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gauge. The seats are arranged, double on one side and single 

 on the other, one-half the length of the car having the double 

 .seat on the right, and the other half having them on the left, 

 so as to distribute the weight equally. The single seats are 19 

 in. wide or long; the double, 86 in. ; the aisle 17 in. If found 

 desirable the width of the car can be increased to 8 ft., mak- 

 ing the single seat 22 in., the double, 39 in., and the aisle 23 

 in. These cars, finished in the best style, furnish every comfort 

 of a first-class coach. Sleeping coaches with a single berth 

 on each side, can be constructed so as to be as comfortable as 

 those now in use. • 



The freight cars of the Denver and Eio Grande Railway 

 carry 9 of the largest cattle in a car weighing less than 

 8,000 lbs., while the brcad-gauge cars carry only 14 of the 

 same class in a car weighing from 18,000 lbs. to 20,000 lbs. 

 The stock cars have 4-wheeled trucks, are 24 feet long, the 

 •door being at the side, but near the end instead of the center, 

 .and on the opposite side of the other end. For heavy and 

 valuable cattle, they have two gates in the car (which when not 

 in use are folded back against the side of the car), which makes 

 three rooms 6x8ft., into which they put three head of stock, 

 each, giving a space of 2x8ft. to each head. The broad-gauge 

 puts 14 head of the same cattle into a 28ft. car, which gives 

 the Denver and Eio Grande and other narrow-gauge cars the 

 same floor room that the broad-gauge cars, have and with 

 much less dead weight. 



COMPARATIVE DEAD WEIGHT IN THE TRANSPORTATION OF 

 CATTLE BY THE TWO GAUGES. 



Gauge. 



Broad . . 

 INarrcY. 



Weisht of 

 cars iu lbs. 



18, 000 

 8,000 



No. cat- 

 tle pel- 

 car. 



14 

 9 



Dead weight in favor of narrow gauge 



19,600 

 12, COO 



Weiarht of jGross weight Total 

 cattle iu of loaded \veit;ht 

 lbs. I cars. per head. 



37, 600 

 20,600 



1,285 

 888 



397 



