Show V v um 4 t Z t i ak 12 2 4 0 41 1 aft 42 1 12 41 ROX 0 1 4 07 1 IM 41 i 1 I 1 I 1 W e S X 1 att Z vt 1 1 71 1 IV f N 1 I 1 i avida AM F i t al I 1 A I 1 1 10 U Z I 1 it 1 7 Z iw N 7 a Z DAY 1 9 C 1 p PI siv V Z 11 ASA I 1 E I 1 I 1 I 1 i 0 I 1 irs I 1 q 5 1 4 I 1 is ta I 1 I 1 tria 1 in ri motion latto ahll I 1 I 1 I 1 11 U za a ft the greater tho the spoof freight leht into V FOOT cla claner I 1 by railroad men an ordinary passenger car ar on ona a 1 steam railroad costs from tr af U to 1500 15 00 and weighs pounds or r nineteen teen tons A mail cir car which osta from 2000 to 2500 and is shorter orter by about one quarter than t the ordinary ord lujA T passenger coach weighs 32 pounds or sixteen tons A baggage car without the baggage in it weighs 2800 pounds or fourteen tons and costs about as much as a mall mail car A sleeping car ts Is more expensive than any of the others and it weighs a good deal more too A plain plinn simple tut but durable sleeping car with observatory attachments liter I 1 ary annex and culinary depart mit costs anywhere from to 20 oft the jhb average weight of a sleeping car is from twenty to twenty two tons A fall train in motion as a little figuring will show is no light affair the ordinary weight of the railroad locomotive fop passenger service inclusive of tender bender but not of fuel in the tender is forty tons one baggage car weighs fourteen tons and one mail car sixteen ions bringing up the weight of the locomotive emotive lo and the baggage and mail cars to seventy tons six passenger cars at an average of nineteen tons weight of baggage of the fuel carried and eight cars would be tons or pounds exclusive of the passengers and mall mail matter pulling tons along rails at the rate of fifty miles an hour or more is an achievement which lias bas not been easily brought about and the more the problem is studied the more clearly it is understood how far mechanical work on railroads has been pushed there were by the last figures reported 36 locomotives in use on the american railroads passenger cars and mail and baggage cars these figures seem large until compared with the number of freight cars on american railroads and then they seem insignificant sign tor for the number of freight cars in use is freight cars among the railroad men are divided into tour four classes flat cars such as are used for the transportation of stone machinery and lumber box cars such as are used for the transportation of grain fruit and ordinary merchandise stock cars such as are used tor for cattle and coal cars such as are used tor for the transportation of coal and oil those used tor for oil being supplied with tanks the average I 1 weight of a flat fiat or gun gondola dola car Is j seven tons the car costs from to box cars weigh a ton more and cost more each stock cars weigh eight tons each on an the average coal cars weigh three tons each it costs about to build coal or oil cars cam and they are designed to carry five tons apiece the weight of fifty coal cars is tons and of their contents if all filled tons which with locomotive and caboose added tva makes es tons as the weight of a train it may be added roughly that the weight of loaded trains passenger coal or freight ranges from to tons the lighter the train the greater the speed peed the railroad rule I 1 I 1 |