The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-12
RAILROAD NEWS.
Work on Salina, Winnipeg &
Gulf viii Begin Soon.
New General Manager Assures
Salina of Construction.
START TWO GANGS
Money for 1850 Miles of Road
bed Is Raised.
Other Items of General Interest
in Traffic World.

Salina, July Thames NJ Herbert,
the new first vice president and gen
eral manager of the Salina, Winnipeg
& Gulf railroad. has arrived in Sal1na
and is arranging for the beginning of
work on the active construction of the
road. A telegram was received from
the Brindley company accepting the
terms of the contract for the construc-
ton of the entire 1000 miles of roadbed
and placing it in the hands of the COM
pany ready for operation. The work Is
to be completed within the next three
years.
Financial arrangements have been
completed whereby SIC, 900 will be at
the disposal of the company each year
during the time of construction. War
rem Nickerson has been selected as
chief engineer OF the railroad company
and he with his assistants will work in
connection with the engineers of the
construction company in building the
road and in finishing the surveys and
plans. 1t is planned to do the work IN
ten mile sections and to work out of the
various towns On the road There viii
be two gangs working out of Sallna,
one north and one south
Mr. Herbert comes to Sallna as a
man with much actual experience IN
railroad work. He has spent practical
ly all his life in the business, starting
with the Wabash as agent and operator
81 years ago He remained with the
Wabash for 16 years successfully filling
the positions Of chief train dispatcher,
yardmaSter and tra1nmaster. He then
became superintendent of the Grand
Trunk road at Montreal. In 1900 he be-
came superintendent of the Kansas and
Colorado division of the Missouri Pa
cific. For the next few years Mr..
Herbert held important positions with
various roads. In 1901 as general su-
perintendent of the St. Louis, Iron
Mountain & Southern. in 1902 with the
Southern Pacific with headquarters at
San Francisco, in 1908 as general man
ager of the Denver & Rio Grande, 1905.
vice president and general manager OF
the Colorado & Southern and the Fort
Worth & Denver. He retired from
actual railroad work in 1908 and has
become interested extensively in the
iron and foundry business since that
time.
When asked why he had left his 9TH
err work to enter again into active rail-
reading Mr.. Herbert replied, Il was
attracted to the Salina, Winnipeg &
Gulf railroad because l consider the
immense and immediate possibilities OF
the construction of a. great property, q
north and south trunk line through one
of the richest and most productive ter
ritories in the United States.
ssThis company will also Immediately
build branches of great Importance, as
the one contemplated Iedu1nS through
western Oklahoma into New Mexico
where it will open up the largest body
of bituminous coal in the entire west
ern country.
1.-THE development of traffic hauling
north and south, coming with the COM
pletion of the Panama canal really de-
mands a north and south trunk line
and we are building it as an absolute
necessity to the country. The local
traffic along the line will, think, in
itself provide for a modernly equipped,
first class railroad for both passenger
and freight traffic besides this great
interstate business
IAN entirely new and permanent
board of directors, composed of men of
actual railroad experience and repre-
sentatives of great financial interests
will be elected at once" said President
H Leone Miller, they will be an in
valuable support to Mr.. Herbert and
myself in the work of construction and
in placing the road in operation as
early as possible
Mr.. Herbert expects to make Salina
his future home and viii move his
family here about August 1. Mr.. Nick
erson will also locate here during the
construction of the road.