The Willimantic Journal

—The pick and shovel brigade is making radical changes about the depot yard, and their operations are superintended by a large number of local bosses. The changes include the laying of two more tracks across Depot street, which as a matter of course, will make the approach to the passenger depot more dangerous than ever, while the removal of freight from the New London Northern freight house, will be attended with nearly as much peril as a voyage to the Arctic regions. Several additional side tracks are being put in, and the gothic freight-house of the late H. P. & F. R. R., has been started from its anchorage, and piloted down near Depot street.

—The New York & New England road had a force of fifty or sixty men at work Sunday, in the depot yard, changing tracks, etc. A gang of bridge repairers were also engaged in leveling up the bridge on the Providence branch. The old New York and New England car-house has been moved several feet north, and is being converted into a freight depot, while the H. P. & F. R. R. freight building is to be moved east on a line with Depot street, and will be used for a freight office. The first train over the road by the new time schedule, was the Boston and Washington express, which passed through here at 9:15 last evening, and was made of a sleeper, two passenger and a baggage car. The road from this village to Providence is now a branch, no trains going through from Hartford, but passengers changing cars here.