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Show WIDENING THE GAUGE. Tho Chang on the Itlo Grande Western to be Made Tomorrow. The work of changing the Rio Grande western from a three-foot to standard gauge road begins tomorrow morning and will be completed in not to exceed thirty-six hours. ' The last train from Denver that will run through without change will be the Pacific mail tomorrow morning, which leaves the union depot at 8:05. The Oregon train that night and the same trains on Monday will only run to Grand Junction, after that it is expected trains will run as usual, except that passengers will step from tho narrow to the broad-gauge coaches on arriving at Grand Junction. There will be no delay de-lay and passengers holding seats in the sleepers will have the samo numbered berths assigned them in the other train. The work of broad gauging t he Western West-ern has been going on , tor several months. From Ogden to Price station, which is tho junction of a coal branch, broad guage trains have been running for some tlmo. The broad guage track has also been completed to Green river, but has not been operated east of Green river. Several important changes have been made in tho lino aud from that point to Grand Junction but little of the old road bed will be used. Curves will be straightened, grades reduced and several miles of distance saved. At many points the new line runs close to the old track, while at others it soveral miles distant. Wherever possible the old grade has been used by laying the broad gauge rails outside the three-foot line, and the work of next Tuesday will be to con- nect the broken sections ol track. Large forces of men will be stationed along the line, and the work may be completed com-pleted inside the estimated time. When tho great undertaking is done the Rio Grande Western will start out as fine traius as are run on any road in this or any other country. Its passenger equipment consists of the largest size coaches. They are from the St. Charles Oar works of St. Charles,' Mo. Besides the elegant double seats, with adjustable head rests, in the main body of tho car, there is a large smoking-room and lavatories for ladies and gents. The. inside trimmings trim-mings are of bronze, while the cars are lighted bV four large Pintsch gas burners, burn-ers, which are supplied from tanks under un-der the cars. The cylinders will hold gas enough to' make two trips from Salt Lake to Denver and return. ', " " ! The equipment at present consists of sixteen coaches, four combinations, eight baggago and eight mail and express ex-press cars. The passenger engines are from the New York Locomotive works at Rome, N. Y.j and weigh 170,000 pounds when tho tender is supplied with fuel and water. They havo six connected driving driv-ing wheels of iit'ly-four indies in diameter, diam-eter, being built especially for mountain moun-tain work. Tho freight engines ore from tho Baldwin works of Philadelphia, and are of tho consolidated pattern. They weigh 113,000 pounds without the tender, ten-der, havo 46-inch drivers and24x20-inch cylinders. There are about 550 freight, coal and stock cars, with an average capacity of 00,000 pounds each. For tho present all passenger and freight trattic will havo to bo transferred trans-ferred at Grand Junction, but arrangements arrange-ments have been made to havo as little delay as possible, and but little will occur. , |