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CHARAOTEKISTICS OE EOAD.

Gauge of track.................................           4ft. 8J in.

Weight of steel rails per yard in main line........           65 pounds.

Weight of steel rails per yard in branches..........   56 to 65      "

Weight of iron rails per yard in branches..........           60      "
 

EQUIPMENT.

1881.         1882.

Number of locomotiye engines for passenger service..        118       133

Number of locomotive engines for freight service.....        286       376

Number of locomotive engines for switching service..       234       224

Number of dummy engines.......................           8         10

Total number of locomotives.................        646       633
 

Average weight (with tender, fuel and water) of each kind of locomo¬
tive engines, viz.:

Passenger engines.............................    54 tons,

Ereight  engines...............................    55 tons.

Switching engines............................    44 tons,

1881.         1883.

Number of first-class passenger cars...............        343       341

Number of second-class, and emigrant passenger cars,         92         97

Number of baggage, mail and express cars..........        153        158

Total number of passenger, baggage,mail and express cars     588       596
 


 

188L
 

1882.
 


 

With
8'wlieels.
 

With
4 wheels.
 

with
8 wheels.
 

With
i wheels.
 

Number of box freight cars.......
 

14,043

2,849

1,387

296

443

1,487

179

60

14
 

696

15

1,548
48
 

16,644

2,587

3,125

*55

t

1,457

173

61

15
 

985
16
 

Number of oil tank cars..........
 


 


 

1,533
 

Number of conductors cars.......
 

67
 

Number of derrick cars............
 


 


 

.   20,158
 

2,307
 

33,016
 

2,549
 

Total number of all kinds___
 

22,465
 

24,565
 

* Reduction in 1883 of oil tank cars, caused by the tanlts being removed, and the cars
converted into platform cars.
1' Oil rack cars in 1881, now converted into cattle cars.