Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-01
SPEND LARGE sum
Expenditures, However, Have Not
Kept Pace with Former Years.
UNION PACIFIC PAYS THE MOST
New work In the West Has been n
Direct Benefit TO Omaha
some New Mileage Laid
During Year.

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While the railroads centerlng in Omaha
did not undertake and complete as much
new work during 1911 as in former years.
they were not idle. for they expended
millions Of dollars in the city and
throughout the territory tributary.
In the amount OF expenditures during
tho lass year, the Union Pacific leads
an the other roads. During the year It
added To- It's mileage by constructing two
now branch lines. one from Bridgeport to
Gcrlng, Neb.. and another from Dent TO
Fort Collins, total OF j5,i3 miles.
Eighty-cight miles OF new second main
limo track was laid, over slVty-one miles
OF this being IN Nebraska. Nineteen
niles OF yard and siding track was con-
structcd. Tho automatic block system
was extended by adding almost twenty
nine miles Of single track signals and
changing from single TO double track
signals 1a2 miles.
New Headquarters Here.
I'm buildings, the largest single eXpen-
allure was in the erection OF the mag
nifccnt fireproot headquarters structure
Ia Omaha. This was erected at cost Of
I,25GOJ ana Is now occupied BY the Of
riccs or the Overland system.
At tho Union Pacific shops In Omaha
the company expended several hundred
thousand dollars In the erection of new
buildings and euuipping them. These new
buildings are all OF brick and iron, fire.
proof, and are as follows; Planning mill,
pony sawmill, dry kiln, substorc, chem
lcal storage building. brick sand blast
and varnlsh remover and a five-stall en-
gino house.
out on the line. a new brick power
house, a brick engine house with twenty
seven stalls and an immense steel turn
table were constructed at Laramie, wyo.i
at Cheyenne an eighteen-stall, brick en-
CINE house, at Rock Springs, an eight
STALL brick engine house, new brick
boiler house and 65,Oo0-gailon capacity
steel water tank; at Sidney, brick, nine
stall engine house; at Fort Co1,lns.
| brick, eight-stall engine house, steel turn
table and a 65OOO-gallon capacity steel
water tank; at Green River, a large Of
flee building,
New DepOts.
! New brick depots We're erected at Eaton
and Fort Collins. Colo, and at Schuyler,
Neb. New coaling stations, with large
capacity, were constructed at LaSalle.
Colo, and I<earney. New interlocking
switches were located at Quimby and
Sand Creek, Colo, the former at the point
where the line crosses the Denver, Lara
mie a. Northwestern and the other where
the main line and the Burlington inter-
sect.
During the year the Union Pacific added
materially to its equipment, having put
into service ten new passenger engines,
twenty-five freight engines. five observa-
ton cars. 500 automobile cars, $50 box, 500
ballast and 100 flat cars.
Northwestern improvements.
In Omaha territory the Northwestern
opened tweve miles OF new main line 10
the northwest. building from Colome to
! Winner, s. ID. IL constructed a S65,O0e
depot and eating house at South Norfolk
and Installed $4,000 train dispatchlng
telephone circuit between South Omaha
and Fremont and between Arlington and
Missouri Valley.
In addition TO the foregoing. the North
western expended moro than SlOO0,OOO In
improvements to station buildings and
machine shops and on permanent bridge
work on its lines west OF the Missouri
river.
Chief among It's betterments and Inn
provements in Omaha, during the last
year the Burlington constructed at
Eighth and Farnam streets an outbound
freight house, fireproof and costing sg15.-
600. At its passenger station II erected a
United States mail transfer building cost
Ing $1,000. At Gibson an ice house costing
$780, 600 has been erected.
Builds in wyoming.
Extending It's omaha-wyoming line,
the Burlington built from Kirby 20 Pow
der river the cost for grading, bridging,
etc, being about $4,000. The regular
bridge renewals during the year aggre-
gated an expenditure OF S35OO0O while the
rail replacement added 10000 more
The expenditures OF the Missouri Pa
ciflc during the last year In Omaha ter
rltory reach very close to $1,000 900. The
most of this has been used In practically
rebuilding the line from Omaha to Kan
sas city. Along this stretch of road
hills have been cut down and hollows
filled thus reducing the grade to the
minimum. In many places curves have
been taken out and the line Strengthened.
Besides this, the company has ordered a
large quantity OF new passenger train
equipment, which is expected TO be put
into service ssortly after the first of the
year.
other Omaha roads have expended
large sums or money in other localities
in the way OF new buildings and some eN-
tension, but I'm this territory nothing has
been done except the regular maintenance