Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-04-28
NEw o. 5. 1. EQuIpMENr
Recent Order For Cars Thought To
BE the largest Ever Sent
From the West.

list of new material to its service. /
The News says:
The main lines of the Hartman
system west of the Rocky Mountain
divide are to be equipped up to the
very highest standard in order to
prepare them for the coming COM
petition offered by the Hill invaders,
for with the opening of the present
month, AZ engines, 81 passenger cars
and 1473 freight and maintenance
cars, or 1907 pieces of equipment, to
cost thousands of dollars, have been
ordered for the use of the Oregon
Short Line alone and will be shipped
direct to Pocatello and Salt Lake,
where they will be distributed along
the line for division points.
The list of motive power equipment
and cars was prepared by James F.
Dunn, the mechanical superintendent,
and later submitted to Vice President
Bancroft. Since then the latter has
had under consideration the order
ing of the entire list and placed it
only recently. This order is believed
by local railroad men to be one of
the largest that has gone from the
west to eastern manufacturers. 1t
does not include AZ passenger cars
previously ordered and just delivered,
or the smaller order of cars placed
some time age.
The order which will be delivered
in this state at Pocatello and Salt
Lake is listed as follows:
Thirty consolidated locomotives.
Ten Pacific type passenger locomo-
tiyes.
Two switching locomotives.
Fifty-six passenger coaches.
Ten chair chairs.
Five baggage cars.
Five 70-foot combination baggage
and mail cars.
Six mining cars.
This order covers the passenger
equipment. All of the cars will be
of steel construction and of the very
latest type, designed for speed, safety
and comfort They are demanded by
the additional trains being operated
and the new branches of the Short
Lien which are being built.
Wishing to keep abreast of the
rapid development in the irrigated
sections and to be able to handle the
increased traffic coming from these
the freight department of the Short
Line is also to share in the new order.
It's list Includes
Five hundred box cars.
Three hundred steel hopper-bottom
gondola cars.
One hundred steel hopper-bottom
cars
Twenty caboose cars.
These car sare known to be the
very best money can buy, built for
hard service and badly neeedd to
take care Of the work along the road
in the southern part of this state
The hopper-bottom cars are to be
used in the freight and construction
work.
Not forgetfuI Of the needs Of the
construction department. the Oregon
Short Line has also placed an order
for the delivery of necessary equip
system, which in part is as follows:
One hundred and fifty ballast cars
One Lidgerwood ballast unloader
Two 12O-ton wrecking cranes.
The entrenching policy of the
Hartman system in the west is taken
by local railroad men to indicate
that every possible effort will be
made to place the Oregon Short
Line and subsidiary lines in the very
best possible condition in order tc
meet all competition along this di
vision. The large order. they claim
means the ultimate construction and
equipment of the proposed parable
line of this road from Buhl across
the Bruneau-Twin Falls project t.
Nyssa on the south side of the Snak,
river, the construction of the branch
line from Vale to Brogan, extension,
proposed on the Minidoka & South
western, and probably the building
of the parallel central Idaho line from
point west Of Pocatello to Rich
feel dacross the Camas Prairie int,
Boise and on to Ontario
Upon the arrival of the Gilmor,
& Pittsburg into the southern Idah'
territory, the Short Line, it i
claimed, be in a position to NEE
the most strenuous competition an,
can handle the ever-increasing TRAIN
so that there viii be little fear o
the new road doing a great deal o
damage. It is freely admitted tina
the new equipment when installe