Show RAILROAD NOTES fred stoddard Is now call boy at the U P yard office james buckley station agent at corinne is in ogden today the union pacific headquarters at laralle are to be enlarged C P pruitt representative of the burlington was in ogden last night conductor W A cheek of the southern pacific has gone east on a conductor hale has been appointed extra passenger conductor on the southern pacific out of ogden bupt supt J S noble and assistant superintendent perin fitzgerald went west on a trip of inspection this morning II 11 B kooser of the salt lake office of the missouri pacific was in ogden today on his return from the east george J charlton general passenger agypt of the chicago alton was in ogden last night and went west to ay bupt supt parks of the wyoming division and H manning and assistant bupt supt parker went out on a special from ogden this morning to try engine 1507 the rio grande western earnings for the second week of december were an increase ot over the came week ot last year george of grand island neb has taken the position made vacant at the union pacific yard office by the promotion of wm taylor to night yardmaster fred H watt representing the general passenger department of the chicago northwestern was in ogden this morning he Is en route to the cm et on a visiting trip it Is stated that T E gibbon of the ios I os angeles salt lake road Is ex in salt lake this week to at t nd to the filing of corporation papers of that company the western union construction gang under superintendent symons has started operations on the new tele emph line from laralle to buford along the new road bed jesse alien foreman of the car shops at wadsworth is in ogden having come here to attend the funeral of his brother watter whose body arrived from colorado springs athla noon alce president stubbs of the southern pacific passed west last night he was travelling tra velling in a pullman with no companion and apparently the story that the new president charles M hays would be with him Is untrue that the union pacific contemplates a the erection of a wheel foundry and blast furnace at cheyenne has been conformed by advises advices from omaha in which it is stated that the directors ct the road at their annual meeting this mouth will take up tho matter and undoubtedly authorize and make an appropriation tor this important construction the union pacific has tried the experiment of casting the car wheels at omaha siut found the cost to be too great to warrant the establishment lish ment of the industry there and the conditions at cheyenne for iron fuel and flux were unusually favorable tor iron operations in connection with the big foundry blast furnaces will be the famous cascade tunnel of the great northern railway Is now open for t affia this three mile tunnel waa constructed from both ends at the same time and when the engineering crews met they were within a email fraction of an inch of the working out of the plans the feat being considered a remarkable one the train which left seattle today will be the first to pass through the tunnel that which left this city yesterday being the first liouns train to do so the new large ton engines will be used in the tun nel for the present using coal from crows nest pass which Is almost entirely free from sulphur and therefore well fitted for tunnel use later electricity will probably be used through the tunnel but the plans have not been perfected to that end the burlington engines running out of denver now have electricity nead lichts it Is the first time electric lights have been carried by engines running out of denver the entire burlington system Is soon to ba equipped the electric headlight turns the darkness of night into daylight by powerful reflectors and a light of high candle power the track la illuminated 30 that the engineer can see objects distinctly tor eighteen telegraph poles or halt a mile while the ordinary oil light enabled him to see indistinctly for only five poles or less than a sixth of mile in avoiding collisions and wrecks from damaged tracks the electric headlight Is considered by railway men the greatest improvement of the past twenty five years the engine carries a dynamo in front of the cab on the boiler power Is generated for six incandescent lights three in the cab and three in the head and signal lights |