The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-11
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The Denver & Rio Grande Western
announces that it will this year con-
struct narrow gage lines on the basis
of the standard gage. at a cost of ap-
proximately S12, 100000.
The Chicago & Northwestern an
nounces that it will place orders
shortly for 1000 new freight cars. the
purchase of which was recently au
thOr.zed by the board of directors.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul
has asked the interstate commerce
commission to extend for ten years a
$10,000.OOO note held against it by the
government, which falls due on Janu-
airy 1. 1928.
The Salina Northern has applied to
the Interstate Commerce commission
for a loan of S3OS.63O for ten years
to>enable il to retire Indebtedness and
purchase equipment and make other
improvements
In ordering 500 automobile cars
from the Pullman company. the Bur
hngton completed an allotment of
1900 new freight cars for this year.
The company had previously ordered
$500 of these cars.
The Chicago. Burlington & Quincy
has ordered forty-seven Mikado, Santa
Fe and Pacific type locomotives from
eight Mountain type engines from the
Lima Locomotive works.
The New York Central has applied
to the interstate commerce commits
sion for permission to lease the Toledo
& Ohio Central and all of its associated
lines in Ohio and Michigan for opera
ton as part Of its present system.
The Kansas City Southern railway
and the Texarkana & Fort Smith rail-
way showed a net gain of more than
1900, 900 for the year ending Decem-
Der 81. 1921, over the previous year,
according to a report just issued. The
net for 1921 was S4,722,940-
The Union Pacific plans to expend
about $2,O00.000 on freight terminal
improvements at Cheyenne, Wyoming,
according to reports. This may be
why the $4,000 has not yet been ap-
propriated for a new station, freight
depot and other improvements at To-
peka.
Announcement is made that the
Great Northern railroad will place or
ders for 500 cars as soon as the bond
issue of S3O,00O,O0O for general re-
ha bilitation is authorized. The order
will include ], 900 stock cars, /, 900 box
cars, 1000 gondolas and 500 refriger-
atQr cars.
The Santa Fe has awarded the con-
tract for the construction of seventy
five miles of second track between
Yampai, Ariz., and Gritty, includ-
ing the reduction of a grade. to the
of Los Angeles. This is the biggest
stretch OF new track the Santa Fe
will build this year.
A contract for the building of 500
automobile cars has been awarded to
the Pullman company by the Burling-
ton. These cars will be forty and one
half feet long. have unusually wide |
doors to expedite loading and unload |
ing. will be equipped with ventilated
roofs and can be converted into grain |
cars to double their usefulness.
Seven square acres OF floor space
will be contained in the 100000 |
mail terminal building of the new
union station improvement program at |
Chicago. The building will be COM |
pleted this summer. It will be 500 |
feet long. as feet wide, and six stories /
high. Trackage space will be pro- |
vided for forty e0-foot mail cars at
one time.
The Kansas G. Oklahoma Southern |
has been authorized by the interstate |
commission to construct a /
line sixty-one miles long from Caney, !
KAN. to Vinita. Okla. and in addition 1
to build an extension ten miles north |
coal mining field which is being \
opened up in Oklahoma a short dis 4
lance south OF Chetopa, Kan.
As the January railroad reports I
continue to appear, indications point /
TO a probable betterment of the orig i
NAL estimate of $50. 600, 100000 for the
2O1 class 1 roads during that month.
The Bureau of Railway Economies, |
In a report issued this week for 1875
carriers showed net railway operat-
ing income at S23, EOS. compared /
with a deficit of $300.S79 for the same
roads in January, 1921.
During January the Santa Fe han
iled q total of SAT sleeping cars in i
trains out of Chicago for Los Angeles I
sleepers daily. including a few cars
from Minneapolis which the Santa F'e
took over at Kansas City. Second sec
lions were run every day during the /
month and there were nineteen third /
sections. A large number OF the cars I
were operated via the Grand Canyon
and these in particular were filled to
capacity.
The extent TO which railway equip !
ment companies have been affected /
by inability of the railroad companies /
TO improve their physician condition is 4
asserted in the 1891 report OF the
American Locomotive company. Gross
against s,SS4.s1s in 1870. Total in
were cut to S4.751 ,901, COM
pared with $15.119.34z in the previous
year. and total current assets OF 844,- /
415.922 show. n decrease of almost \
e5.000,oo0s a
Referring to the Santa FEES budget
Of S48.0o0.0e0 for the year 1922. the 1
Journal says: IF all the rail- |
ways would arrange for similar bud
gets in proportion to their mileage,
ness in every section of the country.
and financial conditions in most all 1
lines of trade would take on new life
would be restored and the j
army of unemployed would dwindle
down to a minimum. The West is
proud OF the santa Fe system and its 4