Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-06
GOULD TO LAY NEW RAILS
Missouri Pacific Omaha Kansas City
Line to Be Improved.
WORK IS NOW IN PROGRESS
Fails city VIII he Made q Division
Point-BeIt Line f. Due for Inn
BADLY Needed
for Years.

The Missouri Pacific is planning to make
extensive improvements on It's line between
Omaha and Kansas City. Work Is already
under way in some places.
Falls City II 10 be made q division point
under the new arrangements and consider
able work is being done in that town,
many new tracks and some bridge work be-
ing required. The plan --contemplates a
new and heavier rail all the way from
Kansas City to Omaha.
Work requiring the expenditure Of over
800. 900 is now in progress in Omaha near
the Westside station at Forty-eishth and
Leavenworth streets. Extensive terminals
and switching yards are to be installed on
the south side Of L~eavenworth street.
After this work is finished II is the pur-
pose OF the Missouri Pacific to improve
the condition Of the Belt line, which has
been allowed to remain as it was when
installed twenty-five years ago. Some OF
the grades will be eliminated and a double
track installed part Of the way.
The Belt line Is becoming one of the big
Rest switching propositions in the west
and fou teen locomotives are now in daily
use to handle the cars to the various manu-
featuring plants and material yards around
the city. This makes quite an operating
problem to handle all these trains, as the
Belt line is also used by the Illinois Cen
trail to run It's trains TO the stock yards.
often ar many as four engines and crews
are tied up for a considerable length Of
time at the "Y' at Forty-sixth and Far
nam streets, waiting for one OF the nu-
merous trains to get through.
F.. NJ. Vance is the engineer 10 charge Of
the work on the Omaha terminals.
Iowa Central 60 Come Here.
C-,u-.Y .FfH,au L., nr,oho uf1I ba oNnnad
in a day or two by the Iowa Central rail-
road, which is operated in connection with
the Minneapolis g. St Louis. Morrell Law,
formerly traffic manager OF the New Mex
leo Central, will be the general agent here
and the offices will probably be in the
Brandeis building.
The road makes connection with the Illi-
nois Central at Storm Lake and will try
for Minneapolis business via that line. 1t
also has a st. Louis connection with the
Wabash at Abba, la.
scheme to Hasten Freight.
The Missouri Pacific has started a new
scheme for Fastening package freight to
Omaha, which is meeting with the hearty
approval Of shippers. Special cars for less
than carload lots are now started daily
from Cleveland. Indianapolis. Cincinnati,
fnlldQelpnld bdlllIlOIt, ANlhHNd anu HlHIy
other points. These cars make the trip
in three days from Indianapolis and five
days from the seashore points.
Motor Car n Sensation.
The X motor car sent east last
week to the Erie created quite a sensation
in Chicago and railroad officials from all
over the country were on hand to witness
the tests. The McKeen Motor company
had agreed to deliver the car to the Erie
in New York. The Lake Shore road Of
fered to haul the car from Chicago TO
New York free OF charge that some of it's
officials might have the pleasure of MAX
ing the trip to investigate the car. The
was highly satisfactory and ndications-roT
are that orders will pour in faster than
they can be filled by the company in
Omaha. The McKeen Motor Car company
now employs 425 men and needs more room.
No more room is available on the Union
Pacific land IN the shop yards and as a
consequence offers of new locations are
coming in.
Must Cut out the Drinks.
The state Railway commission Of Kansas
is sending out notices to all the railroads
operating in Kansas to begin at once the
enforcement of the law which prohibits
drinking intoxicating liquor on passenger
trains in Kansas.