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Show RMLWAY RUMBLES. The pi-oject of the French Trnnsahariau railway is again agitated. The Columbian passenger committee has decided to have no union ticket office on the Chicago exposition grounds. President Barnard, of the Oljio and Mississippi, Mis-sissippi, predicts that in ISifcJ the road will show the largest earnings in its history. It is reported that the Chicago and Alton will put on a genuine fast train between 8t. Louis and Chicago, making few stops, doing very little way business and cover ing the distance in seven hours. The Atchison, Topeka and Sauta Fe is now the greatest railroad system in point j of mileage in the world, covering (J,Vi7 i miles of main line, 7,114 miles of which be-! be-! longs to the Atchison proper, tho remain-1 remain-1 der being leased roads. The Pennsylvania Railroad company an-, nounces that hereafter all passenger train, will be withdrawn from the Treuton ciith off between Norristown and Alorrisyilln. . The company will use the connect inj'Jink exclusively for freight traffic for tA.'-' pre ent. President Ingalls contemptfttos mukins the new World's fair trains between Chicago Chi-cago and Cincinnati, leayhig each terminal at midday, solid trainthrough to Washington, Wash-ington, running over, the Chesapeake and Ohio, between Cincinnati and Wellington. Welling-ton. Kvery year makes the heatm of cars by etenm mope successful. The experieaceof every atU speil overcomes new difficulties relating todetails of the apparatus. It is very" seldom now that we hear of any one qucitjfinini the fact that the deadly stove 'ittnist go. The smallest railway in tho -world is from Rnvetiglass to Boot, in Cumberland. The gauge is three feet, the engine an absurd ab-surd little thing and the carriages like miniature cages. As to the stations, they resemble double bathing boxes more than, anything else. |
