DESCRIPTION OF ROAD. Length of main line of road from Albia, Iowa, to Manly Junction, Iowa.... 177.841 11,640 20.200 Length of main line of road to Mississippi river from Oskaloosa, Iowa, to Iowa Junction, Illinois, bridge and bridge company's track leased, 2.571 miles...... 186.400 Total length of branches owned by this company in Iowa.................... 124.713. Total length of road belonging to this company... 498.023 Total length of road bolonging to this company in Iowa........ 409.364 63.234 53.200 Aggregate length of track, computed as single track, exclusive of sidings.. 498.023 409.364 Total length of steel rails in tracks in Iowa, exclusive of sidings, owned.......... 21.327 248.279 161.085 ROAD AND BRANCHES BELONGING TO OTHER COMPANIES OPERATED BY THIS COMPANY Name, description and length of each: Peoria & Pekin Union R'y, Iowa Junction, Illinois to Peoria, Ill., miles. 3.500 2.571 Minnesota & Northwestern R. R., Manly Junction, Iowa to Lyle, Minn. 20.200 If any part of the road was first opened for operation during the past year, state the date, December 6, 1885, M. & N. W. R. R., company's track, Manley Junction to Lyle, Minnesota. Total miles of road operated by this company. 512.654 Average miles of road operated by this company for year............. 503.980 419.051 410.377 Number of persons regularly employed on all roads operated by this com Amount paid employes, including officials, on all roads operated by this pany, average Same in Iowa.... company.. Same in Iowa.. 1,075 925 578,421.23 508,421.23 Amount of timber used in renewals of wooden bridges during the year, feet Timber culverts replaced with timber.. 127,048 1. Give the average number of years the trestle and pile bridges last on your road in Iowa......... Give the average number of years that wooden truss bridges last on your road in Iowa.... Number of track sections in Iowa Average length of sections, miles... Average number of men in each section gang.... ROAD-BED AND TRACK. Number of new ties laid in track during the year in Iowa......... 10 8 to 9 60 7 4 87,707 217 Average number of new tries per mile of road, laid during year............................... New rails lald in track during the year in Iowa-steel [1,032 1850.2240 tons], miles.... Total track laid with new rails during the year in Iowa, miles.... 11 11 What is the average number of years that iron rails last in your track on main line in Iowa....... 10 What is the average number of years that iron rails last in your track on branches in Iowa? New. What is the average number of years that steel rails last in your track on main line in Iowa? New. What is the average number of years that steel rails last in your track on What is the average number of years that ties last in your track in Iowa? CROSSINGS IN IOWA. What railroads crosses your road at grade, and at what locality? Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern at Manly Junction, Abbot and Morning Sun. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul at Mason City Junction, State Center Junction and Hedrick. Illinois Central at Ackley. Chicago, Iowa & Dakota at Eldora. Chicago & Northwestern at Gifford, Marshalltown and one mile west of Wight. Wisconsin, Iowa & Nebraska at Marshalltown and one mile west of State Center. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy at Maxon. Burlington & Northwestern (narrow guage), one mile east of Oskaloosa, one mile west of Hedrick, one and a quarter miles west of Martinsburg and Brighton. Burlington & Western (narrow guage) at Winfield. What railroads cross your road, either over or under, and at what locality? C., R. I. & P. (Washington Branch) at Oskaloosa, What is the total cost of same since 1882 (127 miles road)............. € 277 30 36,170.67 30 123 Maximum weight of passenger cars, tons................................ Kind of brake, Westinghouse Air Brake, 15; American Steam Brake, 5. Average weight of passenger cars, tons.. Number of cars equipped with train brake.. Kind of brake, Westinghouse. Number of passenger cars equipped with Miller platform and buffer........ 32 The amount of tonnage that can be carried over your road exclusive of cars, by an engine of given weight. Weight of engine, 65 tons; 525 maximum; 270 minimum. Average weight of passenger trains (exclusive of passenger engines, tous... 75 14.40 Average weight of trains (exclusive of freight engines) tons... 130 |