Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1915 — New Equipment Ordered. [ARTICLE]

New Equipment Ordered.

Faith in the stability of returning prosperity is evidenced by the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad company in the solicitation by it of bids for 2,100 new cars, all to be delivered by midsummer, aggregating in value about .$3,000,000. In the order for new equipment which the company is preparing t 6 place will be 2,000 steel box cars, 50 steel underframe caboose cars and 50 steel passenger coaches.

“As an illustration of what it costs to keep pace with the necessities for transportation facilities it i 3 interesting to review the equipment purchases of the Northwestern company for the last five years,” said an official of that company.

“Since 1910 the Chicago ft Northwestern Railroad company has expended more than $38,000,000 simply to maintain its rolling stock at a high point of efficiency. Exclusive of the cars for which bids are now being solicited, it bought during that period 14,286 freight cars, 659 passenger coaches, 538 locomotives and 379 work cars. The company is optimistic for the business future of the country and has faith in the stability and integrity in the wave of prosperity which is already beginning to be felt throughout the land.”