The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-07-13
RAILROADS
OF AMERICA
AHD EUROPE.
Foreigners Exceed In Amount
Of Double Track and
Other Features
(I3y Leased Wirel

Washington ID. C, July l3-
Through 4 statistical board maintain
ed In Tie American capital by the
railroads oil the country, and known
as the bureau OF Railway economies
all instructive business comparison
of the American roads with those of
/ the principal countries OF Europe is
made possible The first difficulty
that ds encountered in the making OF
comparisons, is an absence Of certain
data for the lines OF the United King
dom on certain phases Of passenger
traffic. The figures Of the bureau
OF economies however, enable the
making OF at least twenty interesting
comparisons between the lines of the
/ uniled States, the United Kingdom
Francs and Prnssia.Ilesse for the
year 1908.
First of all ii can be shown that
while the aggregate number OF miles
or railways operated in the United
States is ESQ 494 as compared with
23.2 205 FOR England, 2l,93l Tor France
and 22.B57 for Prussa7lIesse, the per
cent of American lines having two
0r more tracks was only SIS ON com
pared with 55.7 per cent for the
/ tNltcu RiHNNoltt 10 ljGt NIMA Iva
France and 41.S per cent for Prussia
| Hesse.
Relative capitalization.
On the subject Of relative capital
! ization per mile the comparison is
imperfect, because the American fig
| ures are only for net capitalization,
/ Overlooking this factor for the Amer
ican lines, the comparison is as fol-
lows United States, $5720l per
mile: United Kingdom $274 S42;
1 France (cost OF construction, S14l,-
| 401 Prussia-IIesse. $10S,293
In rolling stock equipment, the
| European countries named far ex
coed the United States, Thus the
! United Kingdom has $50 locomotives
1 and 36.190 cars of all kinds per 1000
/ miles of line Prnssiasaesse, 4S0 To-
1 e0motives and "a ,704 cars, as COM
/ pared with ZIG locomotives and 1850
I cars per l900 miles of line for the
/ United States. In this connection 1T
/ should be noteti that the average
capacity OF the American freight
4 cars Is IS tons while those of the
4 European countries vary from l3
tons for France to 1873 tons for the
/ 4 i un9aitA1A 1AtTnaA * iAttps fAr0iht tht HN
erage seating capacity OF the Ameri-
can eoaehes liz about ten persons
| per coach greater than in
! Europe
1 While the operating revenues and
the operating expenses OF the Amer
lcan roads can not be compared
| strictly with those OF European lines
hecause of differences IN accounting
methods, d fairly good comparison Is
! possible rms shows that the oper-
ating revenues per nile in England
are S23,1St aud the operating eX-
penses sl5,159 leaving a net operat-
ing revenue per mile of $S,025; prus-
siaiIiesse operating revenue $20,221.
operating expenses $l4,62t, not oper-
ating revenue $4,000; France operat-
! ing revenue, SlS,A06 operating eX-
| pensos, S1765. and net operating rev
enao. Sa.6fl United states operating
revenue $i0,aQi operating expenses
/ $500 and net operating revenue,
| $3,11l.
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