Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-18
SOUTHERN AFTER
Is ENGINES AND
$500 NEW CARS
President Finley Announces De-
tails of Big Orders for Rails
and Equipments.

WASHINGTON, March 18.-President
Finley, of the Southern Railway Com
pany, made an announcement today of
the details of important orders for
equipment and steel rails to be given
by that Company and of other i'm
portant improvements to be undertaken
by it and by the Mobile and Ohio Rail-
oad Company.
The Southern Railway Company is in
the market for eeventy-hve new loco
motives, including passenger, freight,
and switching engines. The freight en-
gines include two of the Mallet articu-
lated compound type. This type of en-
CINE may be described as two slocomo-
tiyes combined in one. Those to be
bought by the Southern Railway Com
pany will weigh, in working order and
including tenders, 500, 500 pounds each,
and will be used for heavy freight
service.
The company is also in the market for
5000 all-steel coal cars of 100, 900 pounds
capacity, 800 all-steel coke cars of 100,-
600 pounds capacity, 100 steel UNDER
frame stock cars of go, 900 pounds ca
pacity. and 10 steel underframe combi-
nation passenger and baggage cars.
These passenger train cars are in addi-
ton to 119 passenger train cars re-
Gently ordered and which have nearly
all been delivered.
The company is now building for it
self at its Lenoir Car Works 1000 steel
underframe ventilated box cars and zoo
steel underframe stock cars. 1t is also
building at these works POS steel under
frame ventilated box cars for the
Georgia Southern & Florida Railway
Company. Upon the completion of this
work, about the LIST of August, 1t will
commence the construction for the
Southern Railway of 1000 additional
steel underframe ventilated box cars of
so, 900 pounds capacity. The Lenoir Car
Works are also making car wheels at
the rate of 100 per day, and this produc-
ton is to be steadily increased to 300
per day, the full capacity of the plant.
Orders are to be placed for 10000 tons
of steel rail, of which $4,000 0 n will
be for the Southern Railway proper.
and the remainder for the Georgia
Southern and Florida, the Virginia and
Southwestern, the Mobile and Ohio, the
Alabama Great Southern and the Gin
cinnati, New Orleans n Texas Pacific
Railways. The larger part of this rail
will be ordered from the Tennessee
Coal, Iron and Railroad Company.
The Company is aobut to begin the
erection OF a freight transfer station
at the Inman freight yards, at Atlanta,
Ca, such as 1t a at Spencer. N. g.
At present package cars containing
freight destined to points In all direc-
TONS, arriving at Atlanta, are handled
at the Madison Avenue terminals. thus
crowding these city terminals. h con-
struction of the transfer station at the
Inman yards will greatly facilitate
handling this business and will relieve
the Madison avenue terminals.
The company is also about TO begin
the erection of a large boiler shop
and O large storehouse at the Spencer,
N. c., shops, one Of the mos important
shops on the system. The new boiler
shop will be equipped with modern ma
chinery and tools.
The Mobile and Ohio Railroad Com
pany will Immediately begin the I'M
provement of about 1000 feet of dock
property owned by it between st.
Anthony and Adams streets, in Mobile.
This Improvement is made desirable by
the growing demand for additional
room for docking vessels at Mobile,
resulting from the rapid increase in
export and import business through
that port, and is in anticipation OF the
still further increase in this business
that may be expected to result from
h dredging Of the channel in Mobile
harbor to a depth of q feet, as pro-
yided for in the rivers II harbors
bill now pending in Congress.