The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-28
HUGE CONTRACTS
!. LET BY SOUTHERN
Locomotives, Steel Rails and Fit
tings Will Necessitate Ex-
penditure of 81, 100000.
TO IMPROVE ALL LINES
Double Track to Be Laid Between
Atlanta, Ga. and Washing
ton, d. c.

Especial to The Richmond Virginian.)
ATLANTA, GA, May 2s.--Con-
tracts for locomotives. rolling stock.
steel rails and fittings. involving =
total expenditure of 37,2so,0oo. have
been let within the past few days
by the Southern Railway Company.
according to announcement made to-
day. thus carrying out the statements
ais to orders to be given. contained IL
President Finley's announcement Of
March II.
seventy-five locomotives, s.e2o ali
steel B0-ton coal and coke cars. and
ten combined passenger baSgaxe cars
are to be added to the motive power
and rolling stock equipment OF the
Southern as the result OF these con-
tracts. In addition TO this. contracts
have been. let for forty-ssx Thousand
tons Of s0-pound steel rail- and fof
19o. 900 improved joints for use with
this rail,
The steel rail- and fittings, which
will represent an outlay on the part
of the company Of 3l,s0o.o00, will be
used in improving its lines BY repiac.
ing lighter rail. which will In turn be
relaid in place OF still lighter rail or
the subsidiary lines, and in the prose
cution of the company's plans for dou-
BILE tracking It's more important lines
The completion Of work on sixty milea
Of doubts track under construction
will give 244 miles OF double track
between Washington and Atlanta
while there are IS miles Of double
track now In use on other lines OF
the system. Thirty thousand tons Of
this rail will be furnished by the Ten
nessee Coal. Iron and Railroad Com
pany from its Birmingham plant. In
tine with the Southern Railway Com.
pany's policy OF patronising Southern
industries wherever possible. Ter
thousand tons will be furnished by
the Maryland Steel Company. and SIR
thousand tons by the Cambria Steel
Company.
$1,000, 600 for Locomotives.
Tho entire locomtive order went to
the Baldwin Locomotive Works {
Philadelphia. and this investment OF
$1.sOo.00o on the part of the South
ern Railway will add to tn motive
power SO consolidation freight loco
motives. rs Pacific type passenger To-
comotives. 10 switching locomotives
and Mallet freight locomtives
which has mentioned locomotive will
be the largest and most powerful In
use in the South. to be delivered dur.
ing September or October. 1919.
On the a.620 all steel 50-ton Goa
and coke cars for which the South.
ern viii spend $500. 900, two thous.
and with be furnished by the westerr
6tael Car and Foundry Company, oil
Hedgewisch, ILL.,, 1920 by the Cambris
Steel Company. Of Johnstown. Pa.
and 500 BY the Standard Steel Car Co.
Of Butler and Newcastle, Pa. II il
expected that these cars will be In
service by July. 1910. The ten com.
bined passenger-baggage cars are ia
be built by the Hicks Locomotive and
Car Works. Of Chicago, at q cost OF
$4,000. and will be delivered in June
1910.
In addition the company IL build
ing for itself at its Lenoir Car Works
1000 steel underframe ventilated boz
cars and 200 steel underframe stock
cars. and FOR the Georgia Southern
and Florida Railway 3eS steel under.
frame ventilated box cars Upon the
completion OF this work about Au.
gust ! construction with be begun Of
J. 600 additional steel underframe ven.
tfiated box cars Of $4,000 pounds ca.
pacity for the Southern Railway
These large expenditures on the
paef OF the Southern Railway Com,
pany mean greatly increased facilitie,
for handling the growing traffis
throughout the Southern States and
better service for every point on tho
various lines OF the company.