. Railway age . eat for the ])resent bridges. Allthe locomotives except a few .small switching engines are of Amer-ican manufacture. The old freight cars were all small ones fol-lowing the English practice, but after the construction of the Amer-ican Cerro de Pasco road the English company commenced usingthe onllnary :!•) ft. .Americiin pattern car of 50,000 lbs. capacity. rllfflculiy hi pn-venllng stealing. The passenger rates, first class,arc alxiui 5 cents, gold, jx-r mile. Cholos ride In the second clasBcars and Orlngos and Peruvians ride first class. The freight ralesare very high. The ro
. Railway age . eat for the ])resent bridges. Allthe locomotives except a few .small switching engines are of Amer-ican manufacture. The old freight cars were all small ones fol-lowing the English practice, but after the construction of the Amer-ican Cerro de Pasco road the English company commenced usingthe onllnary :!•) ft. .Americiin pattern car of 50,000 lbs. capacity. rllfflculiy hi pn-venllng stealing. The passenger rates, first class,arc alxiui 5 cents, gold, jx-r mile. Cholos ride In the second clasBcars and Orlngos and Peruvians ride first class. The freight ralesare very high. The road, through Insufflclency of rolling stock,has great difficulty In handling the traffic offered It. and this trafficIs bound to Increaiie to still greater proi>ortlons aa new mines arebeing opened up and as the C«rro de Pasco mines are not workingup to their maximum output as yet. The Cerro de Pasco road that conne<-tB with the Central Roadat Oroya Is operated by the American capital owning the Cerro de.
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