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Show FIVE TRACKS ARE TO BE ' BUILT FIVE TRACKS GTe... IMPROVEMENTS IN THE YARDS ARE ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. ( Too Many Passenger Trains , for the Trackage Engineer Campbell Visits His Old Home. A. Q. Campbell, resident engineer of the Southern Pacific and Oregon Short Line systems at Ogden, left Wednesday night to visit old friends at Des Moines, Omaha. Kansas City and Denver. He will be absent ten days and will then return to commence com-mence active operations In New York already mapped out and approved by those in authority. Mr. Campbell has personal charge of all track work and new Improvement's at Ogden and expects ex-pects to begin the construction of five new tracks for passenger train service at the big Union Depot here as soon as he returns from his brief vacation. va-cation. Plans for this work are already al-ready made and are now before Vice-President Vice-President Kruttschnilt for final approval. ap-proval. This is expected during the next week or ten days, and work will then be inaugurated and pushed to completion without delay. The additional tracks are badly needed at this time, and only clever work on the part of Yard master Dick Pierce and his switching crews pre- vents a congestion of passenger trains at the depot at this time. Since the new time card went into effect ef-fect last Sunday morning, as many as n dozen passenger trains arrive and depart from the passenger depot in a single hour during certain periods pe-riods of the afternoon, and to get these out on time and care for each train as it arrives Is a puzzling proposition for local operating officials. offi-cials. The new Rio Grande time card, which goes into effect next Sunday morning, will make conditions even worse than at present, and In order to handle this great and increasing business busi-ness satisfactorily, five new tracks are absolutely necessary and must be constructed with unnecessary delay. |