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Show RAILWAY BREVITIES. Engineor Charles Rogers has been with' the Erie road forty years. The Big Four has bought the St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute for (10,000,000. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad is making experiments with an electric au-tomatio au-tomatio signaling device. William Sullivan, who was for thirty years a section boss on the New York Central between Lockport and Orange-port, Orange-port, died at Lockport, N; Y., recently. Railroad managers in Pittsbnrg are talking of charging an admission fee of one cent to the platform of the Union station in that city, giving ticket holders hold-ers the privilege of going out to the trains an hour before they start. A construction company of New York estimates that a mile of railroad laid with wooden ties and stone ballast costs $11,077, while the same stretch of steel ties with gravel ballast will cost but $11,055. While the cost of tho steel is more than double that of wood, that of gravel is less than stone.' A solid train of canned fruits parsed over the Burlington from San Francisco through to Chicago early in September. It was composed of twonty-one cars, and ran at an average rate of thirty-five miles an hour. It was the first solid train of canned goods that ever crossed the continent. The Reading railroad has purchased the Union canal, which extends from Reading to Middletown, Dauphin county, coun-ty, Pa., a distance of eighty miles. No boats have traversed the canal for ten years, and it has fallen into a very dilapidated di-lapidated stato. What the railroad company com-pany will do with it is not known. The canal cost $1,000,000 to build seventy-five years ago. |