Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-08-17
INTERESTING INFORMATION.
RAILROADS.

INTERESTING INFORMATION.
RAILROADS.
1. How many miles of railway In
| the United States? Ans. $50, SOC
miles about half the mileage of the
| world.
2. How much have they cost :
| Ans. s., 900, 900.
8. How many people are employ
ed by them? Ans. More than | ,000,-
| 900.
! 4. What is the fastest time made
| by a train. Ans. 422 $40 miles in .
hours, SO minutes (443 minutes) one
mile being made in Al 1923 seconds.
on the West Shore railroad, New
York.
5. What is the cost of high-class
eight-wheel passenger locomotive
Ans. About S., 500.
6. What is the longest mileage OPP
Grafton by single system? Ans.
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe system,
about 5000 miles.
7. What is the cost of a Palace
sleeping car? Ans. About $4,000 or
SIT 900 if Vestibuled.n
5. What is the longest railway
bridge span in the United States
Ans. Cantilever span in Poughkeep.
sic bridge, 543 feet.
8. What is the highest railroad
bridge in the United States? Ans.
Kinzua Viaduct, on the Erie road,
305 feet high.
10. Who built the first Locomotive
in the United States? Ans. Peter
Cooper.
III. What road carries the largest
number of passengers +? Ans. Man
haitian Elevated Railroad, New York;
525, 900 a day, or 1911 ,625, 900 yearly.
II. What is the average daily earn
ing of an American locomotive? Ans.
About 500.
Is. What is the longest American
tunnel? Ans. Hoosac tunnel, on the
Fitchburg Railroad. (4a miles.
ID. What is the average cost Of
constructing mile of railroad ? Ans.
At the present time about $50, 900.
10. Where and when was the first
sleeping car used? Ans. Upon the
Cumberland Valley Railroad In Penn
sylvania; from 1886 to 1913.
Is. What are the chances of fatal
accident in railway travel? Ans.
One killed in ten million. Statistics
show more are killed by falling out of
windows than in railway accidents.
II. What line of railway extends
furtherest East and West? Ans.
Canadian Pacific Railway, running
from Quebec to the Pacific Ocean.
IS. How long does steel rail last?
Ans. About eighteen years.
10. What road carries the largest
number of commuters? Ans. Illi-
nois Central, 1892, 128, in 1887.
20. What is the fastest time made
between Jersey City and San Fran
cisco? Ans. 5 days, I hours, 80 min
utes and 16 seconds. Special theatre
cal train, June 1876.
ELECTRICITY.
l. How strong current is used to
send message over an Atlantic
cable? 80 cells of battery only.
Equal to 80 volts.
2. What is the longest distance
over which conversation by telephone
is daily maintained? Ans. About
100 miles from Portland, Maine, to
Buffalo, New York.
8. What is the fastest time made
by an electric railway? Ans. A
mile minute by small experiment
tai car. 20 miles an hour on street
railway system.
4. How many miles of submarine
cable are there IN operation? Ans.
Over loo, 900 miles, or enough to Cir
die the earth four times.
5. What is the maxium power gen.
Grated by an electric motor? Ans.
rs horse power. Experiments indi
cate that loo horse power will soon be
reached.
6. How is break in submarine
cable located? Ans. By measuring
the amount lof electricity needed to
charge the remaining unbrOken part.
7. How many miles of telegraph
wire in operation in the United
State? Ans. Over a million, or
enough to encircle the globe forty
times.
s. How many messages can be
transmitted over a wire at one time +?
Ans. Four. by a quadruplex system
in daily use.
9. How is telegraphing from a
moving train accomplished? Ans.
Through a circuit from the car roof
inducing a current in the wire on
poles along the track.
10. What are the most widely sep
arated points between which it is pos
sible to send a telegram? Ans.
British Columbia and New Zealand,
via America and Europe.
IL. How many miles of telephone
wire in operation in the United
States? Ans. More than Ito, 900 over
which 1,o55 900 messages are sent
daily.
IL. What il the greatest candle
power Of arc light used in light
house? Ans. Two million. in light
house at HOustholm, Denmark.
ID. How many persons in the
United States are engaged in business
depending solely on electricity? Ans.
Estimated 25o, 700.
IA. How long does 1t take TO trans
init message from San Francisco to
Hong Kong? Ans. About fifteen
minutes, via New York, Canso, PEN
zance, Alden, Bombay, Madras. Pen
ang and Singapore.
l5. What is the fastest time made
by an operator sending messages by
Morse system? Ans. About forty
two words per minute.
l6. How many telephones are in
use in the United States? Ans. About
300. 900. EtNH Fr
IL. What war vessel has the most
complete electrical plant? Aus. Unit
ed States man OF war, Chicago"
Is. What Is the average cost, per
mile. Of transatlantic submarine
cable? Ans. About 81 900.
IS. How many miles OF electric
railway are there in operation in the
United States? Ans. About 400
miles, and much more under construe.
tion.