car mileage

Example Sentences

• "The figures which I submitted at Detroit two years ago, and which were based upon the ton mileage, indicated that the total car mileage for the year 1890, was about 11,878,947,768 miles. Had the whole number of roads reported to the commission for the year 1892, it is fair to assume that the total car mileage would approximate twelve billion miles, which, of course, includes the item given above showing the mileage of private cars."
• "That the passenger car mileage for the entire system for the year ending June 30th, 1906, was 44,779,961 miles, of which 6,812593 miles or 15.214 per cent., was in the state of Washington."
• "The total revenue car mileage in bituminous coal service for the period was ascertained for each division in a similar manner, and that in coke service also, except that the empty car mileage in this service was taken as equal to the loaded car mileage as already indicated."
• "It will be immediately apparent from this table that the extent to which the average weights of coaches and Pullman cars on each road is considered in the total, without, for the moment, questioning the accuracy of such weight for the various individual roads, bears no relation whatever either to the ratio which the car mileage of each particular road bears to the whole of the 19 roads, or even to the ratio which the car mileage tested on each particular road bears to the total mileage tested on the 19 roads."
• "I need not say to any auditor, or any person who has ever had anything to do with the keeping and returns of car mileage, that if car mileage is properly kept and honestly returned, it would not involve ten per cent (our auditor says five) additional clerical force or time to return each car, over the present “aggregate returns” system. And this leads me to speak of the fact, that but few—even among railroad men—know how small mileage the average of freight cars (and of course freight car-wheels) is in a year."
• "Mr. Breed, purchasing agent and president's secretary of the Louisville and Nashville R. R., was called to the chair, and on taking it he said that two years ago last spring the question of individual car mileage was brought up at the Purchasing Agents' Convention. He stated that the keeping of the mileage of the passenger cars and engines was a very simple matter, from the fact that they are always on their own road. As far as freight cars were concerned, it was more difficult to obtain their mileage, from the fact that they were for a great portion of the time of foreign roads."