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Show COST OF KAIL CABS. DAY COACH IS AS EXPENSIVE AS A FINE HOUSE. What Train In Motion Weighs The Lighter It Is tha Clrrnter tlio Hneed Freight Cars DltlUed Into Four Classes t7 lUllroad Mon. An ordinary passenger car on n steam railroad costs from R090 to $5,000 nnd weighs 38,000 pounds, or nineteen tons. A mall car, which costs from $2,000 to $2,000 and Is shorter by about one-quartor than tho ordinary passcngor coach, weighs 32,-000 32,-000 pounds, or sixteen tons. A baggage bag-gage car without tbo baggage In It weighs 28,000 pounds, or fourteen tons, and costs about as much as a mall car. A sleeping car is more oxpen-slvo oxpen-slvo than pny of the others nnd it weighs a good deal moro, too. A plain, simple but durablo sleeping car, with observatory attachments, literary liter-ary annex and culinary department, cosU anywhero from $10,000 to $2' 000. Tho averago weight of a sleeping car Is from twenty to twenty-two tons. A full train In motion, as a ltttlo figuring figur-ing will show, is no light nffalr. Tho ordinary weight of tho railroad locomotive loco-motive for passengor service, Inclusive of tender but not of fuel in the tender, Is forty tons. Ono baggage car weighs fourteen tons nnd one mail car sixteen six-teen tons, bringing up tho weight of tho locomotlvo and tho baggage and mall cars to seventy tons. Six passenger pas-senger cars at an avorago ot nineteen tonB, weight of baggago, ot tho fuel carried nnd eight cars would bo 181 tons, or 368,000 pounds, exclusive of tho passengers nnd mall matter. Pulling Pull-ing 181 tons along rails at tho rato of fifty miles an hour or moro Is nn achievement which has not been easily brought about and tho moro tho problem prob-lem Is studied tho moro clearly It Is understood how far mechanical work on railroads has beon pushed. There were by tho last figures reported 30,-000 30,-000 locomotives In use on tho American Ameri-can railroads, 20,000 passenger cars nnd 8,000 mall and baggago cars. Those figures scom large until compared with tho number of freight cars on American Ameri-can railroads, and then tboy seem insignificant, in-significant, for tho number ot freight cars In uso Is 1,250,000. Freight cars nmong tho railroad men aro divided Into four classes flat cars, such as aro used for the transportation of stono, machinery and lumber; box cars, such as aro used for the transportation transpor-tation of grain, fruit and ordinary merchandise; stock cars, such as aro used for cattle, and coal cars, such as nro used for tho transportation of coal and oil thoso used for oil being supplied with tanks. Tho average wolght of n flat or gondola car Is seven tons. Tho car costs from $300 to $100. Dox cars weigh a ton moro nnd cost $100 moro sach. Stock cars weigh eight tons enc on tho averago; coal cars weigh threo tons each. It costs about $200 to build coal or oil cars, and thoy nro designed to) carry Ave tons nplcco. Tho weight of fifty coal cars Is 1C0 tons, nnd of their contents, con-tents, It all filled, 250 tons, which with locomotive nnd cabooso added, makes 420 tons ns tho weight of a train. It may ho added, roughly, that tho wolght of loaded trains, passenger, coal or freight, ranges from 200 to CS0 tons. The lighter tho train tho greator tho speed; that's tho railroad rule. |
