The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-03-31
SOUTHERN MAKING GREAT M
PROVEMENTS.
VIII Build Large Boiler Shop and
Large Store-House at Spencer
Thousands of New Cars to be Put
Into Service.


Large Store-House at Spencer
Thousands of New Cars to be Put
Into Service.
Washington, March 18.-President
Finley, of the Southern Railway
Company, made an announcement to-
day OF the details of important Or
ders for equipment and steel rails to
be given by that company and of
other important improvements to be
undertaken by it and by the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad Company.
The Southern Railway Company is
in the market for seventy-five new
locomotives, including passenger,
freight, and switching engines. The
Mallet articulated compound type.
This type of engine may be described
as two locomotives combined in one.
Those to be bought by the Southern
Railway Company will weigh, in
working order, and including tenders,
520,550 pounds each, and will be
used for heavy freight service. The
company is also in the market for g.
900 all-steel coal cars of 100000
pounds capacity, 500 all-steel coke
cars of 100000 pounds capacity, $50
steel under-frame stock cars of co.
900 pounds capacity, and 10 steel
under-frame. combination passenger
and baggage cars. These passenger
train cars are in addition to 119 pas
senger train cars recently ordered
and which have nearly all been de-
livered.
The company is now building for
itself, at it's Lenoir Car Works, 1 900
steel under-frame ventilated box-cars
and 200 steel under-frame stock cars.
/ 1t is also building at these works EOS
steel under-frame ventilated box cars
for the Georgia Southern and Florida
Railway Company. Upon the compile
ton of this work. about the first OF
August, it will commence the con-
struction, for the Southern Railway
! of 900 additional steel under-frame
ventilated box cars of $4,000 pounds
capacity. The Lenoir Car Works are
also making car wheels at the rate
of 100 per day, and this production
is to be steadily increased to 800 pei
day, the full capacity of the plant.
Orders are to be placed for 46,0OC
tons of steel rail. of which $4,000
tons will be for the Southern Rail
way proper, and the remainder fol
| the Georgia Southern and Florida
the Virginia and Southwestern, the
Mobile and Ohio, the Alabama Great
Southern, and the Cincinnati, New
The larger part of this rail will be or
dered from the Tennessee Coal, Iron
and Railroad Company.
The company is about to begiI
the erection of a freight transfer
station at the Inman freight yards
at Atlatna. Ca. such as it has a
Spencer, N. c. At present package
cars containing freight destined tt
points in all directions, arriving Al
Atlanta, are handled at the Madison
Avenue terminals. thus crowdint
these city terminals. The construc
ton Of the transfer station at tn,
Inman yards will greatly facilitate
handling this business and will re
lieve the Madison Avenue terminals
The company is also about to be
gin the erection of large new boile
shop and a large store-house at tn
Spencer, N. c., shop one of TIT
most important shops on the system
The new boiler shop will be equipped
with modern machinery and tools.
, The Mobile and Ohio Railroad
, Company will Immediately begin tn
: improvement of about 1000 feet o
dock property owned by it between
/ st. Anthony and Adams Streets, il
, Mobile. This improvement is mad
| desirable by the growing demand TO
: addional room for docking vessels a
= Mobile, resulting from the rapid in
crease in export and import bushes
through that port, and is in anticipa
ton of the still further increase il
this business that may be expecte
/ to result from the dredging of tn
t channel in Mobile harbor to a dept
= of twenty-seven feet, as provided fo
= in the Rivers and Harbors Bill no.
:. pending in Congress.