| Show FLURRY HAS EFFECT ON CAR BUILDING C Cars and Locomotives es Built In Is s the title of an article In a R. recent number number number num num- ber of or the Railway Age Gazette Which In hit n p part rt follows To understand th the condition of the car and locomotive building business fully during the post past year It Jt Is necessary to study both tho the number numb r of orders placed for or equipment during this period and also the number built lh The or orders placed re reflect reflect reflect re- re both oth business conditions throughout the year 1 1903 1305 03 and and expectations of better conditions luring during 1900 1909 Tho The amount of ot equipment actually lI built hullt during the year e r. r on the other hand band shows only actual conditions conditions con con- conI I by hope of th the tho future since actual recovery of or business M start started too Late In the year to show In tho form of completed cars and locomotives The figures are also interesting in that they are arc compiled complied from returns from quip equip equipment ment building companies only and do not Include the tho output of ot railway com companies shops the operation of or which trough through th the year eRr hns has helped helped In n giving ln somewhat of or a n market for labor and m makers of railway railway rail rail- way s su supplies plies 1 In 1107 car r and locomotive builders work worked l at full capacity throughout tho the year par on orders placed in the early part of ot that year Bv By the thc fUr rid end of the y year ar however the full ful effects of the depres depression sion flon wore were being left an and com comparatively fow fol ow orders order were carried over o Into 1905 Last December officials of or representative their companies estimated that their orders on onh hand h hand nu would keep them bus busy at full ca capacity capacity ca- ca for from two to four months only Whore horo possible working time an and d forces Whore horo possible working time an and d forces were wert cut down so as to ke keep p plants running running run run- ning on part timo for tor A as lon long lone a I period 1 as 08 possible on nn completing such orders as could be delayed During the past year thirty ave n car build building InK companies in the United States and Canada built bunt cars cau which la Is n only 27 per Jer cent of or the number built bunt in 1907 These Thello fi figures ut g res s include o subway and elevated cars but but not street railway and Interurban n cars Of at the tho cars built in the United States wore freight cars carll for dome domestic tlc service 1206 freight for or export 1566 1565 passenger cars for fOl domestic tlc service and seventy one p for or export Canada built freight cars for Cor domes domes- dom domestic tic service five rr freight for export anc and seventy nine ps passenger cars for domestic service In 1907 Canada built freight cars and passenger cars The Tho following table shows the cars I built during the last ten years tarA Year Freight ht Passenger Total 1693 1839 1305 1900 1635 11 1901 1769 1360 2055 1902 1048 1948 1903 2007 7 1904 21 2144 2111 H 1905 2351 2551 10 1900 1 1907 Sni I 1908 08 1 1716 Includes Canadian output I I Returns from eleven locomotive builders in the tile United d States and C Canada nada shew a a. I total of 2342 engines about the same S m relative relative rela rela- I tive falling off as In the cars built Of the 2124 built In the United States 1668 wore were for domestic use and for fOl export These I figures Include electric and seventy seventy- nine compound locomotives locomotive The Canadian Canadian Cana Can dian engines wore were all for tor domestic service ef Of or these twenty were compound I |
