. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . SAN JOSE STATION. are now beginning the building of 50more of the 40,000-lb. capacity boxcars. These are principally for thecoffee trade, which increases am sending you a picture of abridge we recently built at our shops,made entirely out of old rails, drilledand riveted together. This was theidea of our general manager, and de-signed by Mr. Gray. Two bridges ofthis size were made and they proved. BKll«.,t .M.\Ui: Ol- OLD to be cheap and substantial. Theywere placed on cart
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . SAN JOSE STATION. are now beginning the building of 50more of the 40,000-lb. capacity boxcars. These are principally for thecoffee trade, which increases am sending you a picture of abridge we recently built at our shops,made entirely out of old rails, drilledand riveted together. This was theidea of our general manager, and de-signed by Mr. Gray. Two bridges ofthis size were made and they proved. BKll«.,t .M.\Ui: Ol- OLD to be cheap and substantial. Theywere placed on cart roads leading toour stations for convenience of the coffee planters in bringing their prod-uce to the road. With a few words more to explainthe last picture I will close. This isa new and modern station building,located at San Jose, directly at the endof the pier. It is a well arranged ter-minal. Passengers coming from thesteamers pass through it to theirtrains. Freight is hauled from end ofpier on small cars and placed in thestation alongside of railroad cars,where it is transferred. The upperpart of the building is the office of and his army of clerks. I
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