| Show 1 ami allol 1101 ilion boils 4 railroad figure lit in an all address on oil the business of the london and railroading railroad ang I land a ild 1 recently delivered lei vered some figures are II 11 presented resented 1 that hat on oil account or of their magnitude are interesting that thai great railroad corpora tivit now lias hasa 1 capital or about or about tire the same saine capital ns tit hint it of oc the et extern erit group of railroads in it this country although tire latter ame nearly ten tell times a many miles of road the revenue of tile hie london and ami mortill northwestern estern is about annually it lias CO wo KIO servant 11 or as ab we ve would bay in this count country I y elul L eg 10 00 of 11 aiom join are emp employed loed in fit locomotive construction although tile llie road till all its bratic branches hes is very little lonzer than the he pennsylvania I 1 railroad with its leaded lines exila sive sivert of those est of pittsburg i act et the london and northwestern runs through such a populous country that it car cai ries annually passengers and tons of 0 height the compan owns 3 engines which i aich re Kiter giter a lilease annually of over miles nearly miles it a day art an hour or per minute tile engines collectively make a journey lit in lour four hours equivalent to that of 0 going round the N world orld mid arid so great fc 6 the var car laid and tear that one new engine has to be brought into ue ire scry lie dais these ate wonderful fl figures to be presented by it a single ingle railroad company only sixty years after the lie construction of the first locomotive and its ite introduction I 1 on oil railroads they are arc strongly suggestive I 1 of the po ible revolution to be brought brou glit about in nn ollier halt half century by the application p ot of electricity movement of t r ain t ledger |
