. Railway mechanical engineer . undernames only, 22,862; steelcenter sills only, 635; all-wood, 2,451; not specified, 8,810. If the orders for the preceding year are any measure ofproduction for the following year, and it would seem thatthey are, the production in 1921 should greatly exceed the 1920 total. Orders in 1918 were comparatively high andproduction in 1919 was high. Few orders in 1919 resultedin low production totals for the past year. In like manner,then, orders having increased greatly in 1920, production in 1921 should show considerable advances. It is well to pointout in this con
. Railway mechanical engineer . undernames only, 22,862; steelcenter sills only, 635; all-wood, 2,451; not specified, 8,810. If the orders for the preceding year are any measure ofproduction for the following year, and it would seem thatthey are, the production in 1921 should greatly exceed the 1920 total. Orders in 1918 were comparatively high andproduction in 1919 was high. Few orders in 1919 resultedin low production totals for the past year. In like manner,then, orders having increased greatly in 1920, production in 1921 should show considerable advances. It is well to pointout in this connection that the greater part of the orders forcars in 1920 were placed in the earlier part of the year butthat conditions of transportation were such and raw materialso difficult to secure that the manufacturing plants are onlynow getting up to anything like capacity production. Theoutput of the car building companies has averaged only3,000 cars a month for the greater part of the year. InOctober and November it reached 6, Photo from Keystone View Co., Through ; of N. Plantation Car and Locomotive Prices Reached Peak in 1920 Equipment Ordered During Year Cost Two andOne-Half to Three Times 1910-1914 Average THOSE railroads that purchased locomotives in 1920paid prices for them averaging about two and one-half times the pre-war prices. The prices of freightcars were even higher in proportion than this, all-steel carsbeing priced at three times the pre-war figures and cars ofcomposite construction at more than three times the The increase in passenger car prices was not as pro- commodities which enter into the manufacture of all typesof railway motive power and rolling stock. Table I is a chart compiled for valuation purposes bythe Presidents Conference Committee on Federal chart represents careful studies made by the engineersof that organization in co-operation with the equipmentbuilders. The studies cover lOJ/? years,
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