Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-30
FREIGHT GAR
 THE ARlSTOCRAT

traffic, transportation of mails and miscellaneous sources. The operating expenses were $101 .000, ,000 The pas senger traffic did not pay one-third of them
 Let all the locomotives, passenger and freight ears owned by the rail. roads be brought to a standstill on their respective tracks and an even better idea would be obtained of the | relative importance of the freight and passenger traffic There are over 220,02S miles of road in the United States. According to the Interstate ! Commerce Commissions report for 1 1905, there were 1,692.1 freight cars. or between seven and eight for every mile of track. To revert to the big ger roads close at hand the traveller i might look where he would and see standing on every mile of New York Central track at least one locomotive and on car in the passenger service, and twenty-one cars in the company service.
 There are more locomotives than passenger cars on the Pennsylvania lines east of Erie and Pittsburg. The 6,397 locomotives mean nearly two for every mile of track. The 5,379 pas senger cars offer an equipment of about one and a half for every mile of track. The same system operates 236,l5 freight cars. If these were gathered together there would be six ty-two cars covering nearly one-half of every mile of track If placed end on end the cars would make a freight train over 2,000 miles long, or extend ing from New York to San Francisco.
 The extent to which cars are inter- changed by railroads is shown by the figures of the New York Central sys- tenn. There are approximately 69 900 cars owned by the system in the freight service. Of these. in a recent week. 40.S00 were on the Vanderbilt lines and 26.3OO, or one-third. were on foreign roads. There were, however, 35.600 cars of other roads on the Van derbilt lines. The road had apparent ly gained $500 more cars than it had lost.
 Then the wanderings of the cars were illustrated by the car account between the New York Central sys- tenn and the most distant lines. On this date the Union Pacific had 264 New York Central cars on its road, the Vanderbilt system had forty-seyen Union Pacific cars-a loss of PIT cars for the Eastern line. The Great North ern had 116 New York Central cars. the Vanderbilt lines 103 cars of the J. J. Hill road--a balance that was approximately adjusted
 The reports of the Pennsylvania System show that on July 1 the cor poration was s)ser by some 12.OOO cars in its exchanges with other roads. The entire system, east and west, owns or controls 227,172 freight cars. Of these, 13S,053 were in the service of the company on the date mentioned. 9,394 were in the shop and special service, 5,s63 were being re- built. and 7S,862 were on foreign roads.
 The total number of foreign cars on the Pennsylvania system was 61 ,290. so that there were 12,572, more Penn sylvania cars on foreign roads than foreign cars in the custody of that railroad system.~
 The cars are exchanged according to a well recognized law of the road When a loaded car from a foreign road reaches it's destination the policy is to return it to the owners as soon as possible. and keep it loaded all the way. for an empty car-rrr transit means a loss. whoever may hold it.
 For example: As a reporter was chatting with the car accountants of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Phila- delphia lastsweek telegram was laid on the desk of one of them. It was from a division superintendent in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylva- nia He said that the Reading Rail- way had in hand a large shipment of anthracite coal to Milwaukee and had asked the Pennsylvania to furnish a certain nnmber of cars. The Penn sylvania agreed to the request A search was started along it's neighbor- ing line for empty cars, and the ef- fort was made to obtain as many as possible of the cars belonging to the roads passing through Milwaukee. , When the shipment was completed most of the empty cars would be on or near their home roads.
 As the accountant talked a clerk brought him a telegram. He glanced at it, indorsed something at the bot tom and sent it to the telegraph of flee.
 Here is case in point" he said. "One C. B. & o. car is being loaded with merchandise in Waynesboro, on the Cumberland Valley Railroad, con signed to Denver. We routed it by our lines to Chicago, by the Chicago & Northwestern to Omaha, and over the c. B. & Q.-the home road of the car-for the last 700 miles to Denver. That telegram was from the c. B. & Q. The road wants the car delivered at Chicago instead of Denver, so it can earn the additioqRl mileage that would otherwise go to the Chicago & Northwestern" i How did they find out about sin
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