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Show COST OP RAIL CABS. DAY COACH 13 AS EXPENSIVE A3 A FINE HOUSE. TVh.l Train In Mnllon rrHghl Tht IJtlit.r 11 la th Greater th Hp...I Fr.liht Cart Illtldtd Into lour CUaiM by lUIUoad II. a. An ordinary paaicnger car on a atcam railroad coat from 11,000 to 15,000 and weigh 38,000 pounds, or nineteen ton. A mall car, which cotta from f:,000 to I2.C00 and Is ehortcr by about one-quarter than the ordinary pattcnger coach, weighs 32,-000 32,-000 pounds, or sixteen tons. A baggage bag-gage car without tho baggago In It weighs 28,000 pounds, or fourteen tons, and cost about aa much aa a mall car. A sleeping car Is moro expensive expen-sive than any ot tho others and It weigh n good deal more, too. A plain, slmplo but durable sleeping car, with obaervatory attachment, literary liter-ary annex and culinary department, costs anywhoro from 110,000 to fSO,-000. fSO,-000. The averago weight of a sleeping car Is from twenty to twenty-two tons. A full train In motion, as a little figuring figur-ing will how, la no light affair. The ordinary weight of tho railroad loco-motlro loco-motlro for paasanger service, Inclualve of tender but not ot fuel In tho tender, la forty tona, Ono baggage car weighs fourteen tons and ono malt car sixteen six-teen tons, bringing up tho weight of the locomotive and tho baggage and mall cars to seventy tons. Hlx poa-scngcr poa-scngcr cars at nn average of nineteen tona, weight of baggage, of tho fuel carried and eight cars would bo 181 tons, or 3C8.O0O pounds, exclusive of tbo passenger and mall matter. Pulling Pull-ing 184 ton nlong rnll nt tho rato of fifty mile an hour or more I an achievement which haa not been easily brought about and the more the problem prob-lem la etudlcd tho moro clearly It la underatood how far mechanical work on rallroada hot been pushed. Thero were by the lint figure reported 30,-000 30,-000 locomotive In uae on tho American Ameri-can railroads, 28,000 passenger cars and 8,000 mall and baggago cars.Theso figure eem largo until compared with the number ot freight car on American Ameri-can railroad, and then they aeem In-algnlflcant, In-algnlflcant, for the number of freight cars In us Is 1,250.000. Freight car among the railroad men aro divided Into four claitoa flat car, auch oa are used for tho transportation of stone, machinery and lumber; box can, such as aro used for the transportation transpor-tation of grain, fruit and ordinary merchandise; stock cars, tuch as are ueed for cattle, and coal cars, such as are used for the transportation of coal and oil thoae uted for oil being supplied with tank. Tho average weight of a flat or gondola car la soven tons. Tho car coat from f300 to MOO. Ilox can weigh a ton moro and cost 8100 more each. Stock cars weigh eight tons each on the average; coal cara weigh three tona each. It cotta about $200 to build coal or oil cam. and they nro designed to enrry five tona apiece. The weight of fifty coal can li 1C0 tons, nnd of their contents. con-tents. It all filled, 2S0 tons, which with locomotive and caboose added, make 420 ton a the weight of a train. It may bo added, roughly, that tbo weight ot loaded trains, passenger, coal or freight, ranges from 200 to C50 tons. The lighter the train tho greater the speed; that's tho railroad rule. |