. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . The passenger hurries to in a railway coach without a of tjie shops, No. 2568, it appears to bea small engine. The following is the relative size of thethree types in use inside of thirty years:Total weight of engine C. P. Hunting-ton, 2j,ooo; Engine No. 1500 is 72,500;Engine No. 2568 is 208,000; diameter of Profits of British Railways. The compiler of British statistics isslow but he is sure and his statement maybe accepted as being correct enough forall practical purposes. The blu
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . The passenger hurries to in a railway coach without a of tjie shops, No. 2568, it appears to bea small engine. The following is the relative size of thethree types in use inside of thirty years:Total weight of engine C. P. Hunting-ton, 2j,ooo; Engine No. 1500 is 72,500;Engine No. 2568 is 208,000; diameter of Profits of British Railways. The compiler of British statistics isslow but he is sure and his statement maybe accepted as being correct enough forall practical purposes. The blue book ofrailways has lately been published andshows that the gross receipts from pas-senger and freight traffic last year on theBritish railways were $625,000,000, an m-crease of only per cent. These earn-ings include those of the electrified Metro-politan and Metropolitan District rail-ways of London, the Liverpool Overheadrailway and other lines of similar char-acter in other cities. The average dividends paid by theBritish railways were 3^ per cent, onthe common, 3!^ per cent, on the pre-. THE C. P. HUNTINGTON, NOW AN EXHIIilT IN THE .S.\C , thought of the dimensions of the moderncar. He rarely stops to think how greatly it has outgrown its fellows of a quarterof a century ago. The freight car is morelikely to be noted by the shipper; itsgreatly enlarged capacity may appeal tohim more directlv.
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