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The Iron Horse

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 12, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 40, No. 22.

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The Iron Horse.

The Chicago Tribune closes an article on “The Iron Horse” with the following figures: “There are now on the roads leading to this city 1,899 engines, valued on an average of $12,000 apiece. This would make their total value $22,788,000. These engines are distributed as follows: Chicago and Northwestern, 270; Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago, 223; Chicago and St. Louis, 144; Illinois Central, 197; Chicago, Danville and Vincennes, 21; Michigan Central, 205; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, 201; Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, 346; Rock Island and Pacific, 182. The number of regular daily trains the “Iron Horse” pulls out of the city is 178, and the number in, 169, making a total of 347 regular trains. If we add to these the average number of irregular trains we have a grand total of 570 daily trains. The following will show at a glance something of the work the “Iron Horse in Chicago” performs in a year: He takes out, and brings in, 135,050 trains a year. He earns about $83,000,000. He brings in a profit of $29,175,119. He transports over the various roads he travels upward of 6,000,000 passengers. He represents $400,000,000 of capital.