Length main line of road from California Junction to Fremont, 31.77 miles; from Missouri Valley, Iowa, to Sioux City, 75.65 miles-total miles..... Length main line of road in Iowa. Length main line of road in Nebraska. Total length of road belonging to this company. Total length of road belonging to this company in lowa.... Aggregate length of sidings and other tracks not above enumerated.. $ 2,068,400.00 3,256,320.00 144,300.00 2,957.49 217,464.00 36,320.82 4,834.15 1,659,695.89 $ 7,390,292.35 107.42 80.47 26.95 107.42 80.47 14.88 Same in Iowa.. 12.10 Aggregate length of track, computed as single track, exclus Total length of steel rails in track in Iowa, exclusive of sid ings. 19.00 Total length of iron rails in tracks in Iowa, exclusive of sid Total miles road operated by this company in Iowa..... 80.47 STATIONS. Number of stations on all roads owned by this company. Same in Iowa.. Number of stations on all roads operated by this company. Number of telegraph offices in stations in Iowa. EMPLOYES. Number of persons regularly employed on all roads operated by this company. Amount paid employes, including officials, on all roads operated by this company in Iowa. CATTLE-GUARDS. .. 182 6058 RENEWAL OF BRIDGES AND CULVERTS IN IOWA. 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.. Give the average number of years that wooden truss bridges last on your road in Iowa.. 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 (511 2011-2240 tons) miles. What is the average number of years that iron rails last in your track on main line in Iowa, years What is the average number of years that ties last in your track in Iowa, years. CROSSINGS IN IOWA. 16,111 8 to 12 10 13 6.2 7.2 23,193 288 5 4516-10560 10 7 What railroad crosses your road at grade, and at what locality: Number of highway crossings at grade... 81 Number of highway crossings at which there are flagmen 1 FENCING IN IOWA. How many miles of your road in Iowa are fenced.. What is the average cost per rod, cents. What is the total cost of same. Maximum weight of locomotives and tenders, tons. 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 32 tons, tons.. 14 820 Aver: ge number of cars in passenger trains. Aver ge weight of passenger trains, exclusive of passengers pinds. 5 180,850 Ave ge number of cars in freight trains.. 20 Ave age weight of freight trains, exclusive of freight, pounds 382,000 Total passenger mileage, or passengers carried one mile 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 rate per ton per mile received for through freight.$ ! 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... 29.42 29.83 739,629 638,158 308,222 271,375 1,957,384 SPEED OF TRAINS IN IOWA. Rate of speed of passenger trains, including stops, miles. TONNAGE OF ARTICLES TRANSPORTED. 25 11 TONNAGE CROSSING THE MISSOURI RIVER BRIDGE AT BLAIR, NEB., FOR Manufactures, articles shipped from point of production. PER TONS. CENT. 82,125 26.33 1,426 .46 4,262 1.37 35,212 11.29 6,929 2.22 62,885 20.16 19,105 6.12 2,671 .86 2,818 .90 ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS. EXPRESS COMPANIES. What express companies run on your road, and on what terms, and what conditions as to rates, etc.; what kind of business is done by them, and do you take their freights at the depot, or at the office of such express company? The American Express Company and Wells, Fargo & Co. have the right to do express business on the line, paying various rates, depending upon the weight carried and space in car occupied. They deliver their freight into this company's cars. SLEEPING CARS. Do sleeping, parlor, or dining cars run on your road, and if so, on what terms do they run, by whom are they owned, and what charges are made in addition to regular passenger rates? Sleeping-cars are run, owned by Pullman Palace Car Company and by the New York Central Sleeping Car Company, by which Companies the charges are made and collected. Neither parlor or dining cars are run on this company's road. What is the total amount paid by your company to palace or sleeping car companies, to what companies, and the amount paid to each? Please statê fully the arrangement by which these cars run on your road, the terms, and who receives the earnings. To Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul & Omaha Railway Co. for Pullman Sleepers, $1,778.40; to Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. for New York Central Sleepers, $972.80. |