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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 695

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r cent). Cars are now being builtentirely of steel, and while their first cost is greater, the cost per ton and theexpenses of maintenance are less than for wooden cars of similar capacity.As sleeping, dining, parlor, tourist, and other special cars have been intro-duced for passenger traffic, so… … EXTERIOR OF LATEST SLEEPING CAR. limited. The ordinary foreign freight cars are the same as those of 30 or 40years ago, being short four-wheel cars, weighing 5 tons, and carrying 8 to 10tons. These are not well adapted to the handling of bulk freight, and greatlyincreased economy and facility in…

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