Salt Lake Herald | 1890-07-09 | Page 2 | Incidental Expenses of Railroads

Incidental Expenses Railroads The New York Central is renumbering ill its locomotives of which it has over eight hundred Those Iron 1 to 219 will be switching engines from 250 to 700 will be freight engines and all above the latter number will be passenger engines Prom the distribution of the numbers it is a simple sim-ple deduction that tho assumed proper proportion pro-portion of switching engines to actual hauling haul-ing engines is as 250 to 450 or 1 to 18 which is not far from the actual average proportion propor-tion and illustrates how many expense there are in handling traffic which the pub lic rarely thinks of