ROAD AND BRANCHES BELONGING TO OTHER COMPANIES OPERATED BY THIS COMPANY UNDER LEASE OR CONTRACT. Name, description and length of each : Central Iowa Railway, from Manly Junction to Northwood (main line).. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway, from State line to Albert Lea (main line)... 11.39 12.57 Iowa City & Western Railway, from Iowa City to What Cheer and Montezuma. 73.02 ... Cedar Rapids, Iowa Falls & Northwestern Railway, from Holland to 181.51 Cedar Rapids, Iowa Falls & Northwestern Railway, from Dows to Madi son.. 41.07 Cedar Rapids, Iowa Falls & Northwestern Railway, from Lake Park to 164,12 Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway, from State line to Albert Lea......................... 12.57 13.41 Cedar Rapids, Iowa Falls & Northwestern Railway, from Iowa State line to territorial line Dakota (Minn.).... 55.48 81.46 Cedar Rapids, Iowa Falls & Northwestern Railway, from territorial line to Watertown, Dakota. 72.87 If any part of the road was first opened for operation during the past year, state the date.......... None. Number of persons regularly employed on all roads operated by this company (average) Same in Iowa (average)............. 2,277 2,040 Amount paid employes, including officials, on all roads operated by this 1,263,029.52 Amount of timber used in renewals of wooden bridges during the year (feet B. M.) .. Amount of trestle work replaced with earth during the year 542,127 1,063 2 35 3 Cedar River, 4 north of Platt Creek, near Vinton. Total. Give the average number of years the trestle and pile bridges last on your road in Iowa........ Give the average number of years that wooden truss bridges last on your road in Iowa....... 394.11 86 480.11 New rails laid in track during the year in Iowa-iron.......................... None. 27.66 27.66 What is the average number of years that iron rails last in your track on branches in Iowa? From 4 to 8 years. What is the average number of years that steel rails last in your track on What is the average number of years that ties last in your track in Iowa? 7 8 CROSSINGS IN IOWA. What railroad crosses your road at grade, and at what locality? Minneapolis & St. Louis, at Livermore. Central Iowa, at Morning Sun, Abbott and Belmond. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, at Columbus Junction and West Liberty. Chicago & Northwestern, at Cedar Rapids and Goldfield. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, at Cedar Rapids, Nora Junction, Plymouth Junction, Noel, Dixon, Webster, Donnan, Ossian, Emmetsburg, Garner, Sibley, and two miles from Emmetsburg. Illinois Central, at Cedar Falls, Independence and Iowa Falls. Dubuque & Dakota, at Clarksville. Wisconsin, Iowa & Nebraska, now the Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City, at Cedar Falls and Reinbeck. What railroads cross your road, either over or under, and at what locality? Chicago & Northwestern, Nassau, overhead, Iowa City Division. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, at Iowa City, underhead, Iowa City Division. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, at Linn, underhead, main line division. Number of highway crossings at grade..... Number of highway crossings at which there are flagmen 915 5 How many miles of new fencing have you built during the year (double fence) Give the number of miles needed on both sides of your track in each county in Iowa (this year): Benton county... Worth county. Linn county.. Buchanan county... Fayette county Grundy county. Hardin county.. Franklin county 636 1.00 203,571.20 43.06 None. 5.00 2.75 15.75 10.12 12.75 1.75 7.88 12.61 16.36 Wright county.. Muscatine county....... Johnson county.. Washington county. Keokuk county....... Poweshiek county. Osceola county Lyon county Hancock county.. Mahaska county. Tama county... Total miles.... Number of other cars [way cars, 61; derrick and pile driver, 5].. Number of passenger cars equipped with Miller platform and buffer The amount of tonnage that can be carried over your road exclusive of cars, by an engine of given weight. Weight of engine, 54 tons........... 24 22 : 64 34 250 967,301 1,715,443 279,177 81,347 3,043,268 4 85 16 190 PASSENGER TRAFFIC. FREIGHT TRAFFIC. Number of tons of through freight carried Total tons of freight carried Total mileage of through freight (tons carried one mile). Total freight mileage, or tons carried one mile... Average cost per ton per mile to move freight, cents CAR MILEAGE. Number of miles run by loaded freight cars east and south Total freight car mileage Percentage of empty freight cars hauled east and south to all freight cars hauled east and south.... Percentage of empty freight cars hauled west and north to all freight cars hauled west and north 1,165,861 559,441 1,725,302 144,656,522 36,361,756 181,018,278 1 18-100 0.824 87 58-100 9,476,083 10,655,376 3,428,183 2,649,734 26,209,376 26 566-1000 19 915-1000 SPEED OF TRAINS IN IOWA. Rate of speed of passenger trains, including stops, miles (average)...................... *NOTE.-Acting upon the remarks made on page 21 of your report ending June 30, 1885, we have added, in addition to the expense directly charged to freight traffic, a corresponding proportion of the maintenance of way and all other expenditures, which items were left out ín previous years. |