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Show j Huge Sum Spent For Equipment In addition to moving millions of tons of war material and untold numbers of service personnel in its vital war job, the Union Pacific railroad in the year just ended made a substantial contribution to the nation's economic picture, W. M. Jeffers, president of the railroad, rail-road, has disclosed. ! The railroad spent $101,350,000 for operating materials and sup- plies, new rolling stock equipment, shop and roadway work equipment I and machines, he said. I Necessarily using many "multi-I "multi-I million" figures, Mr. Jeffers re-I re-I vealed that some of the larger purchases pur-chases were for: Materials and supplies for maintenance main-tenance and repairs to its property ! and operation of equipment, $87,-000,000. $87,-000,000. I Thirty-five new steam freight 'and passenger locomdtives, $10,-000,000 $10,-000,000 (a single large modern steam freight locomotive, costs $315,000). One thousand new refrigerator cars, $5,300,000. Thirteen new diesel switching locomotives, $1,000,000. Shop machinery, roadway work j equipment and machines, $1,-500,000. $1,-500,000. Four hundred fifty miles of heavy new rail, tie plates and track accessories, $8,500,000. (These aggregated 200,000,000 pounds of rail and 84,000,000 i pounds of tie plates and acces- jsories). j Coal used amounted to 6,800,000 tons, costing $15,000,000; and 110,. 000,000 feet board measure of lumber lum-ber and forest products were purchased, pur-chased, including 2,500,000 track ties. The railroad also purchased 100 new caboose cars for $700,000, and, to aid in combating the shortage short-age of metals, sent 420,000,000 pounds of scrap to mills for re-melting. re-melting. To facilitate movement of war traffic, a new three-channel carrier car-rier telephone circuit was completed com-pleted between Omaha, Nebraska, and Portland, Oregon, at a cost of $200,000. Also, 380 .miles of centralized cen-tralized traffic control, costing $3,700,000, were installed in the railroad's western single track territory to permit more expeditious expedi-tious movement of trains. |