GENERAL BALANCE SHEET, AT THE CLOSING OF ACCOUNTS, JUNE 30, 1886. Length main line of road from center of Mississippi river to Union Pacific Branches owned by this company, Iowa and Missouri lines..... 606.897 Branches in Iowa and Missouri, giving distance from junction with main Total length of branches owned by this company, Iowa and Missouri..... 606.897 497.162 109.735 903.494 Total length of road belonging to this compauy in Iowa....................................................... 793.759 ing double track............. 278.038 Same in Iowa........ 270.636 Aggregate length of track, computed as single track, exclusive of sidings... 971.563 861.828 Total length of steel rails in tracks in Iowa, exclusive of sidings and double track Total length of iron rails in tracks in Iowa.... 516.144 Weights per yard, steel 56, 60, 66. Weights per yard, iron, average 60 pounds. Gauge of track.. 4 82 LENGTH OF LINES CONTROLLED BY C., B. & Q. R. R. IN ALL STATES. Number of stations on all roads operated by this company in Iowa.......... 399 152 140 124 EMPLOYES. Number of persons regularly employed on all roads operated by this com pany 10,849 Same in Iowa..... 4,893 Amount paid employes, including officials, on all roads operated by this Iron trestle (last year each iron span was counted as a bridge). Number of in Iowa.......... CATTLE-GUARDS. RENEWAL OF BRIDGES AND CULVERTS IN IOWA. Amount of timber used in renewals of wooden bridges during the year (feet B. M.)..................... Amount of trestle work replaced with earth during the year (lineal feet).. Timber culverts replaced with timber............. 9 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 (if covered) 14 New rails laid in track during the year in Iowa-steel [5,566 tons], miles.......... 52.916 52.946 What is the average number of years that iron rails last in your track on main line in Iowa? None. What is the average number of years that iron rails last in your track on branches in 8 What is the average number of years that steel rails last in your track on main line in Iowa?...... 6 What is the average number of years (that steel rails last in your track on branches in Iowa?.... 10 Oak...... Cedar........ What is the average number of years that ties last in you track in Iowa? CROSSINGS IN IOWA. What railroad crosses your road at grade, and at what locality? Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific, at Ottumwa. Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific, one-half mile east of Albia. Council Bluffs & St. Joseph, at Malvern. Council Bluffs & St. Joseph, three-fourths mile north of Shenandoah. Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific, south of Albia. Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific, at Clarks. Humeston & Shenandoah, at Clarinda. Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs, at Pacific Junction. Osceola, Des Moines & Southern, at Osceola. Osceola, Des Moines & Southern, at Leon. Central of Iowa, at Maxon. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, at Fairfield. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, at Ottumwa, east. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, at Des Moines. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, at East Des Moines. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, at Ottumwa. What railroads cross your road, either over or under, and at what locality? Quincy. Number of highway crosssings at grade...... Number of highway crossings at which there are flagmen.. Number of highway crossings over railroad... Number of highway crossings under railroad. Number of higway bridges 18 feet above track.............. FENCING IN IOWA. How many miles of your road in Iowa are fenced What is the auerage cost per rod (estimated)..... What is the total cost of same (estimated)... How many miles of new fencing have you built during the year............. 1,189 11 28 18 28 1,082.911 1.00 346,531.52 42.920 : Number of locomotives Number of passenger cars ....... ROLLING STOCK. Number of baggage, mail and express cars Number of parlor and sleeping cars, assigned sleepers belong ing to Pullman Company. Number of dining cars .... Number of box freight cars Number of stock cars Number of way and caboose cars.... Number of platform and coal cars. Number of other cars Total number of cars... 814 65 24 Maximum weight of locomotives and tenders, consolidation engines, tons... was given), tons Number of locomotives equipped with train brake, in Iowa...... Maximum weight of passenger cars, tons Average weight of passenger cars, tons...... Number of cars equipped with train brake, in Iowa.. Number of passenger cars equipped with Miller platform and buffer, in Iowa 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; 440 summer; 420 winter, Burlington to Ottumwa ; 814 tons; 780 summer; 700 winter, Ottumwa to Chariton; 81 tons; 460 summer; 380 winter, Chariton to Creston; 814 tons; 500 winter; 460 summer, Creston to Pacific Junction. MILEAGE, TRAFFIC, ETC-IN IOWA. TRAIN MILEAGE. Miles run by passenger trains during the year Total train mileage CARS AND WEIGHT OF TRAINS. Average number of cars in passenger trains........... Average weight of passenger trains, exclusive of passengers, tons Average weight of freight trains, exclusive of freight, tons. PASSENGER TRAFFIC. Total number of passengers carried... Highest rate of fare per mile for any distance, cents FREIGHT TRAFFIC. Number of tons of through freight carried, Iowa only....... Total tons of freight carried, Iowa only............ Percentage of freight originating at and carried to stations in Iowa, to total freight carried in Iowa..... |