
| In mechanism the new car 10 like an
automobile and trolley car combined.
The propelling force comes primarily
rom a gasoline engine. but electricity
actually turns the wheels. Underneath
he cars are motors like those ON sub
way cars. supplied with current from
he gasoline engine. Outside the car
ooks like the regular passenger coach
with baggage apartment. There Ii q
complete air brake system. Tho car IL
heated by hot water, the piping for
which forms part Of the system for
!adiating heat from the water used In
cooling the gas engine cylinders. In
addition to the engine and baggage
rooms there are smoking. toilet and
regular passenger compartments. The
:ar is lighted by electricity. There are
seats for forty passengers.
The famous horseshoe curve on the
Pennsylvania Is to be eliminated, says
l Pittsburg special to the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch. Two methods are pro-
posed, and four sets Of plans have
been prepared. Two plans are for tun-
1els through the Allegheny mountains.
,ne nine miles and the other eleven
miles long. Other plans are new routes
ACROSS the mountains, one 90 and the
,ther 105 miles long. The nine mile
tunnel will probably be adopted. The
tunnel would enter the mountain at or
aear Kittanning Point and emerge be-
tween Cresson and Lilly. It will ac-
,ommodate four tracks and will be
ventilated with shafts reaching the
rests of the mountains. All opera
lions through 1t will be by electric
power. The cost of the tunnel and
making connections with the main line
. estimated at more than 100000
When the Great Northern railroad
put train auditors on their trains to
collect the tickets and look after the
Welfare Of the passengers It was on the
:heory that the conductor was SO busy
ooking after the operation Of his train
that he could not spend time looking aft
er the comfort Of his passengers, says
the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The railroad
,mcials had all the passengers in mind,
Toung and old, male and female, but
he results were different, and the au-
iitors picked out attractive young la
lies as the objects for their especial
:are. The result Of this practice is Z
,ew rule which has recently been is
Iued by the passenger department Of
he Great Northern, which says, Train
auditors under no conditions will be al
owed TO occupy seats with lady pas
sengers."
A committee composed Of three mem.
bers Of the American Society Of Me-
!hanical Engineers and three from the
American Railway Master Mechanics
association recently made public results