The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-26
SOUTH DAKOTA THURSDAY, 1900
N. WESTERN ADDS
NEW EQUIPMENT
Largest Order for Steel Cars and
Rails I'm History of Road

Chicago, Aug. 2l.-Convinced that
the country is entering a new period
of unprecedented prosperity. the
railroads are beginning to order
equipment, power and steel rails
with prodigalty which has been
unknown for several years.
Order for equipment and power
necessitating an aggregate expendi-
ture of approximately Sill. 600, 900
were officially announced yesterday
bv the North Western
The order is an index to the con-
viction among railroad managers
that business is soon gong to APP
proximate that of the recent phen-
omenal period of prosperity. The
manufacturers of railroad supplies,
of equipment and of power, as we'll
as the steel rail manufacturers. are
exerting every effort to get ready
for the rush of orders that already
has begun.
Many thousands of men are being
put to work in the steel mills and in
the manufacturing plants through
out the country. and the supply
companies are re.employing many
statesmen who were discharged dur
ing the panic which began in Octo-
Der. 1907.
The orders by the North Western
road for equipment and power and
the order of the Santa Fe for steel
rails are among the largest in the
history of those two roads.
In connection with the North
Westerns orders, the company has
adopted an all-steel car for its pas
senger service and will replace the
present equipment with such cars
as rapidly as possible. The present
order for passenger equipment is for
lbs all-steel cars, to be placed in SER
vice on different portions of the
road. These cars are as near fire.
proof as it is possible to make them
and as nearly indestructible as they
can be built under the present state
of development of the car builders
art.
There will be forty passenger
coaches. fifteen smoking cars, twen-
ty chair cars. twelve parlor cars,
five dining cars, seventeen baggage.
and sixteen mail cars.
The cost of this equipment will be
approximately 100000. The new
dining cars will be longer than US
ual. seating six more persons than
the present standard car.
The company also has ordered 125
locomotives, of which fifty will be
freight engines of the consolidation
type and the rest passenger engines
of the Pacific type.
The freight engines will weigh
lis tons and the passenger engines
lie tons. The latter are guarantee
ed to haul train of fourteen heavy
Pullman cars at a speed of sixty
miles an hour. They will have
driving wheels seventy five inches
in diameter. This item will be near
ly So, 25O,O
The third items of the North
Westerns order is made up of 5000
freight cars. Of this number, $500
will be boy cars. $500 gondola cars,
600 refrigerator cars, 500 ore cars,
300 fat cars and 300 stock cars. The
expenditure for this item will be
approximately 81, 100000.
The delivery of the PASSENGER cars
will begin in October and end in
January. the locomotives will be all
in by December, and the freight
cars will be several months in being
delivered.
All of the passenger equipment
will be additional equipment, and rs
per cent of the freight equipment
and of the power will be additional
and not in the nature of renewals.