. Railway and Locomotive Engineering . th, but the branch lines bring the totalmileage up to a little over 700 miles. Therail is 75 and 90-lb. This railway has nofreight cars under lbs. capacity, andquite a number of 100,000 lb. capacity great deal of the rail is .-ierican, so islargely the signaling apparatus, and thelarge locomotives are made by the .•\mcr-ican Locomotive Company at Dunkirk, , on the Erie Railroad. I was verynnich tickled when I saw this outfit. Thefreight cars are all .American manufac-ture, and the passenger coaches and Pull-man sleepers are American and
. Railway and Locomotive Engineering . th, but the branch lines bring the totalmileage up to a little over 700 miles. Therail is 75 and 90-lb. This railway has nofreight cars under lbs. capacity, andquite a number of 100,000 lb. capacity great deal of the rail is .-ierican, so islargely the signaling apparatus, and thelarge locomotives are made by the .•\mcr-ican Locomotive Company at Dunkirk, , on the Erie Railroad. I was verynnich tickled when I saw this outfit. Thefreight cars are all .American manufac-ture, and the passenger coaches and Pull-man sleepers are American and as fine asanything in America. This railway com-pany, being financed largely by Japanesecapital, and having rights from theChinese Government, is manned entirelyby Japanese. Port Arthur is 40 miles from Dairenon a branch which connects with themain line. I went to Port Arthur, hireda guide and from an eminence took inwhat was the scene of the great siege of1904. I took command myself and con-ducted operations all the way from 203-. (J TURKEY. metre hill to Eagles Xest. but this is an-other story. i took the South Manchuria Railwayto Mukden. Here I stopped over and aguide pointed out the battlefields. I field-marshaled the job, captured the Japaneseand Russian armies, and sent them all intouseful employment, but this is also an-other story; from Mukden I went west toPeking on the Chinese Government , called the Peking-Mukden line. This is 4 ft. 8^^ in. gauge, with first,5ocond and third class coaches, and witha dining car for foreigners and anothercar with a kitchen, where the Chinesecould go in and cook their food. In manyof the third class cars there arc no win-dows during the summer months, and theopenings are very large. One can alsowalk through the train from end to this line a first-class sleeping car trainis run to connect with the Trans-Siberianexpress. The Chinese third-class coacheshave regular seats, as the Chinese havechairs in their homes
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