Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1891 — Some Interesting Figures. [ARTICLE]

Some Interesting Figures.

If all the locomotives in the Knifed States were coupled together they would make a train "00 miles long. Then add the passenger i-ars. and we should have 300 miles more, and if we wanted a huge mixed train, and were to put in all the box, Hat, and every other kind of freight car, our train would he more than 7,00 c miles long. The passenger cars could carry more than 1,500,000 people, and upon the freight cars could he loaded the weight of all the pyramids of Egypt and aJI the State capitols of the United States.