Train And Track

The average railway employee will get $60 more in wages this year than he received in 1902.

The recent increase in freight rates If maintained throughout the year will increase net railway earnings more than $150,000,000.

The ratio of operating expenses to earnings in 1902 for all the railroads in this country was 64.62 per cent. The previous year it was 64.86 per cent.

The Philadelphia Rapid Transit company is to build at Frankford avenue and Bridge street, that city, a car barn that it says will be the biggest in the world. It will have forty-three tracks within it.

A through train service from Paris to Peking was arranged recently by the directors of the Nord, Quest and Orleans Railway companies of France and representatives of Belgian, Dutch, German and Austrian railways.