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Show TELLS Of S. P. IMPROVEMENTS Julius Kruttschnitt Writes of Improved Service Con templated j Various improvements are In store I for the southern Pacific system, ac ! cording to Julius Kruttschnitt, chairman chair-man of the executive committee, who recently completed a tour of the road, 'if the total improvements the work being done on the Lucin cutoff Is one of the many to be completed, the work on this undertaking alone to total more than 1 1 ,000,000. In th( September Sep-tember Issue of "The Bulletin. ' monthly month-ly publication of the Southern Pacific, Pa-cific, Mr. Kruttschnitt says: DISPOSE OF XOTKS. 'The Southern Pacif cbrapan; hai sold $1 5,000,000 worth of trust eq lip ment notes, being two-thirde of the value of the estimated cost of equlp-mi equlp-mi Dl totaling 129,500,000, The Pa-i Pa-i If lc Fruit Express company, of which It is one-half owner the Union Pacific-owning Pacific-owning ihe other half, has sold notes In connection with the construction of -10" u i. frigerator cars costing in round figures $16,000,000. "The Southern Incif lc equipment i ordered Includes 70 locomotive. 540u freight cars, 50 steel passenger car and 140 electric cars. Perhaps the number of freight cars can be visualized visual-ized when it le stated that they would I make up one train over forty miles I long Much of this equipment Is being be-ing built at our shops at Houston, Sacramento Sac-ramento and Los Angeles, and many of the refrigerator cars are to be built i in the Pacific Fruit Express shops at i Rosevllle and Colton. I The additions and betterments to i our properties Include the replacing by 90 pound rails on our main line of rails of lighter weight; extensive ballasting, bal-lasting, the use of our new sandard ties, 7x10x8, in place of smaller ties; ih addition of long hidings over the Siskloue and the Sierra Nevada to facilitate train movements the creation crea-tion of larger terminal facilities w herever her-ever needed, including shop additions, new roundhouse, etc No new financing finan-cing is contemplated in connection ulili this work at this lime LOADING Alts. "At the very best it will be some time before all the- new equipment ordered can be placed, in service in this connection 1 would like to urge upon all concerned with the movement f freight ihe great desirability of loading cars to the maximum and promptness In loading and unloading. Foi our part we will Uo all we can to gel them over- the road quicklv. Good teamwork along this line would provide pro-vide the equivalent ro at least 200,000 cars io the country's .supply. May I further suggest thai it is directly' jn the public interest ihai (hi.-, effort be sustained unabated at all times in order or-der to avoid making unnecessary Investments In-vestments in equipment. The shippers ship-pers have to carry the burden through Increased freight rate. necessary to give return thereon prescribed under the milway transportation act of 1920." |