Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1900 — Vast Coat of a Mistake. [ARTICLE]

Vast Coat of a Mistake.

In the haste of building the Siberian and Trans-Baikal railways twelvepound Instead of twenty-four-pound rails were used, wooden bridges were built and crossings made far apart. The result is that not more than twenty miles an hour can be safely made. To make matters worse they have adopted the heaviest kind of engines which on the numerous steep grades cannot be run less than thirty-five miles an hour. It will cost $7,725,000 to reconstruct the Trans-Baikal and $25,750,000 for the reconstruction of the Siberian system.