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RAIL AND CROSSTIE. There can be but one opinion as to the relative dead-weight now carried and the vast importance of lessening it, writes W. Barnet Le Van, in the Engineering Maga zine. It is time that attempts were made by railroad companies to introduces a new stem of cars so as to reduce the amount of read-weight as compared to paying-weight. To do this effectually each passenger must be assigned to one seat. If trains were so made up, with light-weight cars, with com fortable armed seats, fitted with doors on the sides so that the cars could be coupled up close together, and parlor and smoking care dispensed with, trains could be run be tween New York and Philadelphia inside of ninety minutes. As trains are now made up,a great many passengers expect not only a seat for their bodies, but another for their feet; others, not sociably disposed, fill up the vacant seats with their wraps and handbags. If a seat were assigned to each passenger, and in case of man and wife a seat side by side, it would prevent the dis graceful sights witnessed daily at the en trance to the cars at our railroad stations where men, women and children are haul ing, pulling and crowding each other, ham pered with hand-boxes, bird cages and hard-bags, each trying to reach the gate first so as to secure a seat. One of the most important railroad pro jects now in contemplation, with almost a certainty of its completion, is the railway proposed to connect Alaska primarily, and the United States secondly, with Cape Prince of Wales, the extreme northwestern point of Alaska. Though remote from this section, the question is interesting. It will make it possible for a traveler to reach Lon don and other points in Europe by virtuall an all-rail route. Among the many arti cles of import which would be cheapened by the completion of the line most impor tant would be ten. The route has been sur veyed. The distance from Victoria, B. C., to Cape Prince of Wales is 2,846 miles. Years ago Senator Stanford gave it as his opinion that a transcontinental road could be built and profitably operated over this route and across the Bering straits to Rus sia, there connecting with the Russian rail road, which will be completed to the straits in about three years. The scenery along the line is magnificent. One hundred men are at work on the shops of the Central road at Cedartown. Chief Engineer Hunter is on the ground this week with the plans and specifications for the different buildings, which will be rapidly pushed to completion. The Southern Passenger Association will hold a meeting at St. Augustine tomorrow for the purpose of discussing rates to the Chicago fair, and also the question of with drawing unlimited tickets. W. A. Love has been appointed traine Master of the main stem of the Central west of Macon. He succeeds KR. E. Good win and will have headquarters at Griffin. Two of the first locomotives constructed in Europe are en route for the world’s fair. They were built at Durham, England, in 1837 and 1838. They are queer pieces of me chanism as compared with those at present in use, having vertical cylinders and con necting rods, with fireboxes and smoke boxes in front. The locomotives are accom panied by a tender and an old-fashioned passenger coach upholstered in satin. The White Star steamship Runic, to New York from Liverpool, has on board an English railway train for exhibition at the fair at Chicago. The train consists of a 65-ton engine, tender and two coaches, ‘the coaches represent the most noted improve ments in English railway travel, and have sleeping rooms entirely different from the American system. The train is from the London and Northwestern railroad, and will travel under its own steam over the New York Central and Hudson River railroad to Chicago. Letters patent have been applied for and the articles of incorporation published, creating the Dunnellon Phosphate Railroad and Transportation Company of Florida. It is proposed to build a road from Dunnellon to the Early Bird phosphate mines, then north to Amelia Island on the Atlantic, and south from Dunnellon to deep water on Tampa bay. The incorporators are John L. Inglis and Ralph Baker of Madison, H. D. and John W. Anchinclons and C. K. Dutton of New York city, W. L. Brantley of Boston, J. M. Schumacher and J. R. Tyson of Jacksonville, Capital stock $100,000.
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Savannah Morning News
Savannah, Georgia, US
Thu, Mar 09, 1893
Page 8
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