. Railway age . South of Soochow. J £1 Bridging the Grand Canal, rv6 THE RAILROAD GAZETTE. Vol. No. 20. the works are fairly heavy, there being many high Alls and detj)cuts In the Yanetsze valley. The rails, 851 lb8. to the yard onJarrah (Australian) ties, are laid for a single track, though the AIIkand bridges from Shanghai to Huchan have been built for double-track, the road being a first class one, designed for hlgu specdg andheavy freight, while the ;it grade Is only (i jier cent. Thegage is 4 ft. ;i in. The passenger locomotives have been supplied by Mesisra. Rob
. Railway age . South of Soochow. J £1 Bridging the Grand Canal, rv6 THE RAILROAD GAZETTE. Vol. No. 20. the works are fairly heavy, there being many high Alls and detj)cuts In the Yanetsze valley. The rails, 851 lb8. to the yard onJarrah (Australian) ties, are laid for a single track, though the AIIkand bridges from Shanghai to Huchan have been built for double-track, the road being a first class one, designed for hlgu specdg andheavy freight, while the ;it grade Is only (i jier cent. Thegage is 4 ft. ;i in. The passenger locomotives have been supplied by Mesisra. RobertStephenson & Co., of Newcastle-on-Tyne, fCngland, ana the freightlocomotives by the North British l-ocomotlve Co. The rest of therolling stock was built by the Metropolitan Amalgamated HallwayCarriage & Wagon Co. The Railroad, to whose tumultuous Infancywe have already alluded, has been absorbed and partly rebuilt bythe Shanghai-Nanking bramh of ilic Imperial Railways, and at Woo-. Bridge Arches Under Construction North of Soochow. sung completely equiiijuil railroad shopK have been erected for themanufacture of rolling slock and for locomotive repairs. Theseshops are driven and lighted by electricity. The estimate for theline, Including the of land, is $38,400 per mile. The one of the most populous in China, particularly between Shanghaiand Su-chan, so that it is expected that this portion of the linewill be double-tracked at an early date. The provinces of theYangtsze valley are the chief centers of the tea, cotton and silk of the .:, with such other Information as usually appears onthe central column of the train theet. On either side of the renter,corresponding wlih the columns for train records, aie groovts orslots Into which slide the cards, each one to contain the record ofa train. These cards are 18 In. long and IVi in. wide, and ar<? ar-ranged to contain all information coniernlng the train, such a» de-lays, tonnage,
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