The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-13
RAILWAY NOTES.

E. Moody Boynton, of Massachusetts,
who once built a short railway in
which the cars ran on single rail,
and who has projected schemes of this
kind a number of times in past years,
is still alive; and in Boston last week
he applied to the legislature for leave
to build such a railway from Boston to
Fall River, Providence and other
places.
The Mikado engines altogether weigh
10 1874, 900 pounds with their tenders,
which is 454. 900 pounds to each. They
are eight 64-inch drivers and boilers
containing 389 tubes. One of these en-
gines is capable of pulling any train Of
unlimited length that will hold to-
gether.
The Pacific type is is built for speed
and is capable of pulling a 12-coach
train, which is considered a very heavy
traction, at the rate of sixty-five miles
an hour, Their weight each is 44S,800
pounds, which is nine tons havier than
the heaviest engine in use.
The Pennsylvania is building a dock
here which, although not yet finished,
has been brought to that advanced
stage to afford the Pennsylvania en-
larged freight handling facilities. and
when the work is finally completed
this company will have the largest
dock in the world and greater equip
ment than any railroad operating in
New York harbor for landing trains
and transferring shipments between
cars and vessels.
Statistics by the American Iron and
Steel association show that the total
rail production of all kinds in the
| United States in 1910 amounted to g.
| 634, 029 tons, as compared with 3,023, 845
tons in 1909. The increase over 1909
| was 6101S4 tons, or over 20 per cent.
Rail production in this country reach
ed its high water mark in 1906, when
/ IL, o
172s56 tons of rails were rolled during
\ 1910 from purchased ingot5 or blooms,
crop ends, seconds or renewed or re-
rolled rails, while 3,460,934 tons were
rolled from ingots made by the rail
manufacturers. In remaining 230 tons
were iron.
! According to the government reports,
there is a demand for railroad ties in
| Chile, as there is a scarcity there, and
a demand this year for 100000 ties.
It is reported that an extension of
the Garden City, Gulf & Northern will
City Northern from arden City, Kan,
to Scott City, thence through Logan
county to Winona on the Union Pa
cific. so miles.
Directors of the New York Central
have declared a quarterly dividend of
IL per cent, reducing the annual rate
again to 5 per cent. The rate was
raised from to per cent a year ago,
and in 1908, as a result of the panic
t-e preceding fall, a cut was made
Twenty-Five men, for service in the
surveying corps, of the Rock Island
have gone to Carlisle, Ia, to begin
work on a third survey of the proposed
line southwark from that point. The
company also is assembling a force Of
men at Carlisle.
At the annual meeting of the Gulf,
Colorado & Santa Fe railroad at Gal
weston the board of directors was re-
elected for the ensuing year. The d.
rectors reelected officers as follows:
E. P. Ripley, president; F. G. Petit
bone, second vice president and gen.
eral manager; A. c. Torbett, Calves
ton, secretary and treasurer.
E. w. Townsend has been appointed
general car foreman Iowa and Des
Moines Valley divisions of the Rock
Island lines, with headquarters at VAL
ley Junction, Ia, vice E. S. Richard.
promoted
E. Gilroy has been appointed general
foreman of the Rock Island lines at
Caldwell. Kan, vice Bert Smith, re-
signed to accept service with another
company.
l. c. Herndon, who has been as
sistant city ticket agent for the Santa
past. has been appointed to the office
of joint ticket agent at Ardmore, Okla
for the Santa .Fe and Rock Island
ines
G. w salIee, formerly assistant city
ticket agent for the Santa F'e in Hous-
ton, Tex, has been appointed city
ticket agent and passenger agent a.
| Fort Worth.