The Railway Library, 1909 A Collection of Noteworthy Chapters, Addresses, and Papers Relating to Railways, Mostly Published During the Year

"Another city down here where we were beautifully entertained last night, Tacoma--I remember when we came out here they really did not need us and we did not want to force ourse...

You will remember that I said the Budget amounted to $16,000,000 on January 1, 1907. That was just before this wave of anti-railroad legislation referred to had fully developed;...

The railroads make low rates on fertilizer to encourage its use by the farmers, it being, of course, to the interest of a railroad to encourage the production of larger crops th...

Reconciliation of private capital and the users of railroads might, of course, be brought about by government ownership, because if there were a deficit the people could pay it...

I have endeavored to sketch briefly what should be the attitude of the railway man _as_ a railway man toward the public. I am sure I voice the sentiment of all managing railroad...

It has in all these acts recognized the right of the responsible managers of the transportation interests of the country to fix the rates for transportation, as upon its revenue...

I have indicated what in America, where the subject is much more carefully considered than here, is regarded as a great obstacle to a state-railroad system; but I have pointed o...

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The freight on a steel range, weighing from 400 to 500 pounds, from Detroit to points in the Mississippi Valley, approximates from $2 to $2.50 per stove on stoves which retail a...

Had the Government, through its Interstate Commerce Commission, vigorously undertaken to enforce the law--passing if necessary, long before it did, the Elkins Act--I think we sh...

"Proceedings legislative in nature are not proceedings in a court within the meaning of the Revised Statutes, section 720, no matter what may be the general or dominant characte...

The original method of heating passenger cars by direct radiation from coal or wood stoves was a source of discomfort to the passengers as well as a menace in case of disaster....

But would it be possible for State railways to reduce the amount included in railway rates for interest and dividends? It cannot be denied that our present system does involve t...

Mr. W. R. Lawson, an Englishman, who investigated our railroads in 1903, wrote upon his return, in his book on American Industrial Problems: "The science of transportation is go...

"The Portage Railroad consists of eleven levels, or graded lines, and ten inclined planes. The ascent from Johnstown to the summit is 1,171.58 feet, in a distance of 26.59 miles...

Of these 46,434 miles of railroads only 1,134 miles approximately, or 2½ percent, are double track. It is possible that the next ten years will see at least one-fourth, or over...

Before 1807 the country had come to be divided into three sections: the commercial, shipbuilding East, the cotton and tobacco exporting South, and the isolated grain growing int...

With the solution of a means of train control came a further growth in their size and weight; sooner or later this had to emphasize the necessity for efficient coupling devices....

The fifth cause is the one which, I think, has more to do with the initiation of the discussion of nationalization schemes than any other cause. This is the general tendency of...

In South America, Peru and Argentina own, as far as I am aware, no railroads. The Chilian government owns about 1,600 miles out of the 3,000 miles in the country. Needless to sa...

With the better understanding of the problem of the railroad by the public through and in connection with the special boards represented here today, it might not be amiss to exp...

8. On the face of this amendment, it seems only to give to the commission the authority to prevent an increase in rates, but the practical result of such a law would be far more...

The saving to the railroads from reduction in car mileage that would be possible if it were not obliged to furnish traveling postoffices, but could use the space occupied by rac...

The foregoing shows an increase, in the average interest rate demanded upon new loans to railway corporations, from 3.90 per cent. in 1897 to 4.62 in 1907 and 5.04 in 1908. The...

Fractions have been left in the form a/b except for ¼ ½ ¾. A dozen or so occurrences of 'nn a-b' have been changed to 'nn-a/b', mainly on pages 27-40, for consistency.

A computation has been made of ton mileage on each individual mail route by multiplying weight carried by length of route; to the sum of these we add the dead weight of cars. Th...

Of the several routes proposed, I found no difficulty--after a careful inspection of the plans of the various surveys, made under the authority of the Commonwealth, and my recon...

The second annual report of the government Block Signal and Train Control Board shows that little advance has been made in the search after the perfect system of automatic mecha...

Angle Bars Cwt. 1.02 1.55 52.0 Axles-- Locomotive Cwt. 2.75 2.95 7.2 Cwt. 2.72 2.85 4.7 Tender Cwt. 1.40 2.35 67.8 Car Cwt. 1.60 1.95 21.9 Cwt. 1.45 2.20 51.7 Cwt. 1.68 2.25 34....

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Alabama $0.88 $1.29 46.59 Arkansas 1.06 1.68 56.49 California (a)2.55 (a)3.81 49.41 Colorado 1.17 1.40 19.66 Georgia (b)1.03 (b)1.38 33.98 Idaho (c)3.33 (c)4.10 23.12 Illinois ....

The most striking feature in this table is the steady advance it shows in the capital cost of German railways. In ten years this has increased from 251,597 marks per kilometer i...

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10. The act of June 29, 1906, took effect August 28, 1906. It has been operative only about twenty-eight months. During half of that period of time the country has experienced t...

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By adding the auxiliary trackage reported to this Bureau for 1909 to the 234,182 miles of operated line reported to the Interstate Commerce Commission for June 30 of that year,...

This table proves that the area of perfect safety, so to speak, was extended over from 22% to 26% more units of risk in 1909 than in 1908, which already held the palm for immuni...

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For the first time, the reports to this Bureau cover the division of freight movement into the seven chief commodities; the separation of revenues from Mail and Express; the dis...

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The region with rates above the average in 1897 had 45.23 per cent. of the total ton-mileage in that year, and 48.07 per cent. in the year 1907. Of the total increase in traffic...

Nothing in the record of railway development in the United States has increased with the rapidity of the cost of their regulation under the act creating the Interstate Commerce...

Fractions have been left in the form a/b except for ¼ ½ ¾. A dozen or so occurrences of 'nn a-b' have been changed to 'nn-a/b', mainly on pages 27-40, for consistency.