The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-03-23

Extensive improvements to be Made.

Washington, March .17.-PreSldent Fin
lev, of the Southern Railway Company,
made an announcement today OF the de-
tails Of important improvements to be un-
dertaken by it and by the Mobile q Ohio
Railroad Company,
market for rs new locomotives, including
passenger, freight, and switching engines.
The freight engines include, two OF 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, 52O,55O pounds each, and will be
used for heavy freight service. The Com,
pany is also in the market for 5000 all-steel
coke cars Of 100000 pounds capacity, 15O
steel underframe stock cars OF 10000
pounds capacity, and 10 steel underframe
combination passenger and baggage cars.
These passenger train cars are In addltlon
to 119 passenger train cars recently Or
dered and which have nearly all been de-
livered. ~
The Company Is now building for itself,
at it's Lenoir Car Works, 1000 steel under
frame ventilated box cars and 200 steel un-
derframe stock cars. 1t is also building at
these works 2O5 steel underframe ventil-
ated box cars for the Georgia Southern d
Florida Railway Company. Upon the COM
pletion of this work, about the first OF Au-
gust, it will commence the construction,
for the Southern Railway, of 1000 addi-
tional steel underframe ventilated box cars
of SO,OOO pounds capacity. The LenOir Car
Works are also making car wheels at the
rate Of l2O per day, and this production is
to be steadily increased to 800 per day, the
full capacity Of the plant.
Orders are to be placed for $4,000 tons OF
steel rail, Of which $4,000 tons Will be Tor
the Southern Railway proper, and the re-
mainder for the Georgia Southern u Flor
ida, the Virginia & Southwestern, the
Mobile d. Ohio, the Alabama Great South
ern, and the Cincinnati, New Orleans y
Texas Pacific Railways. The larger part
of this rail will be ordered from the Ten
nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company,
The Company is about to begin the erec-
ton of freight transfer station at the In
man freight yards, at Atlanta, Ca, such as
it has at Spencer, N. C. At present, pack
age cars containing freight destined to
points in all directions, arriving at Allan
Ia, are handled at the Madison Avenue ter
ninals. The construction of the transfer
station at the Inman yards will greatly ia
cilitate handling this business and relieve
the Madison Avenue terminals.
The Company is also about to begin the
erection of q large new boiler shop and q
large storehouse at Spencer, n. g., shops,
one of the most important shops on the
system. The new boiler shops will be
equipped with modern machinery and
tools.
The Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company
will Immediately begin the improvement
of about 1000 feet of dock property owned
by it between st. Anthony and Adams
Streets, in Mobile. This Improvement. is
made desirable by the growing demand for
additional room for docking vessels at Mo
bile, resulting from the rapid increase in
export and import business through that
port, and is in anticipation of the still fur
ther increase in this business that may be
expected to result from the dredging OF the
channel in Mobile harbor to depth Of 27
feet as provided for in the Rivers and Har-
Dor Bill now pending in Congress.