Show i BIG ORDER FOR GARS iI I Rio Grande Western Will Add 491 Cars t I r MOSTLY FREIGHT EQUIPMENT One New Diner Ordered 40 Goodwin I Dumps 200 50Ton Steel 1000 Big Box CarsIncrease Capacity by 101000 TonsDetails of Equip inent Deep Creek Stage Now Runs From FailHold Many Changes Announced i An-nounced on the Pennsylvania System I Sys-tem Another Equipment Order j I I The Rio Grande Western has ordered I olO more freight cars In addition to the 350 more mentioned some weeks ngo I This makes 400 cars to be added to the I I equipment early in 1001 and the increased e in-creased capacity will he something like 101000 tons The latest order is with the Pressed Steel Car company and calls for 300 steel flat cars of 100000 1 pounds capacity 100 box cars 41 feet i I long of 80000 pounds capacity and 100 I flatbottom gondola cars of 90000 j pounds capacity These are for January Janu-ary February and March delivery respectively re-spectively The order placed with the American Car and Foundry company I forlOO box cars Is for January delivery I These cars will be 36 feet C Inches long I and will be equipped with American caststeel body and truck bolsters These last cars will have steel channel center sills caststeel draft lugs and tamcm spring draft rigging The fifty new stock cars arc to have all the latest lat-est devices for feeding and watering In transit and will be extra large The company has also ordered forty of the famous Goodwin steel dump cars which are economical for ballast and can be used as coal cars in the winter win-ter And last but not least ono more palatial pal-atial dining car has been ordered This will make four diners and one cafe car owned by the company The cafe car is atlll at Salt Lake out of service but a place will be found for It soon |