. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ils at the enor-mous price charged tor them. The de-velopment of the Bessemer steel processgradually reduced the price of steel untilthat material pushed iron out of use. A statement published two years agoby the Raihvay Age says: In 1868 railssold at $174 a ton, but even at this pricea few railway companies had decided thatit was economy to begin to use them in-stead of iron. Ten years later, in 1876,the price had dropped to $, and and the battered relics of the iron agethat still linge
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ils at the enor-mous price charged tor them. The de-velopment of the Bessemer steel processgradually reduced the price of steel untilthat material pushed iron out of use. A statement published two years agoby the Raihvay Age says: In 1868 railssold at $174 a ton, but even at this pricea few railway companies had decided thatit was economy to begin to use them in-stead of iron. Ten years later, in 1876,the price had dropped to $, and and the battered relics of the iron agethat still linger in scattered sidings anaspur tracks will soon disappear. Al-though the price, $26, fixed by the millsfor the coming year, is an advance of $8over the price at the commencement of1899, it is less than tlie average quotationfor that year. But it is a higher figfurellian the large purchasers expected topay, and if maintained may somewhatdiminish the amount of new constructionand renewals which had been planned onthe expectation of a lower price. Still,compared witli $174 a ton, even $26 .^ litUuray ^ Locomotive Ens/inciring DETAILS OF NORFOLK & WESTERN CONSOLIDATION—DESCRIBED ON PAGE 195 OF MAY ISSUE. Rails have always been dear on this con-tinent, which has greatly enhanced thecost of railroad building. When rails 80pounds to the yard are used it costs closeon four thousand dollars a mile forrails alone, and fastenings put up the costnearly one-half more. The first heavy heavy rails made in thiscountry were iron, of course, and wererolled in 1844 at the Mount Savage roll-ing mills in Alleghany county, first rail rolled was of U pattern andthe Franklin Institute of Philadelphiaawarded a silver medal to the first steel rails tried were introducedin 1866 and cost $200 a ton. Engineersdid not at first regard steel rails with about one-quarter of tlie railway mile-age of the country was of steel the next ten years the pricedoubled,
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