The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-10
IIL.FRE|GHT LINE
| MUST soon EVOLVE
SurgestiOn TO Divide the Pas
Senger and the Freight
Business Is Made.
Is NEXT DEVELOPMENT
TO COME, SAYS OFFICIAL
Division Has Already Been Made
in City Traffic, and Will
Continue.

The time is rapidly coming in rail-
|radng when the freight and the pas
|snger traffic Will, in many cases. be
|rsctically separate businesses" said q
|rominent local traffic official yesterday.
|tRhen the country was young and rail
|-oadng was new (for there are plenty
|d men now alive who are older than the
|nilroads. remember) any and all kinds of
'ra1!c could be done together.
A with the growth or the United States,
|ksever. especially OF the great cities,
lee growth OF civilization itself. and the
'hcrease OF speed In passenger service
nth the increase OF the trainload in the
height department the freight and the
'hrther end farther apart, When a pas
|Rnger and freight train ran at prac-
|rcally the same rate OF speed the same
'iiad Of track did for both kinds OF trains,
sst today with the hundred mile-a hour
5ssenger train in sight and the two-hun-
1red ton freight car a near possibility.
be conditions arc very different.
Tho passenger and the freight train
% the same track are such common sights
hzt few men out OF the railway service
ralIze the difference between them. Speed
B the chief requirement I'm the passen
nrlce The big tralnload moving slow
b. but never stopping is the thing In the
height game.
Consider the Curves.
Today we run trains 1000 miles In
tlghteen hours. and can run them in
fKteen hours, even less than that IL the
psiness paid. Now for this speed the
lres, just TO take one instance out OF
Mems. the curves In the track must
3 at certain angle or the fast pas
ienger train will topple over TO the out
ide going around them. This is familiar
n all, of course,
But around the same curve the slow
q freight train crusnes down on the
side rail. grinding away like brake
Doe and tending to throw the freight
lain Too much to the inside. In word
hs two trains need different kinds OF
rack and as the freight trains get heav-
~ and the passenger trains set faster.
mere must come point where the same
hack for both is impossible
This is only one thing out OF dozens,
nmember There are many other mat
'sTs too technical for The public TO un-
isrstand that apply with even more force
men one attempts 10 run slow heavy
Nights and fast passengers and malls
q The same track.
Demand Is Dividing.
Some OF the big roads have faced this
Ipblem already by having four tracks.
no i0r passenger and two for freight.
bgt the time is nearly here when there
snl be demands for heavy freight service
'stwcen points, such as Gary and Pitts
;rfg, where there is comparatively little
'rnand for fast through passenger serv-
|7e just rs today We have the all-pas-
kngcr service in our city streets
.Onc OF the hardest things TO do in
Is 10 run trains OF various
IN Is worse when there are two direc-
bps 10 be considered. but the problem
hard when all the trains are going In
Fp direction but at various speeds. When
y runnlng al the same rate OF speed
y chances Of accident are greatly re-
ucsd and so is the cost ali along the
ze.. II also allows more trains TO run.
lat Is. closer together, as any ore can
asly see.
PToday freight moves in the United
htes at tho rate OF only twenty five
'les per day. practically one mile an
iur. This is disgraceful Ten miles
hour is possible today; If things were
srdS are 10 divide the freight and the
lssenger service. To double track for
arh, and TO increase the terminals.
Conditions in Cities.
Tin small town the livery business
ff carriage are run as one. In n. biz
rs they become divided and pay nc
lsniion TO each other, And the same
rns Is about due In American railroad
eg- Some day soon a railroad viii be
rtorporated 10 handle nothing but freight
:;lweeu two big cities like New York and
ncaeo. and st Louis, or Chicago and
Envey, and that ROAD VIII he able 10
nn The passenge freight roads out Of
>1sness or else force them Ia do like
ese, that is, TO divided their present
oonblnation into two entirely separate
;nslnessos, the hauling OF freight and ths
aullng OF passengers.
.'Ci course. some fast freight. like
lrIt milk, express and the mails will al
Seys go on passenger time and may be
atel as n part Of the passenger busi.
ltzs. like baggage Is today. Speed and
flight are the two real factors In the
liohiem. the kind OF traffic matters 1T
he lnII DAt. Al