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Title
Chicago Journal of Commerce displays
Institution
Peter White Public Library

Subject
Railroads

Subject
Railroad equipment

Subject
Duluth South Shore & Atlantic Railway

Item Number
AB01a209

Type
text

Description
The Chicago Journal of Commerce displays its knowledge of the railroad situation on the Upper Peninsula thsuly: the DSS&A has all ready ordered 20 engines of the Brooks Works, Dunkirk, and 25 of other builders, and 1,600 freight cars and 30 passenger coaches and are making contracts for a great variety of additonal material. The contractors have placed orders for over 30,000 tons of steel rails. From Minneapolis the orad is known as the MSSM&A and forms a part of the line from S. S. Marie to Dakota""

Chicago Journal of Commerce displays

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