. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 0 miles long,and the city is famous for the alleged kill-ing of a mule during the has forty-seven locomotives, twenty-nine passenger and 1,070 freight cars. The Santiago road is 3^ mies long, has This shows a total of liSA miles oftrack, thirty-four locomotives, fifty-fivepassenger and 350 freight cars for PortoRico, to say nothing of the three steam-boats. Cuba shows a much larger total, owingto its having so much more room to putthe railroads. It has 1,139 miles of road,311 locomotives,
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 0 miles long,and the city is famous for the alleged kill-ing of a mule during the has forty-seven locomotives, twenty-nine passenger and 1,070 freight cars. The Santiago road is 3^ mies long, has This shows a total of liSA miles oftrack, thirty-four locomotives, fifty-fivepassenger and 350 freight cars for PortoRico, to say nothing of the three steam-boats. Cuba shows a much larger total, owingto its having so much more room to putthe railroads. It has 1,139 miles of road,311 locomotives, 440 passenger and 6,121freight cars. When things get to moving again thesewill probably all expand, and should be agood field for business, always remember-ing the climate and its effect on strangers. Steel Ties. Wooden ties are said to have practicallydisappeared from the Mexican ties have been in experimental usesince 1884, and General Manager Footis satisfied that they are good for somefifty years, while wood lasts perhaps fouryears. Steel tics at present cost about $3. RIDING IN RUSSIA. seven locomotives, eighteen passenger andeighty-two freight cars. The longest road is the United Railwaysof Havana, which has 227 miles of track,seventy-eight locomotives, eighty-ninepassenger and 1,819 freight cars. It hasalso a branch of eleven miles of 30-inchgage, with three locomotives and fifty-four passenger cars. The Western of Havana is iio> mileslong, has nineteen locomotives, twentypassenger and 237 freight cars. The Sagua la Grande has 70 miles ofstandard gage, with twenty-three loco-motives, twenty-one passenger and 546freight cars. They also have nine milesof 30-inch gage, with three locomotives,two passenger and forty freight cars. The odd-gage roads are the Gibara andHolguin, having 18M miles of 3-footgage, three locomotives, four passengerand sixteen freight cars: also the PuertoPrincipe y Nuevitas. with its 45< milesof 5-foot gage, ten locomoti
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