Show railroading IN AND OUT from fridays standard the holiday freight shipments are beginning and every day heavy ship ments for the local liue mess houses aro being received the oregon short line have made an open rate ocono fare for the round trip to salt lake the occasion being the meeting at the utah state teachers association which is to bo held on january and 2nd jtb and ap A B stevenson trainmaster for the oregon short line at pocatello idaho was in ogden a few hours between trains this morning the first D R G train agent to make his appearance at ogden since ho plan was adopted by the rio grande western some aweeka ago was seen at the depot last evening it is the intention in the near future to have train agents on all ot the overland passenger trains on the rio grande western and denver rio grande A new forty two inch plainer has arrived in the yards and will be installed in the local machine shops as soon as possible the plainer now in the shop is ot the same design but tho work was too heavy to be done by the one machine benca the new one the machine which has just arrived is the one that was on exhibition at the 61 louis fair andia modern in every respect firemen P A and 3 W banford of the southern have been instructed to report for examination and will be the next to bo pro rooted to the rank of engineer both of these men have lono their firing out of ogden and have received their railroad education on the southern pa cefic representatives of tha xetah railroads held a conference in salt lake city yesterday to consider the question of the issue 0 free transportation during the year 1906 details of the meeting were not given out the chairman of the meeting was A E welby general superintendent of the rio grande western george K smith chief clerk to general Sla nager bancroft waa elected secretary there general manager bancroft J A baeres general freight agent and his assistants F IL plaisted and C ira tuttle E buckingham general superintendent general passenger abent D E burley and his assistant si D S spencer representing the oregon short line railroad the san pedro los angeles and salt lake road was represented by district freight and passenger agent J L moore and gen geni i oral manager R E wells of los angeles also attended the meeting the rio grande western was represented by L A benton A E welby and 5 V dorrah the report that has gained wide circulation cu that the tons of OS pound elcel recently ordered by the pacific idaho northern road would bo used in extending the line to a point where it will connect with the northern pacific has been denied by superintendent erin E M heigho of that road it is a known fact that this road is a bone of contention between E H har riman and james J hill and owing to the fight for control is enjoined by the courts at the time from hold ing its annual meetings according to superintendent heigho the road has increased per cent in its earnings the past year and the population of the country through which it runs has also trenel in ahe part alre years the work on the big fort belen eat off on ano santa fe line in new mexico Is progressing rapidly and it is stated that construction work will be completed about jan 1 it wil be several months later however before limited trains will be operated over the BW ronia through new dexl co eventually tills cupoo will leduca the running time between los angeles ann to about 5 hours it is bated that 2000 men and halt as many teams are at in abo pass new mexico where the work ot overcoming the engineering problems has been going on for the past two years it sa estimated that the shortening of he anta rehne by way of the belen cuton cut on when completed will have cost the operation of the itea trains over the new line will cut out albuquerque one of alie most lm points on the present route the distance will be reduced 80 miles and alie highest mountain range on the santa fe lino will be avoided as well as the stretch of road which has caused the santa ve much trouble and delay the past few eara from washouts wa shouts the boston main railroad was authorized to issue tac tylear 4 per cent bonds by tho state railroad commissioners yesterday issue is to refund expiring bonds itt eluding six per cent east ern railway certificates of indebted ness five per cent central massachusetts bonds and ix per cent eastern railroad mortgage bonds information has been received to tha effect that the plans for the aaa passenger to be erected by the denver ria grande railroad have been submitted to the officials and with a few minor changes will be approved just what the plans call for w ds not given out but it Is understood that the building win be modern in evry inspect ic and will be used by the denver rio gande western pacific and burlington linea the west end of the present rio grande yards is tire scene of much activity several carloads of ties and rails have been stored waiting the time to begin laying for the new bards and houses are also being removed as gg possible the first of the week the machine shoy portion of alie browa fogu dry on twenty flat street was torn down |