Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-04-03 | Page 3 | Railroads Plan Extensive Programs

t J i R PlAN EXTENSIVE rel PROGRAMS M r R r W Will Spent on n Betters Better Better- s ments m During 1923 t CHICAGO Returns S. ene third OS of nt the he mil ml la to the thew w i flUt States th that t th the r rail rail- tl- tl Wilt will Ap spend tt more mar than i for lor Improvements improvement und and a us dorine 1 1933 to th the x ollo stir Ar Age In Its Ita It annual report port on ont t 4 d condition Tw wren v n operating J r rI an aggregate o. o of oi KOOG mile mU or ar ap- ap t N one third of ot the tot total n I mU mileage ot of the country will spend pend more than tor for Improvements to roadway and 1 M and for tor new equipments equipment I says aya s th the Jep report rt It It may be assumed th the report adie adi M. M that an amount will willbe DP be spent nt b by th the remaining t two two- thirds third of th the e railways railway The significance cance ante of this Is La In the fact that In only one year during tb the last ten tn have bar the lit In ree records of th the interstate interstate inter Inter- state commerce shown an Increase In Investment In 11 road and equipment of ot this chis amount BIG DIG PROGRAM PLANNED oon This 5 hb m money will m 1 go 0 for tor new lines for tor second tra tracks track new yards and terminals fret freight bt and yd d 1 nger n er Matl stations n. n shops and soon equipment signaling ear cam And and other facilities that ma make u up D railroad rail rall- road equipment quIp equip aa as t the amount seems ms It Includes only those Ih er expenditure which have been definitely approved ap ap- ap- ap proved Many Nang fn other othu projects will h he undertaken flaring 0 the year r and th their lr to total 1 win n add much touch to the amount Locomotives ordered during UZ 1922 for tor service In the States to total totals to- to tal taa afoo a to th the Railway hallway A Ages Age's e es e's This is raw than ten ten tJ time Blues the figure reported in inI I nl 1991 Freight ears cars ordered during 1922 1 32 were 10 M. M the largest et total tn to an any Y year since Inee 1912 PENNSYLVANIA LEADS a aThe The most moat active roads thus far In to I vine equipment t expenditures for tor 1923 IUS are the Pennsylvania with the New York fork Central which carried over for 1923 00 of ot an appropriation of ot HO 0 In 1932 1922 and the Ix N bym which carried over o 10 of ot appropriations for tor U use uso this year yur out ot of the ap appropriated appropriated ap- ap late In 1922 1112 The Tho Illinois Central also allo has an Improvement ram pros on to the ex extent ox- ox tent of ot and tho Norfolk Nor Nor- f. f folk Ilk Wet Western m ot of J The Union n Pacific 1 la III s listed as M having haying hav hay ing approved spen expenditures for tor 1923 1823 to 10 The Tho report port states that a no large I part of ot these appropriations appropriation will goto goto go to 10 terminal facilities as 0 the these have o b h been n regarded as a. the limiting limiting- factor tn in fixing the capacity of ot tho the railroad rail rail- road It Is here that congestion first de and becomes comes most pronounced