Surplus at commencement of the year. Due on vouchers and accounts. Proceeds of consolidated bonds Amount absorbed in construction and old indebtedness....... Amount absorbed in leased rolling stock. Amount in material and balances from other roads and cash DEBIT. Cost of all construction, equipment and franchises Paid on old indebtedness (old company). Discount on consolidated bonds. Leased rolling stock..... Miscellaneous book accounts. Material on hand............ SURPLUS. Due from stations. Bills receivable Real estate (farm)............ Stock in other companies.. Cash on hand.... Profit and loss balance.. Total.. GENERAL BALANCE SHEET AT THE CLOSING OF ACCOUNTS, JUNE 30, 1886. Capital stock Funded debt Car trust certificates. Vouchers and accounts Total..... CREDIT. $ 1,438.73 32,016.08 49,447.34 237,152.83 1,092,929.44 86,606.99 1,110,815.76 798,964.99 120,848.85 191,001.92 1.110,815.76 DESCRIPTION OF ROAD. Length of main line of road from Albia, Iowa, to Manly Junction, Iowa.... Length of main line of road to Mississippi river from Oskaloosa, Iowa, to Length of main line of road in Iowa.. Length of main line of road in Minnesota. Belmond branch..... Story City branch State Centre branch. Muchakinock branch... Total length of branches owned by this company..... Total length of branches owned by this company in Iowa.................... Total length of road belonging to this company... Total length of road bolonging to this company in Iowa........ Aggregate length of sidings and other tracks not above enumerated. Aggregate length of track, computed as single track, exclusive of sidings.. Total length of steel rails in tracks in Iowa, exclusive of sidings, owned.......... Weights per yard, steel, 52 to 60 pounds. Weights per yard, iron, 52 to 56 pounds. Gauge of track.. 177.841 11,640 20.200 186.400 305.978 .315 89.758 22.203 34.510 26.640 13.612 27.748 124.713 124.713. 498.023 409.364 63.234 53.200 498.023 409.364 161.085 21.327 248.279 4.8% Illinois. Leased un der contract. 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. Minnesota & Northwestern R. R., Manly Junction, Iowa to Lyle, Minn. Total length of the above roads........... Total length of above roads in Iowa ............................. Total length of above roads in other States (specifying each :) Minnesota.... Illinois.... 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. STATIONS. Number of stations on all roads owned by this company.... Number of stations on all roads operated by this company. Number of telegraph offices in stations in Iowa. Number of in Iowa....... EMPLOYES. Number of persons regularly employed on all roads operated by this company, average Same in Iowa.... Amount paid employes, including officials, on all roads operated by this BRIDGES IN IOWA. CATTLE-GUARDS. BOX CULVERTS IN IOWA. .345 4.599 503.980 Amount of timber used in renewals of wooden bridges during the year, feet Timber culverts replaced with timber.. 410.377 No. RENEWAL OF BRIDGES AND CULVERTS IN IOWA. 12 2 4 504 2. 962 1. BRIDGES BUILT WITHIN THE YEAR IN IOWA. Total.. 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.... ROAD-BED AND TRACK. Number of track sections in Iowa Average length of sections, miles... Average number of men in each section gang.... Average number of new tries per mile of road, laid during year............................... miles.... Total track laid with new rails during the year in Iowa, miles.... What is the average number of years that iron rails last in your track on main line in Iowa....... 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 branches in Iowa? New. What is the average number of years that ties last in your track in Iowa? 10 8 to 9 60 7 4 87,707 217 11 11 10 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. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific at Grinnell and Given. 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., M. & St. l'. (Council Bluffs Division) at Pickering. Number of highway crossings at grade........ Number of highway crossings at which there are flagmen... Number of highway bridges less than 18 feet above track........ FENCING IN IOWA. How many miles of your road in Iowa are fenced, miles..... How many miles of new fencing have you built during the year (road) miles Number of locomotives. Number of passenger cars..... Number of baggage, mail and express cars Number of box freight cars.... Number of stock cars..... Number of platform and coal cars. Total number of cars. ROLLING STOCK. Maximum weight of locomotives and tenders, tons... LEASED. 25 6 5 250 Miles run by passenger trains during the year.. Total train mileage.... 360 .None. 561 Kind of brake, Westinghouse Air Brake, 15; American Steam Brake, 5. Maximum weight of passenger cars, tons................................ Number of cars equipped with train brake.. OWNED. 32 13 10 386 60 587 21 1,077 CARS AND WEIGHT OF TRAINS. Average number of cars in passenger trains................. Average number of cars in freight trains.... Average weight of trains (exclusive of freight engines) tons... Kind of brake, Westinghouse. 32 Number of passenger cars equipped with Miller platform and buffer........ 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. [MILEAGE, TRAFFIC, ETC. TRAIN MILEAGE. 355,672 928,756 288,880 41,678 1,614,986 3.76 75 14.40 130 |