Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1915 — Railroad Advance. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Advance.

Before the year 1880 most English railroad carriages had only four wheels and weighed ten tons. Prom 1880 to 1890 they had six wheels and weighed fifteen or sixteen tons; from 1890 to 1900 they had eight wheels and weighed twenty-four tons, and since 1900 the fashion is twelve wheels for dining and sleeping cars and the weight thirty-five to forty tons.