The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-21
MODERN RULE BOOK
CHANGE OF l.. AND \. IN TRAIN 0R-
 DER SYSTEM.
Business on Lines is Ptcking Up, Mak- ing Talk es Ano4her Passenger
 Traia om Mobile ana ohio
 --M. and M. Dlvistem.

Either on January 1 or some day early in the new year. a new rule book will be issued by the LouiBvilIe and Nashville in which will be one or two radical changes and several of minor importance. The most import ant change will be In the system of train orders, the new system not only making 1t easier on the dispatcher, but throwing safeguard around trains on the road.
 can only be written for one train. If there are eight or ten freight trains on the road the dispatcher sending out the order is required Co write eight or ten different train orders. Now 1t sometime happens that an engineer will have his orders in regard to the meeting point of every train going in having lost that particular order. the order having to be repeated from the main office.
 Under the new rules a dispatcher can regulate the movements of the seight or ten trains all in one train lrder. and instead of an engineer or conductor having eight or ten orders in his pocket, he will have only one. that one giving him his movement over the road. By this he will know exact ly the location of every train that he Is to meet or pass. and there is no danger of losing one of his orders as there will bssoniy the one.
 Business in both the freight and passenger departments Is beginning to pick ID with all of the roads entering Montgomery. and railroad men say that it will not be very long before traiIic will be back to it's 1907 stage. 4 Mo- bile and Ohio man said Iast night that there was a great increase in the bus mess of the Montgomery division of the road. There Is not Sunday. he said, that an extra coach and extra baggage car does not have to be put on both the morning and evening trains.
 The freight trains of the Mcntgom- cry division arc doing a correspond 1 ingly larger business, and he says that he thinks 1t is only a question of a short time before two passenger trains will be put on the divisiop, giving a double daily passenger service between Montgomery and Tuscaloosa. This will be great thing for the people living along the line of the road be- tween here and Tuscaloosa. as well as for the Montgomery merchants.
 Under the present schedule there Is only one train leaving Montgomery at a. m. and one arriving at 7:oS ?. m. The proposed schedule will have q train arriving about 10 q. m. and leaving about p. m ; giving a suburban ser- vice that will be the equal of any road entering Montgomery.
 The Louisville and Nashville train No. from the North came in at f:30 last night Instead of 6:4S. as the new schedule called for. for Atlantic Coast line train due to leave under the new schedule at 7:05 getting out late wait ing on the Louisville and Nashville.
 The M and M. division of the L.. and N. dld the heaviest business yes- terdRy that it has done in nearly a yeaA. All day long freight train after freight train was sent south out of the South and North yards in North Montgomery, and, at midnight last night there was~ still hundred or so loaded cars in the yards waiting to be moved south.