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Show Great Dcvclonment In Railroad Work... Thousands of cars are now being ordered or-dered by tho transportation lines. One - .order has just leon placed for iO.OW cars for the -Pennsylvania lines west o Pitts- 1 bru-g. The Cninn Pacific has ordered ; 6.0U0. tho Missouri Pacific 8,0W. the Baltimore and Ohio 4.000. the Hock- : lug Valley and the Ingalls syndicate1 2,000 each, aud the New York Ceutral 8,000. This seems to show tho general advance in railroad interests over two or : throe-years ago, when un order for 1,000' cars was considered a tremendously large one.' Tho quality of steel aud iron used In cur building has been improved, in-1 creasing the capacity of freight curs by ' 800'per cent. Vhilo many of the old teu ton cars are still in uso, tho majority of he specifications call for thirty ton cars. aN-w York Commercial Advertiser. |