New Railroad Movements. — The
Georges Creek and Cumberland rail
road engineers are surveying a nar
row-guage route from Yale Summit
to Dana Rock, and the News says :
Mr. Natlmn Loar, our gonial county
commissioner, who is engaged in success
fully running a line of vehicles from Pom
pey to the rock, has decided to begin
shortly the erection of a hotel near Hie
observatory, to bo ready for use next sum
mer. The exact design of the building is
not yet decided upon, but it will be largo
enough to accommodate a number of visi
tors. Mr. Loar bus d.scovcrcd and is now
improving a ("mo spring on the summit of
the mountain, about 850 yards Irom the
cliffs, near which the building will proba
b’y be located. Mr. Loar is a man of en
ergy and mtaus, and will doubtless furnish
excellent accommodations to those who
avail themselves of the fiuc scenery and
bracing air to be fouud on this lofty point.
A new passenger locomotive, weigh
ing forty tons, has been received by
the company and will shortly go on
the road. The time between Cum
berland and Lonaconing will be short
ened from an hour to forty-fi/e min
utes. It will be known as “No. 6."
The Times describes it as follows:
Tho driving wheels are fifty inches in
diameter. The cylinder is eighteen ia
dies, with iwenty-fonr-lnch stroke. The
engine has also the improved Wcsling
liouse automatic bmkc and is especially
designed to make quick time wi h perfect
safely over the steep grades and sharp
curves of this road ; hnuco the use of the
brake rofenod to, which is also attached
to the passenger cars, is self acting and
can be opened inside the c r if necessary.
