. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . res Great Sonihcrn 627 786 15,200 16,613 Kuenos Aires Si Pacific 742 409 12,651 13,802 Diienos Aires Western 327 348 10,422 Central 267 i2i 6,960 diitral Norte 387 206 6,537 Province of Santa Fe 160 147 5,604 5,911Ptovince of Buenos .\ires General Rail-road 104 98 tntre Rios S4 94 2,346 .\rgentine del 66 100 1,829 .\rgentine .Northeastern 68 74 1,136 1,278Rosario Puerto I3el- grano 44 28 Buenos Aires Central. 38 25 1
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . res Great Sonihcrn 627 786 15,200 16,613 Kuenos Aires Si Pacific 742 409 12,651 13,802 Diienos Aires Western 327 348 10,422 Central 267 i2i 6,960 diitral Norte 387 206 6,537 Province of Santa Fe 160 147 5,604 5,911Ptovince of Buenos .\ires General Rail-road 104 98 tntre Rios S4 94 2,346 .\rgentine del 66 100 1,829 .\rgentine .Northeastern 68 74 1,136 1,278Rosario Puerto I3el- grano 44 28 Buenos Aires Central. 38 25 Plata & Meridiano Ouinto 21 25 923 969 Buenos Aires Midland 34 .>3 869 936Central Railway of Chiibut 6 7 86 99 State Development Railways Total 3,354 It will be noted from this table that theCentral Argentine, the Southern, and theBuenos .Aires & Pacific normally requirethe largest amounts of rolling three companies maintain extensiveshops in the Argentine where they notonly do repair work, but manufacture aconsiderable amount of rollins stock. The. )]■ T-\NK ENGINE ON THE U-NTU.\I. .\RGENTINE RAILWAY. have been forced to pay very small or nodividends at all, and they are anxious toretain and expand their Argentine hold-ings, provided they are insured sufficientprotection by the government, as well as Central .Argentine has large factories atRosario and Perez, where it has beenbuilding cars for several years. Theshops of the Southern are situated atTallcrcs, where, among other railroad June, 1919 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING Id J equipment, a special type of postal car ismade. The Buenos Aires & Pacific hasbeen building a distinctive ventilated fruitcar for fast service between San Juan,Mendoza and Buenos Aires. The administrative offices of the largeBritish companies are, without exception,situated in Buenos Aires, but the execu-tive officers are British and prefer to maketheir purchases in Britain when fact explai
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