Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-18
SEABOARD AIR LINE
Gets TEN LOCOMOTIVES
Passenger Service Between Rich
mond and Columbia
Improved.
USE NEW MOUNTAIN TYPE
Can Make Better Time on Grades
with Heavy, All-Steel Passenger
Trnins-lfailway Officials Discuss
Economies of Dininp.Car Servico

The Seahoard Air Line has lust rc
ceived ten mountain-typc locomotives,
which nave been put into service be-
tween Richmond and Columbia & g
replacing an equal number of the pa
ciiic-type superheater engines The
new locomotives were ordered hoc,use
the Pacific type was not satisfactory
IN handling the heavy passenger trains
oL Tue Seapoard, and could not make
the necessary speed on grades
me mountain-type locomotives have
a totai weight. including the tender, of
$4,000 pounds. and develop n tractiyr
effort OF $500 pounds. while Pacific
type mas total weight of 397 800
pounds and tractive effort OF 342OJ
pounds. with an increase in weight of
2',S per cent. an increase of 3o.S per
cent In tractive effort was obtained
combined with n higher boiler capacity
According to the American Locomotive
company, which built the locomotives.
me mountain type has a boiler capac-
itN OF as per cent, while the Pacific
type has only Sc per cent
through passenger trains over the
Sean"ard OF ten to thirteen steel cars
are being hauled by the big mountain
type on grades of IL per cent between
hlchmond and Raleigh. ~ c.. at Il
speed of thirty-five miles an hour The
tacihc type with similar trains would
drop pack TO a speed as low as eigh-
teen or twenty miles an hour The
comparison showed the inability of the
racine type to make the grades with
ten or more steel cars without exceed
ing the maximum speed limit of fifty
miles an hour at other points
The new locomotive design is a part
OF the Seaboard's program TO reduce
operating costs. The consumption of
lucL by the mountain type is IL per
cent less than that OF the Pacific.
The Chesapeake and Ohio is the only
other Eastern road TO have the noun
tain type in use for handling passen-
ger trains In the United States, only
tive roads are using the type. They
are the Rock Island, Great Northern.
Missouri Pacific. Seaboard and Chesa-
peake and Ohio. The diameter OF the
drivers used by the Seaboard exceeds
that OF the Chesapeake and Ohio's by
seven inches although the latter have
a superior tractive effort.
following changes in the personnel of
the Southern district Off Gals:
j. II. Stanhel, superintendent of Bir-
mngham division, promoted to general
superintendent of Southern district.
with headquarters at Birmingham. sue
ceedinS c. l.. Harris, resigned.
II. II. Vance, superintendent OF ter
mnals at Birmingham, promoted to
superintendent of Birmingham divi-
sion, succeeding Mr.. Staniel. Mr..
Vance is succeeded as superintendent
OF terminals by r. Haggard, formerly
trainmaster. and T. q. Crane is made
trainmastcr.
All OF the officials affected by the
change are we'll known on the South
ern system. particularly Mr.. Harris and
M.. Stan;iel.
The Illinois Central reports earnings
from its dining car service during the
last year al only SIS. This report was
laid before the examiner OF the Inter-
state Commerce Commission at Chi
cago last week in suhstantiation of the
plea Of Western and Southern roads
for an increase in passenger rates.
The Missouri Pacific reported a deficit
from its dining car service of $4,000
in 1918 and $4,000 in 1914. General
Passenger Agent Butler, OF the Mis-
souri, Pacific while on the stand said
he was OF the opinion that railroads
in transporting passengers should see
that they are we'll cared for. An i'm
portant part Of this duty, he said, was
in seeing passengers we'll fed.
I'VE must feed them either in eating
houses or in dining cars added Mr..
Butler III We were TO abandon din
ing cars We should have to eXpcnd
a great sum TO establish eating houses
capable Of handling the maximum de-
mand. which might come only once
month. Cars can run all day, whereas
eating houses must he large enough
and have sutti cient equipment TO handle
a trainioad of people in thirty min
utcs less ruin train schedules
If we were to make this investment
with all the necessary refrigeratinS
plants and other things needed for Il
public demanding fresh meats. fruits
and various Injuries. I believe that the
losses would be greater than with
dining cars"