Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1916 — Rush for Locomotives. [ARTICLE]

Rush for Locomotives.

The call for locomotives the present year is very large. American roads for tbe first ten months orchis year ordered 940 and the rate of orders is Increasing, indicating that the domestic call will oxcqed l.oqo. The foreign orders for ten months are 1,581. Word has gone out to the railroads that if they will need new equipment they had best reserve Bpace now, as the prospect is the shops will be fully oc- * - cupied later. Orders have been taken from Cubal Spain and Greece, and it ... is expected, that other neutral countries that have thought of Germany vll] send orders to this country.