. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE KXGINEERING 149 struction train, in fact, for Iioiising thelaborers, was used anywhere on the Trans-Siberian. ROLLING STOCK. All cars are Russian; locomotives fromRussia. France. England, Germany, Aus-tria. Belgiuin. L^nited States. Some—fromAustria and Germany—are very old types,built in the fifties and sixties, and havebeen capsized over and over again, andrumble along almost as well to-day asthirty or forty years ago. at speeds vary-ing from 30 verstas per hour for t
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE KXGINEERING 149 struction train, in fact, for Iioiising thelaborers, was used anywhere on the Trans-Siberian. ROLLING STOCK. All cars are Russian; locomotives fromRussia. France. England, Germany, Aus-tria. Belgiuin. L^nited States. Some—fromAustria and Germany—are very old types,built in the fifties and sixties, and havebeen capsized over and over again, andrumble along almost as well to-day asthirty or forty years ago. at speeds vary-ing from 30 verstas per hour for the pas-senger, to 20 for the freight trains (say20 to 13 miles, respectively). Many of the trains consist of a hetero-geneous collection of old types of car-riages, some being of the date of the firstintroduction of railroads into Russia, andpresenting an ungainly appearance. TheRussian authorities have found the trans-Siberian a handy dumping-ground for oldrolling stock. But the through Siberian mail trains—running at present as far as Stretensk, onthe trans-Baikal—have solid vestibuled. with, of course, free quarters. Small pro-vincial towns have the second-class sta-tions, and the chiefs receive from 60 to 75rubls; while village stations—like Cipoc-tan, the first station in Asia you stop at oncrossing the Urals—are ranked third class,the chef-dc-garc receiving 40 to 50 rublsper month. All the stations are provided willi tlicusual lonely waiting-rooms—and of allspots on earth, the Siberian waiting-roomis the most lonesome, without even a sin-gle advertising placard of the Roughon rats. or Warners safeguard. or Metenkot, phot , SIBERIAN R.\ILR0.\D—A COUlLE OFTELEGRAPHERS. cars, uniform in appearance, painted green,iron-sheathed, and equipped with con-veniences as in America. Even a piano isnot wanting; but it is certain the trainmakes the most noise! There are fourclasses—the first averaging 2 cents perversta; the second, ij^ cents; the third,
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