Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1900 — THE RAILROADS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE RAILROADS

Fourteen new dining cars are being delivered tb the Santa Fc road. The Soo line will soon add three giant freight engines to its rolling stock. A new electric road is being built between Lima and Minster, Ohio. It will be thirty miles long. Ten locomotives for the Cape railway in Africa will he shipped by an Eastern firm in a few days. The new steel bridge of the Lake Shore road over the Sandusky bay at I remont, Ohio, has been finished. Net earnings of the CajiaiUnn Pacific for September decreased $88,18.) from those of the preceding year. Net earnings of the Milwaukee and St. Paul for September were $1,240,989, an increase of $30,601 over last year. Grain rates from Chicago to the principal Atlantic coast cities have been advanced on an average of 2'/j cents per 100 pounds. Work of double tracking the Northwestern between Cola and Carroll, lowa, n distance of eighty-six miles, will be started early in the spring. Live stock business on Western roads presents a new condition this year. Cattle shipments are said to be considerably lighter, but the shipments of horses are said to more than offset the shortage. A great many bronchos are being taken east. A new device for the Consumption of smoke given off by locomotives has been invented and tried to the satisfaction of several expert*. It is claimed to be a perfect smoke consumer, Irrespective of the moving or landing position of locomotives. The cost of equipping nn engine with tbe device is said to be $25.