The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-03-03

ton as much as it did the brord
gauge.
Locomotives of the best descrip-
ton are now built for the narrow
gauge, of all sizes from II to 80 tons
weight, and with a tractiVe power
of over 1000 tons.
Great improvements have been
recently made in the construction OF
all kinds of cars, from the luxuri-
GUS sleeper and drawing room car,
to the plain fiat.
For convenience of reference, the
following tables are given, showing
the weight and capacity of the va
rious kinds Of care in general use
by the two kinds OF roads, the three
feet standard narrow gauge, and the
four #. 8 1-2 inch standard wide
gauge. From. these tables each
reader can make his own calcula-
tons of the immense saving in op-
Grating expenses of the narrow
gauge system:
BROAD GAUGE
LIST Class Pass. car 5000 lbs Ca, Sc pass.
stock & grain car 10000 50 " 10000 lbs
Fiat car $4,000" I" 100000 Sc
MARROW GAUGE.
1st Glass Pass car $4,000 lbs Ca. &c pass
Stock s. grain g s,OOO.' $1,000 lbs
Flat Sc $3.50" &" $4,000 's
Messers Billmyer and Smalls OF
York, Pa, are bnilding fats of the
latter weight, with capacity OF
10000 lbs, or sixteen pounds of payz
ing freight to five pounds of dead
weight.
Cattle cars built by the same firm.
carry twelve large cattle facing the
ends of the car, or 16 small cattle,
facing the sides of the car.
Prominent stock men prefer to
ship in these cars because the cattle
steady themselves better, seldom
getting down; and bebause it is
easier to feed and attend them.
Tho Denver and Rio Grande
Railway Co. have found by expert
ence that the actual saving in the
moving of dead or non-paying VT.
over their road, is thirty-f per ct.
in cnse the cars of both roads are
run full. If, as is almost always the
case, some of the cars are empty, OF
only partially loaded, the difference
in faYer of the narrow gauge is still
greater. Experience has proved the
following general propositions, in
regard to building and operating
railroads. BY the light of this &C.
cumulateI experience, future rail
road building will be governed.
First. The cost of construction OF
road bedand superstructure is very
nearly in proportion to the width
of gauge. Invery rough countries,
this proportion will be greater in
favor of the narrow, and in very
level countries, in favor of the broad
gauge.
Thus, taking two standard gau-
ges, the cost will be as So is to 561a
Second. Every inch added to the
width of the gauge, beyond what
is absolutely necessary for the traf'
fic, adds to the cost of construction
increases the proportion of dead
weight, increases the cost of oper'
atiDg, and in consequence, increases
the tariff and to the extent of suck
increase, decreases the usefulness o.
the road.
Third. The dead weight of trains
is in direct proportion to the gauge
which they run. Example. On
"a inch gauge, cars carry nearly six
times their own weight.
On thirty six inch gauge, near
" three times their own weight
while on Sea inch gauge they on
" carry Sisweight equal to their ow1
Fourth. The evidence of expert
ence, and of general commissions tx
investigate the subject, establishe
beyond q question, that the tire,
feet gauge is abundantly able to d.
all the business required of an!
road, on nine-tenths of all the road
in America.
Fifth. The saving in operatin;
expenses, is found to be from TWEEN
ty to twenty-five per cent. an equa
amount of business being done b,
each road,
Sixth. An engine on three fee
gauge, with the same steam power
will hula q greater amount @
freight up the same grade. Or wi
haul the same amount of freight u
d sleeper grade, than can be draw
on the wide gauge. tSee tables b
Richard B. Osborne, G. Ed
Seventh. Since the first narroN
gauge train commenced running il
America, there has been 40 seriou
sccident eDtailiDg loss of life re
ported.
when the above facts are thorough
ly understood and appreciated, it i
fair to presume. that the people wi
not burden themselves with tn
support of any moro of the oil
fashioned expensive roads, no ma
ter whose money builds them.
For the facts embodied in tn
article, 1 am largely indebted to
work recently published, entitle
Marrow Gauge Railways in Amel
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