Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-05 | Page 13 | $28,000,000 Spent by Road

OO ROAD I Santa Fe Has Purchased I 89 Locomotives es in Year I TOPEKA Kan Dec 5 New 5 New purchased by the Atchison Atchison Atchi- Atchi son Topeka R Santa Fe railroad during 1923 will amount to it was announced at the general general general gen gen- eral offices today toda nine Eighty locomotives lo locomotIves locomotives lo- lo freight cars and 1 5 worth of miscellaneous cars are Included in the tho ho purchases Additions and betterments to 10 the railway plus new equipment will w bring the roads road's expenditures for tor improvements to to approximately 1 was as stated Pl Plans ns are aro under consideration for tor adding 22 23 worth of oC new rolling rOiling stock next year and expending for tor improvements throughout the system stem It t is understood Twenty-six Twenty of ot the locomotives de delivered delivered delivered de- de livered this year weigh pounds each and have ten drive wheels Hauling a car 18 freight train W was 1 described as an an easy task for such engines or for any of oC forty- forty five other locomotives of ot a dIfferent different different differ dIffer- ent type which the road placed in service this year Purchases In Included include included in- in I clude ten Pacific type engines eight mountain type forty five mikado mi mi- I kado type and twenty-six twenty Santa Fe special freight SI Six Sid million dollars worth of second second second sec sec- sec sec- ond track is under consideration for 1924 and a bridge across the Mississippi river at Fort Madison Madison Madison Madi Madi- son la Ia is to be erected