Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1909 — Crazy Railway Methods. [ARTICLE]

Crazy Railway Methods.

How the Chinese are wasting British capital in building the Shanghal-llan-kow-Ningpo railway Is told by the Pekin <•<., respondent of the London Times, who says: “The railway presents every possible defect. Bridges are unsafe. Kails are of native manufacture, of obsolete section, spiked into soft wood lepers from Manchuria and Japan. Sleepers are wrongly laid. Wrongly ballasted, their life lii this soil is little more than one year. Eight different patterns of rolling stock are In use. Where there was difficulty In bridging a stream the Chinese built the bridge on dry land and then dug a canal and diverted the waterway under the bridge, both the entrance to the diversion and the exit from it being literally at right angles to the natural direction of the stream.”