Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-31
WHAT RAILRoADlEG COSTS.
Interesting Facts Regarding Consoli-
 dated Roads Equipment.


 dated Roads Equipment. It is not generally known, but it is none the less true, that the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- road has one of the greatest passen- ger traffics of any railroad system in the country. 1t is an odd fact that up to within the past year the passen- ger receipts exceeded the freight re- ceipts, but at the present time the freight business has so enormously in creased that the revenue from this source Is now up to that derived from the passenger service To operate this great system costs annually a princely fortune. Some idea or the extent of the business done by the great Consolidated corporation may De gathered from some of these facts told to Register reporter to-day by, a railroad official in the course of anl interview on the growth and progress of the road that has made New Ha- ven such center of transportation.
 The road owns and operates 451 passenger locomotives and 32O freight engines, total of 911. In its car ser vice are 1,16S first class passenger coaches, 271 combination cars, 3 din ing cars, 94 parlor cars, 27 sleeping cars and 259 baggage, express and pos tai cars.
 In the freight service there are at present in operation 5,779 box cars, 2,013 flat cars, IS stock cars, 5,3O5 coal cars and l tank car, making a total of passenger and freight cars of 13,- 116. Added to these there are in the company's service If officers and pay cars; A derrick cars, 2S5 caboose cars and 245 other road cars, making the total car service of the road 15,526, which will probably be considerably increased by the addition of neSE.ars before the year ends.
 The passenger service of this road for last year showed up large. There was carried for distance of one mile 943,368. The average distance of pas senger carriage was 1911 miles and the revenue received from the passan- ger service alone aggregated $16,- 754, ,561.60, an average from each pas senger carried of 50 cents. The total passenger earnings of the road were $19, ,I64, ,754.T7, or $9,726 per mile.
 The gross earnings of the road from operation were SAC, 1925, 151. .SS
 averaging $19,S44 per mile of opera ton.
 Some idea may be had of the great passenger service of this road when ii is stated that the passenger car mile
 age alone was 56,659,042 miles with an l average of Al passenger cars to the train. These cars carried an average of 6S passengers.
 The mileage of revenue passenger l trains as shown by the returns of last l year aggregated 13,569, ,271. 1.-The mile age of revenue mixed trains was 224,- S42 and, the mileage of revenue fright trains was 6,344, t44, making the total fevehne train iflffeage 20, f3S,257,s aiftl a mileage s6f' thonarevehueI tra fIs Q igf 5,336, ,267 miles.
 To keep the big corporation in ope-
 ration requires mint of money. Ii
 cost for the year for salaries and wages alone $16,712 223.2 .21, of which sum $203, ,O16.73 was paid to the gen. eral officers and the balance, $16,- 509, ,2064S, went to the general admin istration, maintenance of way and structures, maintenance of equipment
 and constructing department.
 The Consolidated road employs an army of wOrkmen aggregating 26,- 151, besides % general officers. Some idea of the enorfnous aggregate work done by these emen maylube gleaned when it is stated that this army. of 1 workmen labored a total of S,34S, ,o59
 days, all together the days of the 29 general officers aggregating S,946 It cost $5,372, ,404. 12 for the main tenance of way and structure, main tenance and equipment cost $4,725,- 090.77 more, while conducting trans portation alone necessitated an ex- penditure of SIT, ,341, ,036.O2.
 The Consolidated road operates now 2,013.0S miles of road, comprising g distinct roads incorporated in it's vast | system.
 Contrasted with these figures it is interesting to know what the growth of the great system has been in the astldeeade. Tenlyeafs tllen t6tal II in | com8 for tpassengers aggTe Tegated $5,. 1 39S,01084, and five years bpreviouss Id that, it was onlyl $4 225, ,69S. 20. !. The 1 income from freight ten years, ago was $4,4S9, ,610.96. The total passengers carried was 13,14S, ,14O. The total gross earnings of the road ten years ago was $10, 749, ,167.54 and operating expenses cost just $7,379. .774. .49. In those days the road had 2O9 To- comotives, 5S3 passenger cars and 4,378 freight cars. It operated them 367.S3 miles of steel rails and 67.56 miles of iron rails, total of 525.S
 miles of road operated.
 The report of the big corporation to date is now under way and will be
 presented in full at the coming meet ing of the directors. It will show a show substantial growth along al departments of the road and espec- ially a gratifying increase in freight
 traffic.-New Haven Register.