Scribner's magazine . Porters with Lamp-truck, for Incoming Train. way every day over every mile of rail- 1,344,000,000 passengers carried in theroad in the kingdom. In the United year. No one should quote this as anStates the total movement equalled actual figure—it is a mere guess. The. A Country Station on the Midland RaiU/ay 864,000,000 we are sure of, and tlie480,000,000 may be too many or toofew to add. In the United States tlie passengerscarried by rail in 1892, were 843,000,-000. Let us take, as approximate!}^comparable figures, 1,344,000,000 pas-sengers carried in the United Kingd
Scribner's magazine . Porters with Lamp-truck, for Incoming Train. way every day over every mile of rail- 1,344,000,000 passengers carried in theroad in the kingdom. In the United year. No one should quote this as anStates the total movement equalled actual figure—it is a mere guess. The. A Country Station on the Midland RaiU/ay 864,000,000 we are sure of, and tlie480,000,000 may be too many or toofew to add. In the United States tlie passengerscarried by rail in 1892, were 843,000,-000. Let us take, as approximate!}^comparable figures, 1,344,000,000 pas-sengers carried in the United Kingdom,and 843,000,000 in the United the English roads carried 67,200passengers per mile of railroad worked,and ours carried 4,900. In the year 1892 the English rail-roads carried 15,500 tons of freight permile worked. In the same year ourscarried 4,382 tons per mile we see that while the English rail-roads carried 14 times as many pas-sengers for each mile worked as oursdid, they carried only 3 J times as manytons of freight per mile of road. The gross earnings of the railroadsof the IJnited Kingdom in 1892 wereabout $400,000,000, say $20,000 permile. In the United States they were$1,320,000,000, or $7,720 per mileworked. But this includes a vast mile-age of very th
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