. Railroad record, and journal of commerce, banking, manufactures and statistics . lingthat had on Ihe Eiglish railroads, and espe-cially on the London and Northwestern. ThePhiladelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Bail-way laid, in their yard in Philadelphia, steelrails on one side of th^ track and iron tailson the other. The steel rails were hammeredrails, and were, with the iron, laid in sieel rails wore out some 17 sets of theiron rails, and then the Company stipped lbsexperiment, laying sieel on both sides. On a curve of 525 feet radius, steel railshave lasted intact since 1865, and
. Railroad record, and journal of commerce, banking, manufactures and statistics . lingthat had on Ihe Eiglish railroads, and espe-cially on the London and Northwestern. ThePhiladelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Bail-way laid, in their yard in Philadelphia, steelrails on one side of th^ track and iron tailson the other. The steel rails were hammeredrails, and were, with the iron, laid in sieel rails wore out some 17 sets of theiron rails, and then the Company stipped lbsexperiment, laying sieel on both sides. On a curve of 525 feet radius, steel railshave lasted intact since 1865, and are as per-fect as when laid, where iron rails had beforeonl^ lasted from three to six months. None of the rails of the PennsylvaniaSteel Company, nor of any other company inthis country, have ever been worn out bytraffic or shifting work, so that I can, aftera five years experience of American makes,have reason to believe they will last at leasta generation, under ihe hardest service EXTINGUISHER. p o o co o ti! £-4 fi- M-i -m ll. CO CD r- z d < «2 o r < rc! CD J O. T> c 00 m z N O ct- Z w m c i-j H > 30 F* m CD H -1O o GCt n> O CD Insurance Companies Reduce Rates Where it is Introduoed. The attention «f era-nual RailroadMiii Is earnestly invited t the record ofniirk ilinif. hikI to the fact ihiil nine-tenthsof the lire , Hi -t kindle it stations, in wood]>iles, and on Trains are within the powerof this Machine when discovered F. W. FAR WELL, Secretary, 122 Washington Street,. CHICAGO BOND, Genl Agent, 22 West Fourth Street, CINCINNATI, 48
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