Show IT P TO SPEND MUCH FOR NEW MEW EQUIPMENT As an indication ot of the determination of railroads in this country to fully meet the requirements 0 of the situation announcement is made that the enormous eap exp expenditures gradi tures for purchasing equipment and providing other facilities to furnish transportation so essential to the welfare ot of agriculture manufacturing mining and other industries of the country are to be continued during 1926 the union pacific system is one 0 of the foremost in this respect and has announced an expenditure of approximately nine dine and one halt half billiou dollars for the purchase of new equipment alone tor for delivery during the first halt half of the year rear 15 70 ft all steel coaches 10 70 ft all steel baggage cars 10 ft all steel observation cars 5 83 ft all steel dining cars 9 5 70 ft all steel passenger service horse cars 2 69 tt ft all steel baggage mail cars 1000 steel j convertible ballast cars I 1 I 1 1000 50 it i 1 all steel automobile cars 25 heavy heary 3 cylinder type locomotives the locomotives will cost more than each and are designed lor for fast freight service the observation cars will cost approximately each and are to be used in transcontinental trans continental limited trains there will be a number of changes in the design of these cars for the purpose ot of increasing the comfort ot of the patrons ot of the road it if that Is possible there will bu be sepa tc tf lounge rooms for men and women with tub and shower baths improvements have also been made in the dining cars with increased facilities tor for serving a greater number of people the cars are slightly larger than earlier designs being 83 feet in length each car will cost a approximately 55 the new coaches embody structural and mechanical improvements as well as seats ot of improved comfort and cost approximately each the ten new 70 foot steel baggage cars included in the order will cost each the new horse cars are express cars of steel construction specially equipped with box stalls and other conveniences and are designed bartic tor lor the shipment oi race horses aud roping and horses whick are valued throughout tide ou on a b liar with the lamug bt block ock and arl an used in the mcay now low neing being M liu iu at various towns lowns in the west cesi rie rave of 0 ulese these have beba purchased hastu seu at ai a cost or of approximately col ballast cars are to fo handling gravel crus hed bed rock ana otiler other materials used la railroad cou coal si st ruction as well nell as aa coal sugar beets and other commod lt leg lag these cars cost 2700 eath each and the purchase pur chabe oi 01 1000 ol of them represents an investment ot of one thousand new automobile cars costing each toe for the entire order are leing being purchased to transport the greatly in increased creasea number ot of automobiles moving over the union pacific these cats cais are ot solid steel construe con construction tion very sl aunch ly bult built and special facilities tor for loading unloading and the safety ot of motor cars in transit they are fireproof fire tire proof burglar burglarproof proof and virtually indestructible the new to be purchased is not for replacing existing cars end and locomotives but Is for ini creasing the transportation facilities of the union pacific so that it may efficiently carry its share ot of the rapidly mounting transcontinental trans continental i freight and passenger ilc |