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lock, in addition to extensions at ALI
qulppa and elsewhere. These will cost
several millions. The Pennsylvania
Ines have begun building larger shop
and roundhouse plant at Lawrence
Junction than is now in use. The Bal
timore & ohio has plans under consid.
Grafton for new freight houses in Pitts
burg, Allegheny and Youngstown, 1t
is expected that work will be resumed
on the Justus cutoff of the Wabash
in Ohio before long, while It is known
the Wheeling niontown'ca Cumberland
line will be started in a short time.
The Pennsylvania railroad has just
awarded contract for about $780,
900 worth Of trek elevation work for
the elimination of 81 grade crossings
in the northeast part Of Philadelphia,
Of which total cost the city will pay
100000. The Pennsylvania is also
considering the construction Of a new
freight yard to cost $1,5o0,0OO at VIII
Transport.
The New York Central isproceeding
with its franklin Clearfield extension,
begun somewhere over year ago. The
same company is reported to have
awarded to the Eyr-shoemaker corpor-
alton of Philadelphia a contract for
eliminating all grade crossings in Buf-
falo at a cost of 100000. The Wa
bash has awarded a contrct for
roundhouse and machine shop at Deca-
tur, ILL.,, and another contract for a
roundhouse at Montpelier, Ind. The
Kanawha Bridge and Terminal Com.
pany has contracted with the Amerl-
can Bridge Company for bridge
across the Kanawha river at Charles.
ton, W. Va
In the west the reaching into new
fields also indicates that more than
mere maintenance is being looked at.
President Earling, Of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul, is authority for the
statement that that roads Pacific ex
tension will be pushed to completion
as fast as men and machinery can ac-
complish the task. Several thousand
additional men will be put to work.
The line to Butte is to be redy next
May, but Mr.. Earring does not say
when work will begin on the Seattle
division. The Burlington Is reported
to havesaIed plans for its proposed
extension in Wyoming, the 200 mile
route being from Guernsey northwest
along the North Platte river to Dou-
glas, thence west to the shoshone In
dian reservation.
The Western Pacific will soon begin
work on about rs bridges for its Salt
Lake City.San Francisco line, for
which about 10000 tons Of steel will
be required The Union Pacific has
begun building a II mile line known
as the Athel Hill cutoff, by which 10
miles from the present main line route
will be saved. This new line starts
near Carr Co. between Denver and
Cheyenne, and will connect with the
main line again about 10 miles west
of Cheyenne. The Frisco will extend
its Fort Worth & Rio Grande line from
Brady, Tex southwest to San Anton
10, about $50 miles, and will also bald
a branch 60 miles long from Brady to
San Angelo. The Frisco has also be.
gun work on three large steel viaducts
on its line between Fort Smith, Ark,
and Fayetteville. The Salt Lake route
has ordered steel for ~ bridges to be
used in the Meadow valley where the
heaVy WASH occurred a lew moutns
ago..
The vlrglnIan railway, which the
Standard OIL interests are building
from. Norfolk, Va, to the coal fields
of West Virginia, with proposed ex.
tension to Lake Erie, Is being rushed.
Trains are now operating into Nor
folk. Two sections of the line have
been finished recently, one from Jar,
RAFT, Va, west to Victoria 46 miles,
and the other from Mullens, w. va,
south TO Matoal1a 81 miles Another
new southern ron is 10 be built Bids
.ars asEsditS Ibe submitte Ssiors SER
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