Operating expenses and taxes per mile of road, operated (495,481 miles)... $ 1,982.58 Operating expenses and taxes per train mile run, for trains earning revenue (1,184,356 miles)... .8294 Proportion of operating expenses and taxes for Iowa.... $ 813,329.31 150,664.79 Expense of running and management of all trains earning revenue.. senger trains per train mile.. Expenses of running and management of freight trains.... Expense of running and management of freight trains, per train mile. Percentage of expenses to earnings. 73.66 .4179 831,673.37 1.0095 .8294 GENERAL EXHIBIT. Total expenses, including taxes. Total earnings. Net earnings.. Interest paid during the year on account of the road in Iowa Net deficit after operating expenses, taxes, interest and rental.. Amount absorbed in construction and old indebtedness less rolling stock paid for with bonds.. $ 737,133.68 Amount absorbed in leased rolling stock. 120,848.85 Amount in material and balances from other roads and cash 228,090.26 Total... ...$ 1,086,072.79 GENERAL BALANCE SHEET, AT THE CLOSING OF ACCOUNTS, JUNE 30, 1885. DEBIT. Cost of all construction, equipment and franchises.. Paid on old indebtedness (old company). Miscellaneous book accounts. Material on hand. $ 18,587,800.00 646,211.46 106.922.22 628,848.85 228,090.26 DESCRIPTION OF ROAD. Length main line of road from Albia to Northwood... Length main line of road from Oskaloosa to Mississippi 189.140 River. 95.170 284.310 88.649 Belmond branch. Story City branch. State Center branch. Montezuma branch. 22.203 34.510 26.640 13.612 Newton branch, including Lynnville stub.. Muchakinock branch.... 30.200 1.500 Total length of branches owned by this company. Aggregate length of track, computed as single track, exclu Total length of steel rails in tracks in Iowa, exclusive of sidings.... Peoria & Pekin Union Railway-Iowa Junction, Illinois, ROAD AND BRANCHES BELONGING TO OTHER COMPANIES, OPERATED BY THE COMPANY UNDER LEASE OR CONTRACT. Less distance, Manly Junction, Iowa, to Northwood, Iowa, leased to B., C. R & N. R'y Co. 11.64 Total miles of road operated by this company* Total miles of road operated by this company in Iowa.. 495,484 402.835 STATIONS. Number of stations on all roads owned by this company. Number of stations on all roads operated by this company.. Number of telegraph offices in stations in Iowa. 97 77 97 75 64 EMPLOYES. Number of persons regularly employed on all roads operated by this company. Same in lowa. Amount paid employes, including officials, on all roads ope rated by this company. Same in Iowa. BRIDGES IN IOWA. 1,100, 940 601,525.07 514,410.47 Aggregate No. length. Wooden truss bridges over 100 feet in length Amount of timber used in renewals of wooden bridges during the year (feet B. M.). Give the average number of years the trestle and pile bridges last on your road in Iowa. 228,736 10 Give the average number of years that wooden truss bridges last on your road in Iowa. 9 ROAD-BED AND TRACK. Number of track sections in Iowa.. Average length of sections, miles Average number of men in each section gang. Number of new ties laid in track during the year in Iowa.. New rails laid in track during the year in Iowa-steel (510 Total track laid with new rails during the year in Iowa, miles. What is the average number of years that iron rails last in your track on main line in Iowa.. What is the average number of years that ties last in your track in Iowa? 心 57 9 4 48,364 120 5.491 5.491 10 7 to 8 6 What railroad crosses your road at grade, and at what locality? Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, at Mason City, State Center Junction and Hedrick. Illinois Central, at Ackley. Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern, at Abbott and Morning Sun. Chicago, Iowa & Dakota, at Eldora. Chicago & Northwestern, at Gifford, Marshalltown, and 1 mile west of Wright. Wisconsin, Iowa & Nebraska, at Marshalltown, and 1 mile west of State Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, at Grinnell and Given. Burlington & Western (narrow guage), at Winfield. Burlington & Northwestern (narrow guage), at one mile east of Oskaloosa, one mile west of Hedrick, one and one-fourth miles west of Martinsburg, and at Brighton. What railroads cross your road, either over or under, and at what locality? Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul,Council Bluffs Division, at Pickering. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, Washington Branch, at Oskaloosa. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, Southwestern Division, at Brighton. Number of highway crossings at grade Number of highway crossings at which there are flagmen... Number of highway crossings under railroad. Number of highway bridges 18 feet above track.. Number of highway bridges less than 18 feet above track....... FENCING IN IOWA. 377 3 3 5 3 None. How many miles of your road in Iowa are fenced How many miles of new fencing have you built during the year ... 34. Give the number of miles needed on both sides of your track in each county in Iowa: Total miles of road.... Maximum weight of locomotives and tenders, tons .. Maximum weight of passenger cars, tons Average weight of passenger cars, tons Number of cars equipped with train brake.. Number of passenger cars equipped with Miller platform and buffer. The amount of tonage that can be carried over your road exclusive of cars, by an engine of given weight, Weight of engine, 60 tons; maximum, 525 tons; minimum, 270 tons: |