The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-03-11
BIC RAIL ORDER
IS PLACED BY
THE SOUTHERN
EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENT AEE
PLANNED BY ROAD FOR The
PRESENT YEAR.
Work of improving and Double Track
ing tire Main Line from Washington
to Atlanta VIII Take Un Greater
Part of 10000 Tons of steel. y

Atlanta, Ga March 10.-Greatly in
creased activity in the work of i'm
proving and double tracking the main
lire Of the Southern railway from
Washington tc Atlanta Is presaged in
the announcement by the company
that a contract has just been closed
with the Tennessee Coal and Iron
Company for thirty thousand tons of
IS pound steel TO be delivered from
IFS Birmingham plant fetween June
/ and December L. 1910 at the rate of
5000 tons per month.
This contract calls FIR the expen-
d!ture of 100000 by the Southern
Railway company for rails alone and
will provide the steel for the laying
of So miles of track alone for the
next six months. This work alone
will furnish labor to an army of men
and will also greatly stimulate ether
industries. An order for 5000 kegs
of spikes was recently given to the
Atlanta Steel company and the pur-
chase of great amount of other ma
terial will be necessary for this work.
In giving these orders to Birmingham
and Atlanta plants the Southern is
carrying out it's policy of patronizing
southern industries.
This great order of steel will be
used in the work of improving and
double tracking the main stem be-
tween Washington and Atlanta A
large part will be used in replacing
steel now in the track which will in
turn be used to better the tracks of
some of the secondary lines.
This work of double tracking viii
not only mean much for the sections
Immediately touched, but will help
provide better service for every city
and town Oh the line of the Southern
railway OF the 3S1 miles of the line
between Washington and Charlotte,
176 miles of double track are already
in operation as follows: Washington
to Orange. Va, 6S miles; MontView.
Va, to Sycamore, Va, % miles; Dan
Vile, Va, to Pelham, N. c., 8 miles !;
| Greesboro, n. c., to Salisbury, N. c.,
SO miles.
Within the next thirty days ii is
expected that forty eight miles will be
added to this by the completion OF
track now under construction from
Franklin Junction, Va, to Whittle,
Va, 5 miles, and from Salisbury, N.
c., 8 miles. Twelve miles under con-
struction between Monroe, Va, and
Montview, Va, including the new tun-
mel through Lynchburg is expected
to be open for traffic by October 1.
This will give 236 miles of double
track cf the 3S1 miles between Wash
ington and Charlotte. Eight miles OF
double track at Spartanburg and At
anta give 244 miles of double track
of the total distance between Washing
ton and Atlanta, GAS miles.
In addition to this double track
on the main line the Southern now
has AZ miles of double track between
Knoxville and Morristown, Tenn, en-
the Knoxville, Bristol division, 2C
miles in the Birmingham district, Is
miles between Atlanta and Austell
used by the Birmingham and Chat
tanooga lines out of Atlanta, Is miles
| between Chattanooga and Ooltovtih
Junction on the Chattanooga, Kncx
| Vile line and three miles at Tsheville
! In the last eighteen months the
Southern used $4,000 tons of rail pur-
chased at Birmingham. The fact that
| 10000 tons are to be used in the neXt
six months shows the ratio of in
crease and it is hoped that the time is
not far off when there will be dou
BILE track all the way from Washing
ton to Atlanta.