The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-02-03
TOBU|LD ENGINES
AT LOCAL PLANT
Locomotive Works Gets Order
for Twcnty-Eight, Which
Starts Business Here.
THROUGH STEvENS's EFFORT
Chesapeake and Ohio President
Insists That Work Be Sent
to Richmond.
THROUGH sTEvENs's EFFORT

Contracts for the construction OF
twenty eight locomotives will BIO
awarded to tho American Locomotive
Company, and positive assurances have
been made that the work will be done
at the Richmond branch. The resump-
ZION OF the plant. which has been prac-
t:cally idle for several months, will
mean the employment OF several hun
dr"d men within the next few weeks,
with the chance that subsequent orders
Will warrant the operation OF tho plant
at Its full capacity.
twenty OF the engines have been
ordered by the Chesapeake and Ohio
halfway Company. Fourteen will be
oil the Mallet type for freight service
and six of the Pacific passenger type.
That these locomotives will be built
here is due chiefly to the efforts of
President George w. Stevens, who in
sisted that this be made n consideration
oil the award. In addition to the TWEEN
~ engines already contracted for. the
HockinE Valley Railroad, which Is
owned and controlled by the Chesa-
peake and Ohio will soon order six
freight locomotives for It's Increasing
coal traffic, while contract for the
construction OF two heavy eight wheel
switching engines has been awarded
by the Washington Southern Railway
Tor use in the Potomac yards. The
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Manager Receives Official Notice.
General Manager George Curry. Of
the American Locomotive COMPANY
stated last night that he had been Of
fcially Informed that the plant will
resume operations, but he was unable
10 say how many men would DO en-
ployed. or when the work would be-
GIN II Is expected, however. that tho
actual construction will start in about
three weeks. Foremen have been no.
tined or the reopening OF the plant,
and zach department Will be placed in
operation in rotation as the work pro-
gresses
General satisfaction IS felt here over
the prospects OF the speedy resump-
ton of the Locomotive Works When
In full blast it gives employment to
nearly 1000 skilled mechanics. and It's
pay roll is great asset to the city.
Big Equipment Order.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Company Is now receiving 1000 seven
ty-hve-ton gondolas and 1000 Nifty
seven and ono-half-ton gondolas. Or
ders were placed yesterday by Presi :
dent Stevens for 1000 fiat bottom and
1000 hopper bottom steel coal cars
for the Chesapeake and Ohio. and 1000
flat-bottom steel coal cars for the
Hooking Valley. The contracts were
awarded to the American Car and
Foundry Company, Huntington, w.
Va; Pressed Steel Car Company. Pitts
burgh, and the Standard Steel Car
| Company, Pittsburgh The order Will
| approximate s3.ceo.0O0 in addition to
the equipment now being delivered.
The Richmond. Fredericksburg and
Potomac Railroad Company is also
making number of purchases. Fifty
gondolas. with $4,000 pounds capacity,
are being delivered. Two steel dining
cars have just been put into service.
and orders have been placed with the
Rodger Ballast Car Company, Detroit,
| for the construction of fifteen steel
ballast cars