The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-18
J. R. BROWN. Proprietor
 In the Empire Building !
SOUTHERN PLACES BIG ORDERS FOR T
 MORE EQUIPMENT

Washington, March 17.--(Special. )-Pes- ident Finley of the Southern Railyay company made an announcement td1ay of the details of important orders for equipment and steel rails to be givei by that company and of other importan im- provements to be undertaken by it aid by the Mobile and Ohio Railroad comrny.
 The Southern Railway company is in the market for 75 new locomotivs, in- cluding passenger freight and switching engines. The freight engines inclide two Of the Mallet artculated compouid type This type of engine may be desfibed as two locomotives combined in ors Those to be bought by the Southern Railway company will weigh, in working order and including tenders, 5sO.55 poundseach, and will be used for heavy freigt service. The company is also in the market for 300o all-steel coal cars of o0.OO0pounds ca- , capacity, 300 all-steel coke CTS of 1Oo,- 900 pounds capacity, 150 seel under frame stock cars of edD00 pounds capacity, and ten steel underframe combination passenger and aggage cars. These passenger train cars are in addi- tion to 119 passenger traincars recently ordered and which have rsarly all been delivered
 The company is now buding for itself, at it's Lenoir Car Works, 900 steel under frame ventilated box cas, and 200 steel underframe stock cars t is also build- ing at these works 2o5 teel underframe ventilated box cars for te Georgia South err and Florida Railwa company. Upon the completion of this work, about the first of August, it WI commence the construction, for the Iouthern railway, of 1000 additional steel inderframe venti- lated box cars of 5000 pounds capacity. The Lenoir Car worB are also making car wheels at the rse of 12O per day, and this production 1 to be steadily in- creased to 300 per da, the full capacity of the plant.
 1. Orders are to be laced for 46Oo0 tons yf steel rail, of whih 3e,OOo tons will be for the Southern Railway proper and the remainder for the ieorgia Southern and Florida, the yirgira and Southwestern, the Mobile and Oht the Alabama Great Southern and the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacificrailways. The larger bart of this rail will be ordered from f"tne lenntSStt Opis iioH anu ItdiirOdu company.
 The company about to begin the erection of freght transfer station at the Inman freigk yards at Atlanta, Ga, such as it has atSpencer, N. c. At pres- ent package car containing freight des- tined to points 1 all directions, arriving at Atlanta. rehandled at the Madison avenue terminss, thus crowding these city terminals. IThe construction of the transfer station at the Inman yards will greatly facilitge handling this business and will relievl the Madison avenue ter- minals.
 The compant is also about to begin the erection of alarge new boiler shop and a large storelpuse at the Spencer, N. C., shops, one oi the most important shops on the systen. The new boiler shop will be equipped with modern machinery and tools.
 The Mobilsand Ohio Railroad company will immediately begin the improvement of about 1O0t feet of dock property owned by 1t between St. Anthony and Adams streets. in Mobile. This improvement Is made desiraDle by the growing demand for additionl room for docking vessels at Mobile, esulting from the rapid in- crease in xport and import business through tht port and is in anticipation of the still further increase in this bus mess that nay be expected to result from tha dredging of the channel in Mobile harbor to depth of 27 feet, as provided for in the rivers and harbors bill now kpending inCongress.