Our country and its resources; . e. *? page I IT 1915 UAILROAKS OV THE UNITED STATES I 17 The most recent official figures arethose of the Interstate CommerceCommission for 1014, which givesfor tiie whole country a total of alltracks of 387,208 miles. This in-cludes yard tracks, sidings, fourth,third, second and single track aswell as main line mileage. The 1915statistics, gathered by privatesources make the total for the coun-try 370,344 miles, including thesame tracks as are given in the In-terstate Commerce Commission fig-ures. fives there are 303 electric locomo-tives operating upon steam
Our country and its resources; . e. *? page I IT 1915 UAILROAKS OV THE UNITED STATES I 17 The most recent official figures arethose of the Interstate CommerceCommission for 1014, which givesfor tiie whole country a total of alltracks of 387,208 miles. This in-cludes yard tracks, sidings, fourth,third, second and single track aswell as main line mileage. The 1915statistics, gathered by privatesources make the total for the coun-try 370,344 miles, including thesame tracks as are given in the In-terstate Commerce Commission fig-ures. fives there are 303 electric locomo-tives operating upon steam roails inthe 1nited States. These are of allsizes, hut it is of interest to notethat the worlds largest and mostpowerful freight locomotive is drivenby electricity. It is used to haultrains over the Rockies from Mon-tana into Idano and the electricityused is generated by water length of the locomotive is112i/2 feet and it weighs 2s4 this to the average weigh!in tons of the steam locomotives of. THE SAFETY FIRST TRAIN OF THE B. & the possibility of the railroad for exhibition purposes. LOCOMOTIVES Fpon these miles of tracks thereare running to-day upward of 65,000locomotives. These engines possesstractive power of ,321,000pounds, a weight so inconceivablethat only a comparison can make itevident. If it were possible to hangat the end of a long rope, passingover a pulley, as many huge shipsas would balance the pull in poundsof these locomotives it would requiremore than twenty-one vessels eachthe size and displacement of the ill-fated Lusitania to equal the com-bined effort f the locomotives ofthe United States! In addition to the steam locomo- the United States, which in 1915was tons. CARS The locomotives of the UnitedStates haul 54,378 passenger carsand 2,362,914 freight cars. Thesehave a capacity of 94,995,821 average of tons per car. Itis interesting to look back to thecensus of 10()2 and find that in thatyear the average
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