Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-17
PENNSY IN MARKET
FOR NEW EQUIPMENT
Continued from First Page.l

McCaleb and other Philadelphia di-
vision officials that benefits will come
indirectly as a result of this large
expenditure, because more equipment
means more repair work.
The invitation of bids to-day marks
practically the first equipment buying
of any magnitude by the Pennnsyl-
Vania for more than a year.
As in the past the other great rail
road systems of the East and West
are expected to follow in the footsteps
of the Pennsylvania. The Lehigh Val
ley recently announced II would let
contracts aggreSating Sl,OOO.OOO and
the other carriers will no doubt follow
suit.
The Pennsylvania order is the most
comprehensive of recent years. Be
cause of it's magnitude it is expected
to stimulate activity in railroad circles.
The locomotives and most of the
cars will be built i'm the company S
own shops. This feature of the an
nouncement is one which will prove
encouraging to the thousands en-
ployed in the railroads shops at Al
toona, many of whom have been work
ing on short time.
OF significant importance is the
statement that in addition to adding
only steel cars to its passenger equip
ment the COMPANY intends to follow
similar policy with reference to its
freight equipment, so that ultimately
every train on the Pennsylvania lines,
whether passenger or freight. will be
of all-Steel construction.
While the number of cars and loco
motives to be built exceeds recent or
ders. it was explained that there would
be no increase in the equipment. The
rev equipment will merely replace
that now in service.
The only equipment orders placed
with outside companies in 1914 were
for fifty locomotives from the Baldwin
Locomotive Works and for 1000
freight cars with the Cam bria Steel
Company. About the first of the pres
ent year the railroad placed its steel
rail order and its size forecast a big
equipment order.
The passenger equipment is divided
into so standard coaches, "a combi-
/ nation cars, AZ baggage and mail cars
10 baggage and express cars and 3
( horse express cars.
OF the 10000 freight cars bids will
he asked on 1.643 cars, which the
company plans to have built by out
side companies. The others will be
built at the shops and bids on ma
terial will be requested. All the cars
will be of steel. The freight car pro-
gram calls for the following: 1000
steel box cars. $500 gondola cars
Ts"A' Nbfil anu tONt cars =
orator cars and 1912 fiat cars.
The company plans to build in the
car shops at Altoona 1000 of the box
cars, 1000 of the gondola cars and all
of the refrigerator and fiat cars.
Since 1906, when the company an
nounced that all future additions and
replacement in its passenger equip
ment would be of all-steel construc-
tion, it has provided more than 1000
all-steel passenger cars, not counting
the all-steel Pullman cars in service
on the system.
About month ago the Cumberland
Valley Railroad. a subsidiary of the
Pennsylvania. awarded an $500. 900
contract for the construction of a
bridge across the Susquehanna river
at Harrisburg. This was the first large
construction contract let in a long
while.
The board of directors of the Penn
sylvania Railroad met on Wednesday
and it is believed that at that time
they passed upon the order, giving it
their stamp of approval.
The company will to-day open bids
for the building of ninety Of these
passenger cars, while inquiries will
also be made on prices for materials
for the other fifty-six. which will be
built at Altoona.