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Show Uoaitar Locomotives. Superintendent McConnell, of the motive lepartment of the Union Pacific, seems to 6e well satisfied with the work of engine 1700, which is doing duty on trains 1 and 8 between Laramie and Cheyenne, and plans have been made at the Omaha shops for the construction of engine 1701, which will be somewhat heavier than the 1700. The 1700 weighs 254,000 with her load of coal and water. Headlight Flashes. The Southern Pacific firemen have a frievance. It Is relating chiefly to the long ours of work demanded on the southern division. It is practically certain that the often revived re-vived report of a consolidation of the Balti-mere Balti-mere & Ohio and the Ohio & Mississippi will soon come to pass. The officials of the Baltimore Balti-more & Ohio Southwestern are scheduled to extend their jurisdiction over the consolidated consoli-dated aystem. The Erie has withdrawn from business to the Grand Army reunion rather than engage In the general scramble at ruinously low rates. The Missouri Pacifio denies the report that It 'Will run over the Union Pacific instead of the Denver & Rio Grande. They say they will continue to use the Denver & Rio Grande tracks into Dearer. The Western Passenger association makes a round-trip rate of a fare and one-third to the dedicatory exercises of the Worlds fair next month, within a radius of 350 miles of Chicago, and a one-fare rate outside of that distance. Every iadication point to the failure of the schedule proposed to the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern road by the Order of Railway Telegraphers. |