. Book of the Royal blue . n and provi-sions carried east from Chicago bj Baltimore & ()hioin the first twenty-six weeks of this year was threeinn. s as large as foi the same time in 1897. igs for ten months haw increi - - - net have gained $1,320,598 I U Reorganiza■ion Committee estimates that net incomi for theyeai ended I um -, will 1 $7,975,785. Within tWO years there ha\e been added to the equipment 1: locomotives ol the most powerfulj pe ■ here tia\ e bei n purchased about 1 4. 00 new Lbo i |s pet cent, ol the freight tiBaltimi 1 0 coal rhe old coal ears were small, light and easi
. Book of the Royal blue . n and provi-sions carried east from Chicago bj Baltimore & ()hioin the first twenty-six weeks of this year was threeinn. s as large as foi the same time in 1897. igs for ten months haw increi - - - net have gained $1,320,598 I U Reorganiza■ion Committee estimates that net incomi for theyeai ended I um -, will 1 $7,975,785. Within tWO years there ha\e been added to the equipment 1: locomotives ol the most powerfulj pe ■ here tia\ e bei n purchased about 1 4. 00 new Lbo i |s pet cent, ol the freight tiBaltimi 1 0 coal rhe old coal ears were small, light and easilj ct ushed. 1 (i ca are scows, carrying from thirty to forty tons perear. And the new engines will five of these cars in a train ovei thi division 1 rom 1 lumber-land to Baltimore. Eighty thousand tons oirails have been laid. 1 ] ■ 1 of Irani loa ■ ste- eight of each iris known. Winn a tram is being made up, the trainnknows indie ver ils <li\ isii in 1 lies, for ce, are expected to ;j; units on the. se 1 division. A train unit is six and one-halt tons; Inn. • 11 is comparatively eas\ to sort out carloads which will give the 2,112 tons, 01 |2; units,required On divisions having heavier grades, theengine capacity is figured at a smaller number ofunits, but the exact number is known and utilizedwherever pi ssible Work on grades, curves and bridges has beencontinuous for two years. Miles of st< hair been built. 11 [redsof thousands ol dollars have been spenl u 1 umbei land, al Mat Pittsburg, and at Locust Point, the ocean term-inal. The outla) on the Pittsburg divis ha 1 1 eeded ^: represented by fourteen miles ol second track, eighteen new bridges livision Phe yard capai it) at Cumberlandhas been in< shops, trai kage, etc., have i Ided 1 iimber- thi 1 1 « hen thi sei ond, third and < Ion- nellsi ille di 1 1 : hat iiams made up foi one division donot interfen with any other. The second division• 1 entirel) relaid with eighty-five-pound railsand th
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