| Show EQUIPMENT I BY UNION UNI l PACIFIC RY KY CO The enormous expenditures by the for tor purchasing purchasing railroads of thi country ing new equipment nt and for providing other facilities to furnish that class of transportation service essential to the welfare of the agri- agri agricultural agricultural agri agricultural cultural manufacturing mining and other industries of of the country areto are oreto to be continued to In 1926 This b is an indication of th the determination of oft meet the re- re re requirements t these railroads olds lb fo fp fully of t tt tHc a situ situation tion The Union Pacific System is one oi of the foremost respect and has an nn expenditure a of approximately approximately nine ant an and one-half one million dol- dol dollars dol dollars lars lard for the purchase of new equip equip- equipment equipment ment alone fO fot delivery durin during the first half of th year ear The purchase includes 15 70 ft all steel coaches 10 70 ft steel all baggage cars 10 83 ft all all- all teel observation cars f 5 83 ft all steel all dining cars u 5 70 It ft steel all all teel passenger ser ser- serice service ser service vice ice ho horse se cars 2 69 GO ft IL steel all al alste ste 1 mail baggage cars 1000 Steel Steel convertible con con- convertible con convertible ballast bars ars 1000 50 60 ft all automobile cal cars The locomotives will cost more than each a and d are arc designed for fast freight service e The observation cars will cost approximately ap- ap approximately ap approximately proximately each and arc are to tobe tobe tobe be used in continental trans tra continental limited trains There will ill be a number of chan changes es in the 11 design of these cars for th the of increasing the comfort of the patrons ns of the road if n that mat is is poss bli There mere will will oe be be sep sep- sep separate separate arate lounge rooms rooms for men and wo- wo women women wo women men with tub a and d l shower baths Improvements nave ave also been made in the dining car with increased fac- fac facilities facilities fac facilities for servings reate greate of people The card cari cars are slightly larger three eighty than earlier designs being eighty eighty- three feet in length Each car will cost approximately The new coaches s embody structural and mechanical improvements as well lS as scats seats of improved comfort and cost approximately each The ten new seventy foot teel bag bag- baggage baggage gage age cars included in the order will cost each The new hors horse cars are express cars of steel construction specially equipped with b box x stalls and other particularly conveniences an and are designed parti parti- for shipment of race horses and roping and b bucking eking horses which are valued throughout throughout hout the west on a apar apar apar erlin par with racing stock and are u used erl in the many ro 10 eos cos now being held at various town towns in the west Five of these have ha been purchased at acost acost a cost of approximately each c cars cars rs are for handling gravel gravely crushed rock md and other materials used in railroad con con- construction construction con construction as wall w well ll as coal sugar beets and similar similar commodities These purchase cars cost 2700 each 2700 each and the pur- pur purchase pur purchase chase of 1000 of o them then represents nn an investment of One thousand new automobile cai forthe costing sting jach ach for the entire order are being purchased to fo transport thet the greatly increased number l um r of automobiles moving movine over cars are arc of solid steel t I construction very staunchly built special fac- fac facilities facilities fac facilities for loading unloading and the safety of motor yrs errs in transit They are proof fire-proof proof bu proof buglar-proof proof lar-proof and virtu virtu- virtu- virtu virtually virtually ally indestructible indestructible The new equipment to be purchased is not for replacing c existing sting cars and locomotives but ii ij for increasing the transportation facIlities of the Union Pacific so that Hut it may efficiently carry its share of the t rapidly mounting trans continental freight and passenger passenger passenger ger traffic fD f D S SprNCER General Passenger Agent |
