The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28
RAILROAD NEWS
Pueblo on Santa Fe Budget for
Two Millions.
Yard Facilities and Shops in
Colorado City.
WORK HAS BEEN STARTED
Two Hundred Men ON Track
Improvements.
Other Items of General Interest
In Traffic World.

Pueblo Col, March 2S.-An expendi-
ture of s., 100 900 is to be made in Pu-
eblo this year by the Santa Fe rail-
road, if plans now under consideration
materialize. New railroad facilities, in
Guiding larger and better yards, new
and enlarged roundhouse, new tracks
leading into and out of the city, and
many miles of improved roadbed, are
some of the improvements proposed
Estimates were recently forwarded
to headquarters in Chicago showing
plans and specifications of the propos
ed changes, and officials of the COM
pany are expected here within a week
or so to decide on definite improve
ments. The latest estimates show I'M
provements that will cost from two to
two and quarter millions dollars. The
company has been figuring on the pro-
posed improvements for year or more,
but the location of the yards and shops
was hard to determine. In fact this
part of the program has not yet been
definitely settled. There are three or
four sites under consideration.
Many things enter into the consider
alton of the proposed changes. 1t IS
desired by the company to secure Il
site where ample trackage is aHorded,
and where the yards can be made
large enough to suit the demands OF
the company. The accessibility to the
business section of the city is another
item that figured prominently in the
consideration of the location.
one of the largest and best equipped
railroad shops and terminals on the
entire Santa F'e system will doubtless
be erected. The present shops, located
at the foot of West Fourth street, will
be removed to the site that will be Sc
lected for all of the permanent I'M
provements. The roundhouse, now con-
tanning 20 stalls, will be large enough
to house so engines. The machine ana
car repairing department will be en- |
larged and their capacity doubled.
Only such work as the running re
pairs has been done in Pueblo be- !
cause the present quarters could not |
be increased to the extent the COM |
pany has planned. With the erection |
of the new roundhouse and shops prac- |
tically all the repair work on this d1- |
vision can then be done here, and this |
will result in a material saving to the |
company.
The Santa Fe al present does all the |
local work for the Colorado & South |
ern and under the new plan this ar |
ransement will doubtless continue. |
The joint terminals will still be main /
tanned by the Santa Fe, in all proba- |
b-l-ty-
TWO. hundred men are now at work |
op the track between Pueblo and La |
Ix "a. This is being reballasted with I
#es from the Pueblo smelters. In |
pisces the rails are being replace |
with heavier steel, and the bridges |
will be repaired and reinforced. The |
track improvements on this division |
will cost about half million, accord |
ing to the estimates. The present work |
of extending and charging the switches
between Pueblo and Denver will con-
tinue, until the road will be prac-
ticaIly double tracked. This improve
inent will be a great benefit for the
Santa Fe and Colorado & Southern,
using the line jointly, as it will mean
q nractical double tracking of the road. |