The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-04-10
FREIGHT CARS.
Improvements in Construct IN Of
These LAUNDERING Vehicles.
Special Cars for Chickens Win
Permanent Coops.

freight cars to suggest that any great
amount of care has been taken in their
The long trains OF
huge, ungainly boxes wind their way
around curves, under bridges aud
through the cuts of the city without
exciting even speculative interest IN
the beholder. Yet the hundreds OF
cars Of this sort that pass daily
through New Haven illustrate ae.
velopment in construction as remark
able as are the luxurious palace cars
of today compared to the passenger
coaches of half century ago.
In these days every large shipper
mus. have his own private freight
cars. saws the New Haven Register. In
every train, almost, one viii ma
half dozen or moro special cars. and
the purposes they serve are as varied
as their ownership. They provide spe-
cial accommodation for every con-
ceiyable kind of freight.
The refrigerator cars, used Tor the
| transportation OF dressed meat and
similar perishable products, were
among the first specially constructed
freight cars. They are now so well
known as to excite no interest, unless
| it be in vain speculation as to now
many millions OF dollars are represent
ed by them, for their number Is
legion.
Directly the opposite of the reirig-
orators are the heater cars, cleveriy
coutriyed to keep the contents at
fixed degree of temperature through
ont the trip. and therefore invaluable
) for shipping fruit in cold weather.
The heating is done by oil stoves.
There are qnite number OF special
fruit car. companies which own cars
!; specially equipped for the carriage O
q fruit and produce in bulk, and these
i cars are divided into many classes,
> such as orange cars, cabbage cars
melon cars and SO on almost indeh
nitely.
y There is a pickle line, coffee line, nun
Is berless beer lines, and. strangest OF all
re a chicken or poultry line, these iattol
], cars being filed with permanent coop
m and feeding and watering facilities, IN
~ tended for tho safe handling OF fowl
tn of all kinds There are furniture cars
,g buggy cars, chair stock cars, ice cars
sl' plate glsss cars, crockery cars. ane
indeed, cars for almost every know
commodity manufactured in snfficiel
quantities to make it worth while 4
ne the producers to build their own col
= veyances.
5ie As to live stock cars, there are
'ht kinds. from the palace or stable car
'u' down to the plain, everyday SLATE
eA affairs, and, unlike most OF the 9th
'u- special vehicles, the stock cars can
e. used by any shipper willing to pay Il
re- owner q nominal sum for the re-
OF of the car, over aud above the usr
se- freight charge imposed by the ra
the roads, the advantage gained being !
'ns much better Accommodations afford
an- by these special cars than given IN
ola regular equipment Of the railway.
fm' The owners Of these private cars
out no direct benefit from their use.
ara contents must pay just the 50
10 freight charges as if carried IN r
apt road companies cars, but the
ucn great advantage lies in the fact tbs
ears supply of cars ready to load
Try always be depended upon, for
AZ special cars, when empty. are promp
ra'- sent home or to their point OF orit
'ean and are not used ia any other tr
INTO without the owners permission.
ne railroad allows owners a trifiing
tue for mileage, which serves to keep
cary cars in repair, but hardly yields
'on' crea. revenue to them.
" % OF course, many OF these PR
cona cars are built because of tho spe
zap trade ia which they are used,
re which would not repay rail-
'r'zo' company to tie up money in fnrn
> the ing the equipment necessary.
ior builders must conform to the rui
u To- the master car builder, the pri
tue cars are as safe to run as those o'
~ 70 by the railroad companies aud
. 10 deed, many are superior to the
upper ..r. l. general use.
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