The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-06-15
PENNSY RAILROAD
ELECTRIFICATION
Improvement Brings Employ
ment And Pay Envelopes
To Thousands

With special Improvement pay oiio
running we'll over three-qua1ters or
a milton dollars monthly, $500 fur
loushed railroad workers regularly
employed, and orders for materials
and supplies already placed in Amer
lean Markets totaling $25,0OO,OO0,
lie Pennsylvania Railroad is moving
rapidly forward toward the snrmer
peak on it's huge S77,000,00t cleo
IRRIGATION and equipment huilcihg
program, financed by P. w. A. This
prolect, termed the largest corporate
construction job in the country, was
started four months ago.
approximately 5000 furloughed
railroad workers are now regularly
employed between New York, Phila-
delphia, Wilmington, Baltimore ana
Washington stringing wires, erecting
steel poles and pouring concrete pole
foundations They are preparing the
way for the inauguration ty the
pennsylvonia of through electrified
service, both passenger and freight,
between the metropolis and the cap
ilal early in 1885. Payrolls on the
roadway identification worn alone
apnroximate half million dollars
monthly and construction will con-
tinue actively throughout the year.
In the New York territory 1900
men are working; 1000 are employ
ed in the Philadelphia-Wiln
district and 1900 between Balt1-
more and Washington. Nearly 500
men are engaged in work OF gen
eral nature common to all sections
of the identification.
Also included in the improvement
program, financed by P. w. A, is
the work of constructing 1000 new
freight cars in the railroads shops
at Altoona, Pittsburgh and Harris
burg. More than $500 men are
now regularly employed on car con-
struction in these shops, with month
ly pay checks totaling well over
100000. New freight cars are
rolling out of the construction run-
ways at the rate of 60 day. With
a total of $17,0O0,OOO allotted for
this car building programme be
spent largely for wages and mater
fals-work will go steadily forward
until late this year.
More than $500 industrial plants
are sharing in the huge orders for
materials and supplies placed by the
railroad for use in the Improvement
work. In several instances entire
plants, closed down for two or three
years. have re-opened and re-em-
ployed hundreds of men to produce
material for the Pennsylvania JOB,
According to conservative estimates,
a years work for almost $4,000 ad-
ditional men on the railroad and in
industrial plants throughout the
country is represented in the pro-
jsct.
TO date, in pushing forward the
eectr -acation work, 125 miles OF cop
per wire have been strung by rail-
road workers SAB steel poles have
been erected to carry the wire sys-
ten, while upwards of $50 barrels of
cement are being consumed daily in
mixing concrete for pole founda-
lions. Almost 5000 tons of steel
already have been received for the
job.
The program involves the electri-
fication of 108 miles of railroad
from Wilm ngton to Washington,
completing the main line track cleo
trifica lion between New York and
the Capital; electrification of several
important freight branches and
yards in the New York area as well
as freight yards at Trenton, Wilm-
inEton, Baltimore, and Washing
ton, and the elevated freight tracks
through Philadelphia. Road W y
signal, telephone and telegraph sys-
TENS are being rearranged, 16 new
substations built and additional ap-
paratus installed in Is existing SUB
stations. Construction work on the
project is now about 25 per cent
complete.
A large feet of electric locomo-
tives for operation on the newly cleo
trified line will be built later as part
of the P. w. A. improvement work
on the Pennsylvania.
RAISED MONEY TO BUY LIQUOR