RAPID RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 69, 21 March 1878, Page 4

RAPID RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION.

Mr J. Rowland, Division Engineer of the Philadelphia and Atkuiio City Railway, writes to the Railroad Gazette : — It may be interesting to your professional readers fo see this report of the most rapid railway construction on record. The Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railway ia fifty-five miles in length. Ground was broken about April let, 1877, and the first train was run over tbe road July 7th. The deepest cut is 30 feet, deepest fill 35 feet ; largest single excavation, 40,000 cubic yards ; embankment, 30,000 cubic yards. An embankment of 23,000 cubic yards, 1800 feet long, was made in oue week from the date of its commencement. The methods of coDßtrucliou are original with the officers of the roaH, and are of considerable interest to the profession. Five miles of track were laid out in oue day. There are over 100 bridges and culverts ; aggrogate length of three loosest, 1300 feai, one of tbem with 100 feet draw. The trial trip waa made July 7ih, 1| miles beiog Ip.id on that day io advance of the train, deinyiog it two hours. The road haa 44,000 feet of wharf in Camden, bui!?, iv two months, and haa for Us depots, offices, and exoutsion house, Centennial buildingß, koown aa Centennial Commissioners' Building, La Fayette Restaurant Board of Finanoe Building, Centennial Bink Building, Car Annex to Machinery Hall. The equipment of the road is eight locomotives, forty-four passenger coaches, sixty freight cars. Gauge Z\ feet. Average cost of grading, 10 cents per cubic yard of excavation Bnd embankment. Total cost of construction and equipment, 770,000 dolhrs . The line ia as yet incomplete, but when brouglt to grade and completed according to engineer's plan, it will be equal to any road in the United States for safety, speed, aud comfort. T. F. Warts, consulting engineer, constructed the road B nd organised the train force. Eight trains a day — four of tbem opposed—were run under hia government before the erection of telegraph line, at a speed of twenty miles per hour, and with no great detention. The telegraph line is now in working order, aud superintendent appointed. Trains run through in two hours with no stops. A single train bas carried 2,300 passengers each way. When we see trains of twenty-nine passenger cars running ata speed of thirty mileo per hour, over a line of fifty-five miles in length, which was commenced less than four months ago, the rapid stride of railway progress is manifest. The engineer corps were employed night and day, sixteen hours being an average day's work for the consulting engineer.— [Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine].

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