Canadian machinery and metalworking (July-December 1917) . rch 31st, 1916, was miles, ascompared with 675 miles in the formeryear; only miles are double track, however. Passing sidings amount miles, while other sidings andspurs total miles. The total capi-tal expenditure on behalf of the Inter-colonial Railway System to March 31st,1916, amounts to $115,766, At theend of the first years1 operation of theroad, 421,327 tons of freight and 613,420passengers were carried, while for theyear ended March 31st, 1916, the figuresare 5,447,220 and 4,124,387 respective
Canadian machinery and metalworking (July-December 1917) . rch 31st, 1916, was miles, ascompared with 675 miles in the formeryear; only miles are double track, however. Passing sidings amount miles, while other sidings andspurs total miles. The total capi-tal expenditure on behalf of the Inter-colonial Railway System to March 31st,1916, amounts to $115,766, At theend of the first years1 operation of theroad, 421,327 tons of freight and 613,420passengers were carried, while for theyear ended March 31st, 1916, the figuresare 5,447,220 and 4,124,387 expenses and gross earnings of$1,661, and $1,154, comparewith $12,551, and $14,068, forthe respective years. As regards rolling stock, it will havebecome evident from the figures abovequoted that a corresponding developmentboth as to quality and quantity has takenplace since 1876. On March 31st, 1916,the equipment consisted of 434 locomo-tives, 66 sleeping cars, 10 parlor cars,21 dining cars, 65 colonist cars, 169 first. MOUNT ROYAL TUNNEL PORTAL—MODEL CITY END. class passenger and official cars, 96 sec-ond class passenger cars, 36 postal cars,75 baggage cars, 26 box baggage cars, 1air brake instruction car, 1 steam motorcar, making a total of 566 passengercars; 10,099 box cars, 192 refrigeratorcars, 3,239 platform cars, 52 pulpwoodcars, 55 oil tank cars, 640 hopper cars, 5gondola cars, 376 twenty-ton coal cars,526 Hart-Otis steel dump cars, 185 stockcars, 300 Hart convertible dump cars, 4pit cars, 184 vans, making a total of 15,-863 freight cars; 23 auxiliary cars, 1store supply car, 2 Pintsch gas cars, 51common snow plows, 27 wing snow plows,2 steam rotary snow plows, 2 doubletrack snow plows, 1 double end snowplow, 54 flangers, 22 steam cranes, 2Rogers ballast spreaders, 1 ballast trim-mer, 5 centre ballast plows, 7 side ballastplows, 4 ballast plow unloaders, 1 wingballast spreader, 4 concrete mixers, 1sand blast machine, 1 well b
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