Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1918 — Car Efficiency. [ARTICLE]

Car Efficiency.

Railroad car efilclency In the United States increased 8 per cent In 1919 over 1913, the previous beat year. This 1W equivalent to an increase of 192,000 cars over the total 2,400,000 now la use on our railroads, according to tha Railway Age Gazette, which also estU mates the mileage for each car a day in the fiscal year, 1916, as 27 mile*. At the same time the average car os parity has risen from 38 to 41 ton*.