Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-14


and substitute machine manipu-
lated coal chutes.
Move car paint shop to near
master mechanics office and con-
vert it into a storekeeper's ware
house. Remove and relocate the
present storekeeper's warehouses.
Summarized. these are the improve
ments that Minneapolis & st. Louis
Railway Company expects TO make
during the next few years, according to
Times Republican from Vice President
and General Manager W. G. Bierd. The
work of charging the yards and build
ing the viaduct will be accomplished
this year, Mr.. Bierd expects. This be-
ginning will include the wrecking of the
old Iowa Central general office build
ing and it's freight platform and sheds.
and the building of a new freight depot.
platform, and switch racks to serve
tiIeIii
The revision and enlarging Of the
yards, together with the other neces-
sary relocation of buildings and APP
purtenances, and the new building the
changes will make necessary constitute
the largest single improvement any of
the local railroads have made within
the city's limits in many years. AS the
work is to be done year by year an
approximate of the total cost has not
yet been made
Build vfaduet and Depot.
I'VE do expect in fact we Will be
compelled. to build a new freight house
by the time the new viaduct Is done.
Therefore. summed up. for the coming
summer we hope to compete the via
duct complete a new freight house and
transfer platform and the necessary
tracks to- sersesthem, and part or ali,
of the new freight yards to be located
where the old freight house now stands.
The other Improvements are to follow
at later time. Mr.. Bierd says.
With the old freight house and plat
form out of the way. the ground that
they occupy will be filled with switch
tracks that viii extend east to point
about where the track that serves the
.Wesern Grocer Mills leaves the yards.
Will Make Other improvements.
Directly connected with this extern
sion Of the yards will be the altera-
tons and changes to be rade west OF
Third avenue in the vicinity OF the ice
houses and turn table. These. however.
may not be made until 1914. or later.
The ice houses are to be torn down and
removed eve will also" said Mr.. Bierd.
"rearrange the cinder pit tracks or
cinder pits. lining them up at a new
location directly east Of the turn tables,
relocate the sand house. sand cupola.
and drier, and more than probably, at
a future time. relocate the coaltng
station. This will depend largely upon
the room we have after the viaduct 10
completed, which may mean that we
will have to tear ont the old coal chute
and put up a machine plant. as there
will proba bly,. not be room under the
viaduct for trestle approach. But this
change Of coal chute and cinder pits
will not be made next summer"
When the lining up Of these APP
purtenances east of the turn table is
accomplished. it will mean straight
switch tracks extending across Third
avenue and far to the east. to serve
them. When that time comes the coal
Offices and sheds that stand in the way
will be moved. Their tenants have al
ready been notified to be prepared to
vacate on short notice.
Will Enlarge ~ Needed.
The progress of these improvements
and engagements will go on from year
to year as the business grows and as
the company is prepared to appropriate
the money for the expenditures.
Directly connected with these changes
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