Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-01
ROADS MAKE PROGRESS
Entering Omaha Spend Vast
Gam in Nebraska during last Year.
M1oN DOLLAR HOME FOR U. P.
New Hendquarters 20 he Built mt Once
-BurIIngtOn Route Extends Lines
westward and Plans New
Freight Depot.


Most important Of the announcement of
y hq railroads for the year 1909 Is the Of
. nesai announcement Of the plans for the
4 Union FSegs headquarters building to be
, constructed Mt once at Fifteenth and
Dodge streets, for which an appropriation
OF S1.OO0,OOO has been made.
The building will be twelve stories In
height and w1l accommodate the entire
official family in Omaha, which Is now
scattered about in various buildings In
the downtown section OF the city. The
skyscraper will be OF all steel oonstruc-
ton with brick and tile walls.
Expenditures made by the Union Pacific
during the fiscal year, ending June 30
reach enormous totals. on second track
1y6rk alone the amount of money expended
was t1,S5O, 1000. In the new railroad shops
in Omaha $4,000 was expended and IN
making changes in the lines west there
was an outlay of $4,000 In renewing
rails s1s7, 900 was spent during the year.
Nearly 100 miles OF new track, exclusive
~ second tracks and sidings, WAS laid
during the year by this company, entail
ing a total expense of S2,2O5 900 for new
lines. OF this amount of trackage eight
miior are in Nebraska from Kelly to
N6fGbrt; thirty-three miles from Onaga
10 4 arysvilIe, Kans.; twenty-six miles
from Greeley to Briggsdale, Colo; eighteen
noaes from Send Creek to ST. Vrains, Colo
and thirteen miles from Cloverly to Hun
!, gerford, Colo.
Twentv-three miles of new line is now
under course of construction in Colorado.
one Of the greatest improvements IN
Omaha planned by tine Union Pacific Is
the enlargement of Union station, which
will mean an expenditure of SOO'OOO- The
Hartman lines are now only awaiting
favorable answers from the seven other
roads using the station to begin opera
tionS.
Washington Route Makes E~xtenstOn
Notable improvements in the lines oil
the Burlington Route have taken place
during the year. AS for extension there
ia now under course Of construction ar
important line through central Wyomint
insended to connect Nebraska by a shorter
rohte with the Big Horn basin. Work Il
now going on for fifty miles from Kirby
Wyo, through Thermopolis east to thu
Powder river. This extension will be com
pleted before the dawn OF 1911.
The Burlington has increased its powe
\ by twenty-five engines, and its equipmen
= by 1000 freight cars and fifty passenge
coaches. Besides this equipment there vii
he delivered within sixty days to the line
: west of the Missouri river fifteen Male
compound engines for freight service an
fifty more locomotives of the Pacific typ
for freight and heavy passenger trains.
During the year there was put into serv
ice another set of fast through trains be
tween Omaha and Seattle in connectio
with the Great. Northern line from Billing
through to- Judith Basin. This service ha
brought that fast-developing country !
close connection with Omaha
interests. New and additional trains hay
also been put on between Omaha, Chicas
and Denver. Another arrangement CAV
Omaha a night-after-theater train throug
the heart Of Nebraska. Altogether II
passenger changes means an addition
$1,000 miles Of transportation a month.
over t4,OOO, 900 has been spent by the Blu
IinRton in the last twelve months in be
tering the roadbed by heavy ballastin
In the vicinity OF Lincoln yard extensiC
work and the Milford cutoff, now nearii
= completion, means an expenditure
100000. improvements in the shops
Havelock means an outlay OF $4,000,
New Washington Freight Depot.
Plans for an immense freight depot al
additional freight facilities in Omaha a
nearing completion which will entail
expense of $4,000. The new freight hea
quarters will be located at Eighth a
Jones streets.
ITO help in rounding out the proportio
and Importance of the Burlington, a larg'
controlling interest IN the Colorado
Southern railroad was bought during I
year, which comprises about LOO miles
aroad with main lines between Denver a
The Gulf Of Mexico and points in cent
wyoming,
The Illinois Central has not extended
b lines west OF the river, although oN
Ss.OOONN has been spent IN improvement
An Lxtenslon of the lines south from Ja'
u son.F MSS, to Birmingham, Ala, 200 mi
y IN Length, has been completed during
Near. "A large addition has been built
the Illinois Central freight depot in oma
Nat Eleventh and Chicago streets.
Nearly all the roads entering Oms
have added to their equipment in one "
or another. The Rock Island lines
now running new s~ll-steel passenger q
baggage cars on their through trains g
have added to the comforts OF their p
sengers in many Ways. All the railro'
have slashed their running time betw'
Omaha and Chicago.
The Union Pacific will begin rum
through trains to Seattle early in Janua
which will be an entirely new departu
improvements have been made in
Huntington stations at Omaha and at 1
coin BY the installation. OF the gate S
tenn Of handling passengers.
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