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Identifier: railwayage44newy (find matches)
Title: Railway age
Year: 1870 (1870s)
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Subjects: Railroads
Publisher: New York (etc.) R.G. Lewis (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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et two-thirds more carrying capacity. I think that Is wellwoith the extra expense, when you lake into consideration a greatmany other points in favor of the larger cars. Now we come to the question of cost. That is a gircat bugbearto many railroad companies, especially at present. 1 know of a rail-road Ihai got some tigures on steel cars and also cars with woodenframes, and when it was found that for the .same money they couldobtain a groat many more wooden cars. It apiH-ale^ so strongly tothe powers that lie thai they said well, we will put In the steelcars a little later, but now buy wooden cars which will give us morecars for the same money. In the early part of last year we gotbids on steel cars, and the prices ran a little less than three centsa pound. You-can get very little structural steel erected for lessthan four cents a pound. And even at that price very few peoplewould think of pulling up a wooden building nowadays. In the lon.c Febriauv 21. 1908. THE RAILROAD GAZETTE. 239
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w ♦ 240 THE RAILROAD GAZETTE. Vol. XLIV.. No. 8.

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  • bookcentury:1800
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