The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-08-18
RUMBLE OF THE RAILS
News Picked Up at Depot, Siding
and Round House.

The Wabash has four work trains
employed hauling gravel to ballast the
road between Ottumwa and Moulton,
a distance of thirty-six miles. Here
tofore the company has employed
Greeks for this work, but failing to get
satisfactory service from this class Of
labor, it now has employed negro la
bor So soon as the ballasting is COM
pleted the company will relay the en-
tire line from Ottumwa to Moberly
with S0.pound steel.
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Of well known railroad man from
one end of the old X. d. to the other
and whose old home town is Pella, the
Register and Leader has this to say:
Charles Brown, division superintend-
ent of the Rock Island at Fairbury,
Neb,, was in Des Moines yesterday en-
route to Davenport to attend a meet
ing of the superintendent of the. GEN.
trail district. Mr.. Brown left for DaV-
export last night in company with Su-
perintendent A. r. Abbott of the Iowa
division. Mr.. Brown is a protege of
ex-Superintendent C. NJ Gilmore of the
Des Moines-Keokuk division, who re-
tired six years ago after rounding out
a half century in the harness. About
the time Mr.. Gilmore babe adieu to
the work to which he had devoted a
lifetime, Mr.. Brown, then assistant to
him, was advanced to division super
intendency and assigned to the Iowa.
Dakota division with headquarters at
Baskerville. While in charge at Es-
/ therville, Mr.. Brown narrowly escaped
death in rear end collision, in which
his special car was shattered to frag-
ments and himself seriously injured.
For several years afterward he was
in poor health, but ultimately he re-
covered and was transferred to a
main line division with headquarters
at Fairbury, Neb., where he has been
for two or three years."
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Fireman Sam Tucker, of the Iowa
Central freight runs Nos. A and As,
between Oskaloosa and Monmouth, is
off duty taking his annual vacation
Mr.. Tucker and family have gone to
Amerilla, Texas, where they will visit
with friends and relatives.
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Firemen Strong, White, F. Martin
and Blumberg, of the Iowa Central
freight service, were on the "layof"
list. yesterday. The gentlemen went
IN nttth N1rIn fhnU nftrnA
their monthly pay checks. They re-
turned last night on passenger No. Is
and reported for duty.
Engineers Roy Graft, Bush, How.
arth, Dryden, Dicks, Sullivan, Ed Mar
tin, Baxter, Weigle, Reynolds, Fox,
Mann, and w. Gable, are on the LAY
ing-off'' list at the Iowa Central round
house.
The Burlington officials have can
celed the order requiring the removal
OF engine crews from Aurora, I'LL 1t
would have disturbed 400 families.
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! In order that its locomotive engin-
GERS may maintain a uniform rate of
speed, the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
is installing speed recorders in pas
senger engines used on through trains.
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A sharp competition for express bus
mess has developed in Southern Cali
fornia between the American Express
and the Wells-Fargo. The former com
pany announces a cut of seventeen
hours in the time between Los Ange-
les and New York City.
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The Iowa Central steam shovel.
which has been working for several
months near Seaton, ILL.,, where track
revision work has been in progress,
has been taken to Marshalltown
to be repaired. After this work is
done the shovel goes to Albert Lea,
where the NJ. & st. L. will use it in
preparing roadbeds for an extension
i of its yard tracks.
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j Regular passenger No. 4, Iowa Cen
trial, due in the city at 1900 a, m,
carried the "Hawkeye" officials car
/ yesterday. General manager w G..
Bierd, of the Iowa Central and the
| NJ. & st. l.. roads accompanied by r.
| X. Henley, engineer. The gentlemen
were bound for Peoria on business.