. American engineer and railroad journal . capacity of the line and sidings answers to runningfour trains daily in each direction—one mixed and threefreight trains. If additional sidings be put between thestations, reducing the distance between them to iS miles,then the line will permit the running of seven trains dailyin each direction. The supply of rolling stock is supposed to be sufficientfor one and one freight train daily in each direc-tion. According to this the division from Chelabinsk tothe Obi will require 120 locomotives, and the divisionfrom Obi to Achinsk, on the Central Si
. American engineer and railroad journal . capacity of the line and sidings answers to runningfour trains daily in each direction—one mixed and threefreight trains. If additional sidings be put between thestations, reducing the distance between them to iS miles,then the line will permit the running of seven trains dailyin each direction. The supply of rolling stock is supposed to be sufficientfor one and one freight train daily in each direc-tion. According to this the division from Chelabinsk tothe Obi will require 120 locomotives, and the divisionfrom Obi to Achinsk, on the Central Siberian Railroad, 67locomotives. The stations will be fully equipped with signals andswitches, and,for this purpose there will be used 343switches, 75 switch-houses, and 64 semaphores. Therewill be 10 turn-tables of the Sellers pattern, 55 ft. in diam-eter, and 2 weigh-platforms. The station yards will bepartly paved and provided with fences. The approximate estimated cost of the Western SiberianRailroad is given in the following table :. WESTERN SIBERIA. SHOWING LOCATED LINE OF SIBERIAN RAILROAD. Lengthin miles. 498387 885 202 17053 Cost ill Roubles. Total. per mile. I. From Cheliibinik to Omsk with Irtish Bridge and branch II. Krom Omsk lo the Obi 26,3co,ooo16,000,000 52,82041,340 Total III. Fintn the Obi River to Pochilan-ka on Central Siberian Rail- 42,300,000 16,400,000 8,750,0002,370,000 47,Soo 81,180 51,47044,700 IV. From Pochitank;i to Achinsk (a part of Central Siberian line).. V. Branch to Tomsk Total 425 27,520,000 64,(joo 1,310 69,820,000 It is supposed that the final location will reduce the costof Sections III, IV and V about 10 per cent., and that thecost per mile will be 51,760 roubles, including the railsand rolling stock, which amount to 18,215 roubles permile. The total estimated expenditure is thus nearly!J42,000,000, or about if;3i,98o per mile. When we remember that this statement covers lessthan one-third of the work, the magnitude of the
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