The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-25
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
LETS BIG CONTRACT
Over Seven Million Dollars
Will Be Expended
CAR ORDER IS HEAVY
seventy-five Locomotives and Nearly
Four Thousand Cars VIII Be
Built as Fast as the Orders
Can BE Executed
CAR ORDER IS HEAVY

Atlanta, May 24-(Special. )-Contracts
| for locomotives. rolling stock. steel rails
and fittings. involving total expendi-
ture of sT,29o.Ooo, have been let within
the past few weeks by the Southern Rail-
way company, according to announce
ment made today, thus carrying out the
statements as to orders to be given, con-
tanned in President Finley's announce
ment of March II.
Seventy-five locomotives, $500 all steel
Seton coal and coke cars, and 10 COM
bined passenger-baggage cars are to be
added to the motive power and rolling
stock equipment of the Southern as the
result of these contracts. In addition to
this contracts have been let for 1900
tons of s5-pound steel rail and for 10000
improved joints for use with this rail.
The steel rail and fittings. which will
represent an outlay on the part of the
company of $1,S0o,000, will be used in I'M
proving 1t lines by replacing lighter rail,
which will In turn be relaid in place of
still lighter rail on the subsidiary lines,
and in the prosecution of the company S
plans for double tracking its more I'M
portant lines. The completion of work
on 60 miles of double track under con-
struction will give 244 miles of double
track between Washington and Atlanta,
while there are 90 miles of double track
now in use on other lines of the system.
Thirty thousand tons of this rail- will be
furnished by the Tennessee Coal, Iron
and Railroad company from its Birming-
Railway company's policy of patronizing
southern industries wherever possible.
Ten thousand tons will be furnished by
the Maryland Steel company and 5000 tons
by the Cambria Steel company.
The entire locomotive order went to
the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Phil
adeiphia and this investment of 81, 900
on the part of the Southern railway will
add to its motive power IS consolidation
freight locomotives. % Pacific type pas
senger locomotives. 10 switching locomo-
tives and two MaIlet freight locomotives.
which last mentioned locomotives will be
the largest and most powerful in use in
the south, to be delivered during Sep
tember or October. 1910.
OF the 5000 all-steel 5O-ton coal and
coke cars, for which the Southern rail-
way will spend s3,90o,000. 1000 Will be furn-
ished by the Western Steel Car and
Foundry company Of Hedgewisch, Ill.
1l20 by the Cambria Steel company of
Johnston, Pa, and 800 by the Standard
Steel Car company of Butler and New
castle. Pa. 1t is expected that these
cars will be in service by July, 1910 The
10 combined passenger-baggage cars are
to be built by the HickS Locomotive and
Car Works of Chicago at a cost of SO. 00C
and will be delivered In June, 1870
In addition the company is building
for itself at its Lenoir car works 100
steel, underframe, ventilated box cars
and 200 steel underframe stock cars and
for the Georgia Southern and Florida
railway 2o5 steel underframe ventilated
box cars. Upon the completion Of this
work about August ! construction will
be begun of 1000 additional steel under
frame ventilated box cars of $4,000 pounds
capa city for the Southern railway.
These large expenditures on the part
of the Southern Railway company mear
greatly increased facilities for handling
the growing traffic throughout the south
ern states and better service for every
point on the various lines of the COM
pany.