The Somerset reporter., 1889-01-24
Railway Equipment in 1893.

The enarmon. railroad buiiiIHs 4 ---
must naturally have been foaa al by
large additions to equp mrut Iae Yea'
ls-S was one Of reduce mt '1rast2- and
heavy expenses nevertheless tHe aafput
Of locomotives wa prsbab.f @rsateF thau
in any preceding year eNr"p' - and
thu output of cars ha- beet Nrrs 1850 60
that Of ~, If not greater anI PHa4a1'y
greater than IN any ptHer one Year La~i
January We published TIT nGnJef If i5eY-
motives buif yearly ~ HIrctreu private
tlrm- from ls.0 t. - Inclusive. " at
temp; wa made to gel the num5ef as .'
hy the railroads TIE creates eum3-r
Of locomotives built ~ fhr-e - Hru-
wa- 2.2s2. in l--2 In so theg hu.'
. O4i In lsss Il nrm- built , - loc1-
motives, and Sc railroad companies ia tA"
/ Emitted States aud Gahada built -
| lhis Is undoubtedly very near TIL "huic
year output The l. llrm- Of ioeaHp
| tive builders include all ol The larse build
crs, and all whose product has peen I'M
pprlaut. Rep Is wefe received .rom lns
railroads. and the GG Winch built iacauiJ-
tive, fis@!.;...s I'll e - laf.er -raqt. rnus>
and nearly all which build locomotive.
The average annual output Of the 10
firms from ls.O To- ls.7 Nh - lpc9-
SOL, $50 Of the l. firms only ene but'
over 100 locomotives. The next larzc~i
product of one firm was SOL There Wer,
three firms which butt oyer POO l9enm '-
tives each. and seven building over lon
Besides the locomotives, there VIZ J.
rotary snow.plough~ built,
he ears for freight service built in
lsSs were. hy 81 firm, e.. $50 and by 50
railroads 1880, or -, 100 in all. 1t j.
impossible t. lay what percentage Of TIM
output Of the year these figures repr. >eni
hut it must be very large part Of thu
whole. In 1881 the car- built t. run III
freight service were by ID car work. % .
10, aud by % railroads G,32G, or 30. zol
III all. 1t Is seen that the number Of ear
built increased in lsSs i'll greater ratio
than the number Of companies reporting.
which in itself would Indicate that the
output has actually increased. on thu
other hand, those car-hulldcrS who r.
ported in both years almost without eN-
ception built somewhat more cars in is,
than in 1855. the net result for the fifteen
Il ms being decrease of about Il per
cent in the latter year, This is the clos
est approx imatun that our Returns viii
enable Us to make To tile relative activity
of the freiuht-Car business of the two
wears. Among the twenty-oue Car-work~
reporting for lseN who dld not report Tor
1887 are ten wnich built over l,ooa cars
each, five which built over oup car
each, aud three which built over 5000
each, THESE ten largr producers were
enough to raise the average II A. Ia ar-
count for the fact that while the NUMBER
of cars built has Increased more than the
number Of car-works reporting, tile indi-
vidual works reporting in both year,
show an actual but slight dimunitipn Of
activity. OF the thirty--iX car-Wprk~,
one butt over j,oH1 cars for freight sat-
vice, four built over 4 ooo each, ten built
over 3 900 each, twelve built over 2.oou
each, and twenty over 600.
The same car-works aud railroads re
port cars built to run in passenger ser
vice a. follows: BY SO car works l,9ji,
hy &C railroads III, total 2,4Il. In lsS1
o car-works butt jGl cars for pa>sen2"r
service, aud % railroads built l69. or 80
| in all. In every case where one ear com
pauy has reported for both years thu
| product of lssS is considerably increased
= cr lss1, and it is fair presumption
| that the passeuger-car business WAS gen
orally more active in lsss. There wrr''
l4nia Marks i.at e4li' oN' 500 pas, n4rl
of The great falling off IN railroad con-
struction, and notwithstanding Ia" ole
crease in net earnings, the year ls>s Wa
one of the three Years OF greatest output
of rolling stock, and the amount turned
out was nearly if not quite cqnh Ia tina
produced in lss7 or in lNS2.- In HtU
road G0zette, .jdHHdT4 I.