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Show Value of a Passenger Train. But few persons who view a passenger train as it goes thundering past have an idea that it represents a cash value of from $75,000 to $120,000, but such is the case. The ordinary express train represents repre-sents from $83,000 to $90,000. The engine en-gine and tender are valued at $10,500; the baggago car, $1,000; the postal car, $2,000; the smoking car, $5,000; two ordinary ordi-nary passenger cars, $10,000 each; three palace cars, $15,000 each-total, SBtf.WU. Many of the trains which pull up to or out from the Union depot in this city are worth $150,000. St. Louis Republic. |