. Railway age . Traction Engine for Ice Rcidt Hauling String of Log Sleds-. Locomotive Sled for Hauling Loga on Ice Roada. andria and curried by rail or bout up the Nile to Shellal. a distancealmost as great as from New York to Chicago. There it has beentaken by steamers to Wady Haifa and thence on trains to the way to Shellal the railroad freight had to be transferredfrom the broad-gage curs at to the narrow-gage from Luxorto Assouan. .-Ml of these transfers were costly, the freight rateswere high and the time slow. Now ships go right through theSuez canal to Iort Soudan, o
. Railway age . Traction Engine for Ice Rcidt Hauling String of Log Sleds-. Locomotive Sled for Hauling Loga on Ice Roada. andria and curried by rail or bout up the Nile to Shellal. a distancealmost as great as from New York to Chicago. There it has beentaken by steamers to Wady Haifa and thence on trains to the way to Shellal the railroad freight had to be transferredfrom the broad-gage curs at to the narrow-gage from Luxorto Assouan. .-Ml of these transfers were costly, the freight rateswere high and the time slow. Now ships go right through theSuez canal to Iort Soudan, on the Ked sea, and there land theirgoods for the Soudan. The freight Is transferred almost direct tothe car,- to Ulver-pool at a lower rate than that which formerly prevailed between Fkhriiahy 14. 1!)08. THE RAILROAD GAZETTE. Khartum and Wady Haifa. The cause for this was the high priceof coal, all of which had to be brought up the Nile from Alexa
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