Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-12-05 | Page 16 | D. & R. C. Officials Drive Locomotive

D1I110FFIK DK0M9TI Parly of Salt Lakers See DoubleTrackin and other Improvements. The innuageinciit of the Denver & Ifio Grande railroad yesterday was host lo a jHirty of Salt Lake, men on u trip over M10 new work Imiup douo by the i:oni-nuy in Utah. Tin; trip was pro-Posed pro-Posed bomu liiiiu' ago hy K. 'h. JJrown,' vice president of the Denver & liio Grande, and it. was under the direction of A. 13. Appcrson, general superintendent superintend-ent of tho Jiues ot iho company in i Utah. Mr. Appcrson 'a private car "Wa-j satf !i - carried the party, going from Kaltv Lake lo Soldier Summit as a part of the second suction of No. G, leaving hero nt S:-I: o'clock vesterday morning. .From . Soldier Snnfnnt the-party the-party was taken over the now work and then brought back t0 Salt Lake City, arriving here at JO o'clock hist night. Fifty miles of double track that aro being constructed between Helper and Thistle, and the detour around- Soldier Summit, were tho principal works inspected. in-spected. The travelers ate Jnneheon 011 win car at rustic Uate, which is the tarthesl; point from Sail. Tiako that was visited. From Castle Gate the partv ro-tnnied ro-tnnied 1)3" easy stages over the line. The Utah "on.sl.ruetion company now lias four camps along the fourteen and llu-cc-qiuirt'ers miles of the detour and will hiive others there soon. Also with; m about a week the compnnv expects to Have nineteen steam shovels at work there in order lo finish tho work as soon as possible. Men are busv all along the lino, apparently every effort being made to out down Ihc" "iade and got in the double track at tno earliest possible pos-sible date. The last ten miles of the return trip to Sull Luke was made especially interest inter-est ing from the fact that General Superintendent Su-perintendent Appersou held the throttle 0! tho engine that brought in Iho .special .spe-cial from .Mid vale, while N. A William.'., Wil-liam.'., superintendent of Iho' Utah division o I the road, shoveled the coal. The engineer ami fireman had been 011 duty for fifteen hours and fifty. five minutes when the train reached Mii vale ami the sixteen hour law made it imperative lhat someone else tuh the train the remaining ten miles lo .Sail Lake City, The superintendents invited the engineer and fireman to ride into the city in the private car whilo they took charge of the engine. In the parly making the trip were the two Htiporinlendonts, S. Ar. J.lcrrah, ansislant general freight agent for the company; A. IT. Christeuscn of tho I; tali Construction company; L. 13. Fiirman. engineer" in charge of tho" work inspected: JJarrv Shiplcr S P Dobbs and Walter J. Sloan ' '