The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-02-02
TRAIN SERVICE Is
BADLY CRIPPLED
POOR MANAGEMENT FINDS C.
AND p. UNABLE TO COPE WITH
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The train service over the @. and
f. between Salmon and Armstead has
been badly crippled by the SHOWS and
excessively cold weather as well as By
its excessively bad management The
trains have frequently been out for
long hours during the past two
months, so that the endurance of the
crew has been sorely tested.
For example the train that reached
Salmon last Monday night after IL
o'clock, did not succeed in gettins
farther than Leadore on the return
trip the next day, Tuesday, because
Of an accident TO the snow rotary,
which hung up the train al Leadore
till Wednesday morning,
Passengers who have been in such
accidents and delays as are experienc
I'd almost every day all tell OF the un
firing efforts of the train men to
make time on their runs but with
poor success, The trains are uniform
ally late II indeed they happen 10 get
IN at all on the days they are sched
uled 10 arrive at the end OF their runs
Every traveller speaks in terms of
praise for the heroic endeavor man
| ifested by the G, and +. train crews
| who do mighty well indeed when the
poor excuse OF the railroad manage
ment and the equipment II provides
are taken into account
II was this management that sent
m the last Christmas mail TO Salmon
in refrigerator car and then held
! Il tin far into the next day before
having IL delivered TO the post offiee,
| There had been no mail TO Salmon
before that hang.up for four days, II
has been said that the superinten-
dent IL going to correct that sort OF
| thing and that there will be no such
recurrence in the future, he will see
to that There was a stormy denial
ofs the Christmas mail hang.up when
the facts were first published, how
refrigerator car full of accumulated
mail, intended for all the Salmon
country served by the star routes as
well as for this city, was held out at
the tracks all night and half a day in
this city after arriving here early
In the evening before. The superin-
tendent thought he might call the
editor "A liar and get away by the bluff
Then he picked on the delivery man
and said he WAS the goat, being now
about 20 discharge him from the rail-.
J road delivery service. The truth Is
I nobody but the superintendent him.
J. self was TO blame.
= Whenever an accident occurs and
2 klhe train In delayed the appliances
\ for making repairs with the least pos
> siblc delay are generally somewhere
far out of reach when good manage
ment would suggest that they be near
AT hand Whenever snowbanks are
} encountered on the tracks the rotary
Id sIatfnnnA IA e.. .,,A
p likely II viii take half day 20 send
for H. II took two or three hours the
:. other day at Leadore. with the long
9 wcarlsome wait for a score OF paaBen-
gers, 10 go hunt up linchpn for the
locomotive, or something OF that sort,
NJ 10 make needed repairs Even the
q ordinary little necessities OF railroad,
0 ing are seldom looked after and pro
y yided ahead OF their actual need, il
i would seem, by the management OF
n the q. and T.
/. one OF the leading business men OF
J. Salmon, referring 10 the poor return
!. which the railroad gives for the pat,
1 rohhge received, makes the point that
r these conditions are good neither for
n the railroad nor the community il n
e supposed to serve We ought not Ia
J. be compelled 10 complain about this
}. inadequate service" he said. FOR the
, TACT OF any compliant at all on the
y part OF the community shows some.
thing wrong both with the community
r. for standing such conditions and with
4 the service complained OF as well for
e furnishing that service The Salmon
r country furnished profitable busl
u ness for the @. L. +. railroad last yeai
Il IN spite OF It's inadequate service and
+ Notwithstanding the large withdraw
Il ais OF passengers who had chosen the
d automobile routes in and out OF the
& valley ! have heard IL said that
II twenty thousand dollars would moi
n more than cover the loss OF the rail
e road in this one item--enough money
d TO buy and pay for and maintain In
n service a motor car OF sufficient ca
u pactty to care for daily mail as vel
u ~ this passenger traffic that was !
" total losts. Even a high-power auto
II mobile supplied with nange wheel.
D. run on rails would have been a say
n ing. Instead OF this we have had an
n other year OF the mixed train runnlni
n on tri-weskly schedule of hit o.
miss. generally from one hour to ter
ii hours late. once or twice weed
h would be often enough for the freiEh
10 service, but We ought TO have "a daily
ri passenger and mail service"