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Show RAILROAD BREVITIES. John W. Young, son of Brighani Voting, is presidont of tho Utah Central I r;J:-oad. j Governor Carillo, of the state of Chihuahua, in Mexico, is arranging for tho construction t.f a narrow gauge rail road from Chihuahua to Guymas, on the Pacific coa.st. Experiments are now in progress to test the geological structure of the sea Ltd upon which it is proposed to construct con-struct the railway bridge across the English En-glish channel. The number of employes on all tho railroads of tho counirf amounts to 700,-000. 700,-000. Th"rearo 1,518 different railroad corporations, and the total mileage of these railroads is 1.10,400 miles. fcxtensive experiment with an electric elec-tric locomotive search liht which would enable an engineer to see obstructions on the track half a mile away have been made on one of tho eastern roads. An air brake instruction train, which has been making a tour of the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania Southwest lines, recently completed com-pleted its long run on the Pittsburg division, di-vision, 4,000 trainmen having received instruction from it The railway mail service of the United States has during the, past two and a half years been increased at a most wonderful won-derful rate. Fully 23,500 miles of new road wero added. The greater number of new routes w vx he wia-t. V |