Show I I i RAILROAD INFORMATION An officer of ot the St. St t. t lx Louis Lull S San Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco Investigating the telegraph service on the lines of that company estimates that tat more than third one of or the be tole- tole dc- dc t grams transmitted a arc unnecessary a and that the tho average g message ss erg contains 10 Jo per cent rent more words worda than ar are necessary iha In time the month of December last the five relay offices of the he road sent and l me- me railway messages end and re repeated repeated re- re g messages a apparently s are re counted once The The- 1 Man Frisco lo a rere re reporting f these facts prints a number of 0 examples exam exam- ples plea 0 oj allway messages which were wre two or throe three times longer than was noc- noc essa essary ry The railway across th the Isthmus of ot Tehuantepec Tehuantepec Te- Te last carried year across the Isthmus w wih th of 0 merchandise In shipments e s which om a at OP oi were destined for points r In the United I States The Panama a during the same i time o carried Sr o worth o originating ln In the tho States These o figures are arec given In a report from t the department of commerce c und and rf labor or The ed Tehuantepec t railway is 9 tulle miles long It was wan built mainly with t British rm capital fal Itu but ai is con con- government trolled rolled at least An in officer pal pail pait t. t of by the the tho Canadian Mexican Pacific tells a reporter o that he ha 1 expects to toi l ship wheat to Europe ope over time the Tc- Tc e railway w lie has baa recently lJ visited J vis vis- Mexico and expects that the tho railway will I l build grain transferring houses c v the Pacific mc and the Atlantic r i g terminal ar Lines Lints of Ite already running h. h tween Vancouver and could conveniently take tako wheat to the tho tepee tepec road The I proposed wheat s ship ship- ments menta are nrc to to h be made f r from A Alberta l. l Calgary Calgary Cal Cal- gary the h principal city on the Canadian n Pacific In npr Alberta g Is about o 6 miles U I east from tho the Pacific coast S S S The Wisconsin Central has h. h ordered tons of S structural steel for b bridge l c construction con cnn ct n nS from ur tho tito Wisconsin Y o rn Bridge e and d Iron company The buY Wabash terminal litis hns ordered order SOO ton fifty ton SI self cl cleaning hopp hopper r bottom gondola cars c.-ars' c. from the time Standard Steel Car Cr company These Thes' Thes cars car will wi weigh approximately approximately- pounds and antl will wi be 30 feet long 6 P feet 5 51 5 Inches wide and 6 feet teet 10 incItes inches hl high h. h inIde measurements mesa meas a and 31 feet 6 S Inches s long Jong me- me mea ten tm-n feet wide and ill 10 eAt feet l' l nigh over all r s Th The steel leel bodies bies and anI will wi be of I The Pennsylvania railroad I roa reports reports' that thai on Its t Pittsburg division in the time month of March 92 per cent of ot Its It passenger trains reached the end ena of their runs on time On the whole western Pennsylva Pennsylvania ala nia grand gand division whore Where trains trin were run 95 91 per cent e reached destina s tion o on uni time 98 lee le len per e cent n made their schedule speed peed having begun their trip on the division n be behind belind time Pensacola ola Mobile k New Orleans Orleans- Work has ha begun on an extension to MO- MO bile bie Ala AJa AI 8 about but fifty t miles lle l Pennsylvania System The System The record of 0 the mileage of the road on December 31 1908 1901 r shows that the total length of the nt tle li main I line J on the lines east of t b band and Erie Erl I is miles mies with 1823 13 miles mie of second track miles mies of third track miles mies of fourth track and miles of 21 mils mil's sidings a 1 total of mies miles There was wn I an Increase during 1908 laos of 20 miles mUes of ot first track 26 miles mits mit's of if second track 2 25 21 miles of third track miles mies of fourth track and 21 miles of sidings 2 mits a total In Increase increase In- In crea crease of 80 SO mie miles On the tit lines line west of f first track the 1192 mileage miles tF of Is t 2914 2314 second n miles track k of 83 miles mies of third thir track 87 37 miles milts of fourth track and 2307 miles mits of sidings a total mileage of 8 Outing During sidings the year vear a there g was an 1 Increase r of 5 I miles of first I track 9 miles mils of second track 7 miles mile of third thir track 2 23 miles mies of or fourth track mits mit's and 25 mie miles of sidings a total Increase of 47 milis' milis mi The mileage of the Vandalla andalia railroad is First I track 92 Oza miles second sec ne-c- mies IC- IC end ond track 82 miles third track 8 85 miles and sidings 63 miles mies a total of 1659 1669 miles mIle crease o of During 19 r n of the a mile f year a of f theis first t t track was wan k an 1415 l In increase in- in 5 miles mies of second track miles of third track and 56 miles of 0 sidings making a total Increase of 2534 34 miles making The grand total of all al lines Including mies those thO op operated by and associated In Interest with the lie Pennsylvania o railroad Is 11 miles of first frat track mites miles of second 1235 track 18 miles mils of third track ml miles of f fourth track r and miles mits mit's of sidings lhor a total g of 2397 miles r Of this ml mites miles s of first track are ar e and aM ml mIles mile are west wes o of or PI Pt Unhurt brg and ln an Erl Erie The legislature of North orth Carolina has lias hal passed to be used a law on ru requiring all road 1 locomotives electric I headlights within lf four years year The law la specifies an eler ele ell I tri irk irk- o or 0 power headlight of at least 1500 candle power measured without the time al all 11 l I of a reflector r. r Of the engines ln of any company not noC now equipped IP one fourth flo I must rp have the lights by b April Apri 1 1 1910 one the next year ear one fourth the next not and an an all H by April Apri 1 1 I. 1913 The law does for switching not apply Iy nor to ft engines to those regularly nie used only used use in the day time nor to engin engines going to shops for repairs repaint A An p engine may finish I. I Its trip notwithstanding th the th unavoidable disablement b 0 of It Its headlight 1 I if the light was In good condition 1 when the h engine I started a out A further exception Is made of North Carolina I r roads independently I owned owe operating 12 mie mIles mile or I lees le M and of ot roads rs outside th the state stat tat which operate only oly 10 miles In North further furher the corporation commission In I It its discretion may make mak exceptions Violation of the I law Is a misdemeanor Olahoma Oklahoma Union Traction Incorporated rated In Oklahoma hO with h capital to te build from hOpI Sapulpa pIh J Okla rO northeast o C li toss tosa tO twenty miles pI The estimated d cost ct line of the lne Is The Pennsylvania lines linen west lt are ar- ar arIn In the market for 1100 tons tos of structural steel for track elevation ele in n Chicago The The- Pennsylvania Tunnel S a Terminal company is said to ha have ordered to f tons Steel Stel of company conductor r rails from froum the Cambria ia O |