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Show 1 t 1 1 -... USED HAILS 11RIXG SAME PRICE ' AS WHEN NEW Tho high prlco of steel may bo said to havo wiped out the depreciation which resulted from 26 years' use of tho rails In an electric car lino, running out from Tacomn, Wash. This fact was brought out a fow months mon-ths after tho company began to Improve Im-prove four miles of its track with now and heavier rails. Tho old 40 lb. rails were torn up and stored in tho yard of the company. Since tho war began somo 260 tons havo been sold to logging companies for $7,800, which is $30 per ton or Just what they cost cost when they wero laid 26 years ago. Even tho steel which formed tho track nt tho curves, and ordinarily would bo regarded as worth llttlo, sold for half Its original cost. From tho April Popular Mechanics Magazine. |