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Show I AT THE HEAD OF ALL ROADS. The Union Pacific railroad was never in better condition for heavy traffic than at present and the outlook is that this fall the road will be tested to its capacity, as the freight and passenger business bus-iness already is heavier than the maximum of last year. Superintendent Jeffers of this division of the road has just returned re-turned from the east end where 80 miles of double track is being placed in service from Green River to Rawlins, leaving only 64 miles of single track between those points. This, with double track from Granger to Green River, makes the Union Pacific a vastly better equipped railroad than it was in 1907 when the congestion in traffic almost blocked the main line over the greater part of the road. Other improvements, such as the operating of trains by telephone tele-phone and the pulling of long freight trains by Mallet engines, have made the Harriman road out of Ogden one of the best railroads in the United States. In fact, railroad men of experience, are asserting assert-ing that the Union Pacific is getting traffic over its lines at a less cost per ton per mile than any road in the world. And we are inclined to accept that statement as correct, as the Union Pacific has undergone a greater transformation for the better in the last few years than any other transcontinental road. One of the latest additions to the railroad's facilities, the Mallet engine, has proved such a decided success that we predict those locomotives loco-motives will be doing all the freight hauling out of Ogden within two years. A test made by experts, which was concluded last week, proves that one Mallet engine of the articulated type, can pull more than two engines of the "200" class, which have been the ponderous engines of the road until made small by comparison with the 300-ton 300-ton leviathans. A day last week a Mallet engine pulled 1,750 tonB over th grades from Ogden to Evanston, while the combined maximum power of the "200" class does not exceed 1,660 tons. Progress of that kind has placed the Union Pacific in the lead of all roads. |
