Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-01
RAILROADS SPEND Much CASH
Those Entering Omaha Started Elk
penditures Amounting to 81, 500, 900.
HARTMAN LINE PLANS MOST
improvements on All Lines Have
Been Made 10 Better the Service
These Roads May Render
che Public.

struction work was started in Omaha in
the year 1910 by the railroads running into
this city. The biggest work was the Union
Pacific headquarters. $4,000 structure
and next comes the Burlington freight
terminal. which is TO cost close TO $4,000.
The Union Pacific shop buildings improve
ments and the new buildings there amount
20 $4,000 and the new railroad postoffioe
just being completed costs $4,000.
Union Pacific headquarters at Fifteenth
and Dodge streets stands now with the
steel work completed and the brick and
stone work progressing we'll II was
started last April and will be finished In
Ngeptember, 1911 The structure will be one
Of the finest. II not the finest, Of the en-
tire west being twelve stories In height,
steel, concrete and brick construction and
planned and finished in the best and most
modern plans OF today. James Stewart &
Co. Of St. Louis are the contractors
The Union Pacific shops had five new
buildings started in the summer Of 1910,
roundhouse, sawmill. shop building. pony
sawmil and store house. besides various
improvements and engagements I'm the
older buildings. New appliances Of all
kinds for facilitating the work Of the
shopmen and increasing the capability Of
the SHOPS were auucQi as III LoFintT years
One Of the events Of the year in Omaha
was the inspection day Of the Union Pa
clno shops. when the road invited all
omaha to come there and 60 through on a
trip Of inspection and see the work done
Little New First Track.
Very little first track work was done in
1910 by the Union Pacific, about twenty
'ive miles being put in spur tracks In
Colorado, thirty-eight miles from Hanna
TO Rawlins, wyo; twenty-four miles from
Dent TO Fort Collins wyo; twenty miles
from Rock Springs up Kilpacker creek
were projected and started. In second
track work, however. elghty-five miles was
put In in Nebraska alone, the double track
Of the road being extended to North
Platte, making total Of COS miles of
soluble track complete. In Wyoming
twenty-five miles OF double track was laid
ana in Colorado three miles. sdetraoking
amounted to twenty miles. The various
track improvements OF the road, including
stations, amounted to over $e.OOO.OOO.
New Freight House ts Beauty.
II is the proud boast OF the Burlington
men in Omaha that when the new Omaha
freight depot is fully constructed there will
not be a better freight terminal anywhere
zach 800 feet In length are TO be built one
for outbound use and the other for in
bound freight The work Of 1910 consisted
n building three OF the five sections of
the inbound house. Before Ions the Buri-
tpRton expects TO take out the hump in It's
track Just west OF the passenger station
yards IN Omaha on the lines going west.
The land has been bought for this purpose
and when practicable the track will be
Strengthened,
At Havelock. Neb.. the Burlington shops
were enlarged $4,000 worth, new erect
ing shop costing $4,000 a storehouse si53,
900 and a power house SCI 900. Nineteen diff
kerent buildings were constructed In 1910 in
the Lincoln yards at a cost Of $4,000 by
the Burlington also. The yards are partly
for freight end partly for passenger and
greatly help the road in lining up trains
from the west and the east TO connect in
shorter time than formerly
One OF the biggest construction works Of
the year on the Burlington lines west Of
the river is the Powder River to Thermop-
oils lire, which is TO be 10 miles long when
completed The line will make a short
cut from the Big Horn Basin and western
Wyoming 10 the Burlington holdings In
Nebraska and connects the lines with the
IIill lines of the north. The roadbed has
been all graded and the bridge built over
the Powder River completed which is the
greater part OF the work, Fifteen miles
Of track have been laid and in the spring
when work begins again the remainder will
be put down From scribner TO From
berg, Mont. a roadbed of thirty miles has
also been graded and Is only awaiting the
spring and warm weather for the tracks
90 be laid.
The total OF track laid on the Burling-
ton lines west OF the Missouri in 1910 was
thirty-five In new track twelve and one
half In second track and fifty-nine in |
sidstraoks. East OF the Missouri various
tracks were laid In second track and siding
work
NSrthwestern Improves Lines,
on the Northwestern lines west of the
Missouri there were no very great pro-
jeots constructed In 1910 but a large
amount OF money was spent in doing a
multitude OF small improvements and small
construction work,
Chadron received a new machine shop
and round house In place OF the buildings
that burned down the first part of August.
The new buildings were of brick and steel
construction and cost $4,000 A total Of
$4,000 was spent IN permanent bridge
work in 1910 and another $4,000 In tenn
pOrary bridge work.
An even million dollars was put in new
stations turn tables, water tanks and sid
ings along the right Of way, The right OF
way in Nebraska and South Dakota and
Wyoming was placed In the hest pOssi-
bic shape for the coming year. New steel
tracks Weighing seyenty-two pounds We're
placed along seventy five miles OF the
road. new line ten miles in length was
constructed between Dallas. s. D., and Co
lone. Another line twenty-four miles in
length was laid In the Belle Fourche val
ley OF south Dakota from Belle FOurehe
20 Newell
Between the two division points in Ne
braska, chadron and Long Pine, the road
built metallic telephone circuit system AZ
a cost OF s5o.o00. 20 aid In the handling OF
trains over these divisions.
Work In the Missouri Valley shops was
completed IN buildings TO some extent and
track Improvements made all through
Iowa on the same system as the Nebraska
and western improvements
other lines running into Omaha planned