Sunbury American

The great Railway from St. Petersburg to Moscow, recently opened, is in nearly a straight line, and 400 miles in length. The track is double, of 5 feet gauge, and some of the bridges are elevated above the water from 125 to 175 feet. The bridges are of wood, on Howe's principle, and were built by Mr. R. O. Williams, of Connecticut. Major Whistler, of the Boston and Albany railroad, went to Russia in 1843, and was engineer of the work until his death. Then Major Brown, of the New York and Erie road, became engineer in chief, and finished the Russian road. The entire cost is stated at $20,000,000. The locomotives have also the stamp of American genius. They were built by Harrison, Winans and Eastwick, from drawings by Maj. Whistler, and are outside cylinder reverse engines, and are intended for burning wood. They are 162 in number, of which 42 are for passengers and 120 for freight. The passenger cars are built upon the American plan, and are 56 feet long and 9 broad. The two Imperial carriages are very magnificent, being 84 feet long by 10 broad, and 7 1/2 feet high, and supported on 16 wheels on the Bogie principle. These carriages have spacious apartments, furnished for the Emperor and Empress, separately, in the most improved and luxurious manner. They are fitted up with beds, and a kitchen car is attached, with larder, wine cellar and ice-house, &c. The road is to be run in fifteen hours. It used to take the diligence seventy-five hours, and wagons eleven days with freight. Boats by rivers and canals between the two cities make the trip in from fifty-five to sixty days, and frozen up half the time at that. Nicholas has caught a good deal of the progressive spirits of the age, and a railway from St. Petersburg to Warsaw, 796 miles long, is now strongly talked of.

—CLEVELAND HERALD.