The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-08

The annual report of the Great North
ctn Railroad Company shows an increase
of nearly S7,000.000 in gross earnings, the
total being $46,259, $50.
Executive and managing officers of the
large railway systems are encouraging a
new railroad correspondence school that
has just been established, as they believe
that it will result in a more plentiful
supply of good railroad labor.
During the last summer the Grand
Trunk railway carried 10000 passengers
on special trains. This is the largest
business ever handled in any three
months. and equals the record made dur.
ing the worlds fair in Chicago.
The annual report of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company ahows gross
earnings of $50, sos, 719, an increase Of
nearly $10,0O0,000 over the preceding
year. The net earnings were 500, 1885,
100. All records were broken in the
carriage of freight, which totaled $685.
102 tons.
The decrease of S7S5, 7S4 in passenger
earnings during the last fiscal year OF
the Illinois Central railroad is shown
by the annual report just issued, but
from other sources earnings increase was
SOL $3.50, 405, or total increase of 81.
127 800. The expenses We're only $34,
302,477 in the last thirteen years. Ten
million dollars has been used in substi.
tuting new engines and cars for old ones
The first heavy train run over the New
York Central by electricity drawn by one
of the new 1O0-ton electric locomotives
rolled into the Grand Central station af-
ter making a seven-mile trip from High
Bridge on the same schedule as the regu-
lar slum train. President Wilgus and a
party of officials were on board The
train consisted of eight Pullman cars. The
locomotive is almost noiseless, due to the
fact that the motors are attached directly
to the shaft. The maximum speed can be
attained in one-third the distance required
by a steam locomotive.
In his annual report President Delanc
of the Wabash says that competition
among railroads in the future will be in
supplying facilities for passenger and
freight traffic rather than competition
in rates. This is true, particularly in
view of the rate law, which will result in
fixed, stable and universal rates. The
gross earnings for the year were $50.
O15.37S, which is an increase of S31S..
37S. Notwithstanding the falling off OF
$294,170 in passenger earnings. Repair
ing expenses were $1S,01S,SSI, or de-
crease of $2,425,557. The surplus fol-
the year was $509,332.
Seven years ago the present terminal
of the New York Central and the New
Haven systems at Forty street.
New York, was completed at a cost OF
S2.5OO,0O0. 1t was regarded as a mag.
nificent monument to the commercial
greatness of the metropolis, adequate for
It's needs for many decades. Engineers
ranked it among the best equipped rail-
road stations of the world. And yet. after
only seven years use. this great structure
must be torn down to make way for one
of far vaster proportions. Never in the
history of the city has its growth made
necessary the sacrifice of a building sc
large or so costly.
T.. II. Hartman has been so favorably
impressed with the recent experiments
with the SaSOiiue motoi tdi cu ouiou
Pacific lines that he has ordered the cree
ton pf shops exclusively for their con-
struction. These cars are now in active
use on Union Pacific tracks, several of
them having been turned out by the regu-
lar Omaha shops in the last few months.
They are made entirely of steel and are
% feet long, being similar in shape to
an inverted racing yacht, the roof round
ed off and the front end tapering off to a
sharp point. Thus wind resistance is
reduced to minimum. The car is driven
by 100 horsepower. six-cylinder gaso-
line engine, with primary battery to
start on and a magnetic for regular run
ming.
The seventeenth annual report of the
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Com
pany has just been issued. The gross
earnings of the road for the year were
SIT ,304, 500, an increase of 1861, 731 over
the previous year. The operating expenses
were $1O629, $50, showing an increase of
$29S, 3O7. The net earnings were $6,614,-
700, decrease of $30,5I6.
The Erie Railroad Company has an
nounced that an order has been placed
for three of the heaviest and most pow.
erful freight locomotives ever designed.
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