Show ROCK ROCH ISLAND BUYS HEA HEAVY VY EQUIPMENT With the ink hard hardly dry on previous contracts for equipment of the same character the Rock Rok Island lines hines are in inthe inthe inthe the market again this time for 2000 more freight cars ears and nine fifty locomotives tives This time lime as has been the case ease with other orders all aU the cars are to be built with steel frames throughout The purchase will wilI consist of box cars ears furniture automobile cars ears and tock stock cars all an of pounds capacity each and ballast cars ears of pounds capacity each The locomotive purchase comprises t twenty five Pa Pacific type passenger engines engines en en- gines and four thirty consolidation freight engines The Uhe passenger locomotives tives thes will be equipped with all the modera modern mod mod- ern era improvements including super super- heaters thus giving hin the fullest value valne to the steam venerated and the tIle best results results re re- suits from the fuel burned Each will weigh pounds pounds bein being on drivers The Thc freight engines will wiIl weigh pounds with pounds on t tile the e drivers This new hew purchase coming so closely on the heels of 01 others is is another indica indies tion of the determination of the Rock hock Island lines Jines to keep pace with the tIle business business business busi busi- ness prosperity of the country and to supply the shippers aIon along the system known k with enough to u the he cars of the art Vj best When en type this order is delivered it will wiIl give ve the road roada a very large amount of strictly new equipment not to mention the practically practically new cars ears being turned out of the repair shops |