The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-07
RAILWAY EQUIPMENT
ORDERS POURING In
Demand for Rails and Cars I'm.
abated-Italy Is Buy
ing Shells.

Railroads continue actively in the
market for equipment. The Union Pa
cific Railroad Company has placed q
contract for 10000 o OF standard Sec
ton rails. the Chicago and Great West
ern for 5000 tons and the New York
Central a placed a supplementary or
der for 5000 tons with the Illinois Steel
Company. The Chicago mills also &C.
knowledge the receipt of a contract
for $4,000 tons from the Chicago and
Northwestern. The other $4,000 tons
Will como from subsidiary lines. The
Pittsburg and Lake Erie has ordered
5000 tons from h Carnegie Steel Conn.,
pany and the baltimore and Ohio Is
reported 10 have ordered 10000 tons
from the Pennsylvania Steel Company.
The latter road IL still negotiating for
$4,000 to $4,000 tons. all for 1915 ship
ment. Tho Nashville. Chattanooga and
st. Louis mas contracted for 5000 o m
and the Southern Railroad for 10000
tons additional with the Tennessee Coal.
Iron n Railroad Company. This latter
road has also placed a supplementary
order for 1000 tons with the Pennsyl-
vania Steel Company. The Boston n
Maine, II Is understood. will order 10, 900
tons from the Lackawanna Steel Conn.,
pany.
The Michigan Central Railroad has Or
dered 500 box cars from the Haskell &
Barker Ear Company. This makes the
entire contract 1000 cars placed with
this company. Tha American Car and
Foundry Company has received an order
for 100 coal cars for tho Campbell
Creek Coal Company and 80 tank cars
from the Dmlenton Refining Company.
The United States Steel Corporation
h-. 1l-rA all H.~.n 49,
German-Amertcan Oar Company for the
American Steel and wire Company, q,
has ordered s billet cars from the
Youngstown Car and Manufacturing
Company for n use OF the Carnegie
steel Company. Tho Norfolk and West
ern Railroad. in preparation to build
1000 gondola cars In its own shops. has
put inquiries for about $4,000 tons
Of steel. incluting 5000 tons of plates.
1000 tons of sahpes and 1000 tons of
steel bars also for 5000 tons of steel
car axles and $50 tons OF bar iron.
The two steamships reported yester-
day ordered by the Ward Line from the
Cramp Shipbuildlng and Engine Com
pany will each he of 10 1000 tons dis
ously noted. The Ward Line Is still
negotiating for thirteen to fifteen other
boats to be PUT into commission on its
subsidiary lines. 1t seems probable that
several IL not all OF these will eventu-
ally go to the Cramp yards. as they
are thus far able to make better deliv-
cries than most OF the other Eastern
shipbuilding companies. Tit boats just
ordered, however. will probably not be
ready for launching for eighteen months.
Marine work IL still pressing heavily.
It being estimated that forty boats for
domestic and foreign interests are still
under negotiation. The cost OF these
boats will average about $1,000, 0o0
apiece, and the average tonnage OF steel
required will he about 5000, al
though some Of the boats run az high
as 5000. Merchant marine work
pending. therefore. will call for an ex-
penditure Of $780, 900. 900. and will require
about 10000 tons of structural steel
and forgings.
Italy has been quietly placing con
tracts for high explosive shells. one
Eastern company having taken a con-
tract for between 1000, 600 and a.00o.-
900 shells last month, and Is about TO
close a duplicate contract with the ltal-
ian Government representatives. Do
nestle manufacturers or high explosive
shells came into the market yesterday
for about 26. 900 tons of round steel bars
for delivery at the rate or about 1000
tons q month over the whole OF 1916.
Local representatives OF Japanese IN
terests put out an inquiry yesterday TOT
1000 tons OF boiler tubes Tor Shipment
to the Far East during the last quarter
OF this year or as early a. possible.
Additional numerous inquiries for pig
iron to be exported also came out yester-
day. including one lot OF 5000 tons FOR
the Russian Government. one local factor
reports twelve dinerent pig iron m