Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1914 — Scrap Material Gathered Up. [ARTICLE]

Scrap Material Gathered Up.

According to the Railway Gazette, an American railroad recently sent a train over its system to collect scrap material and odds and ends of every kind, the train carrying a divisional superintendent and his staff. Scrap and obsolete material were collected to the amount of 147 carloads, valued at $42,000, and after deducting the cost of labor, train expenses, etc., there was a net gain of $39,000. As showing the conditions, 12 bottles of ink were found at a small station where one bottle would suffice for a year, and at another point 50 noninsulated bridle rods were found at a station on territory which was trackcircuited throughout. Useless at such points these materials were serviceable elsewhere.