MINOR TOPICS
THE CAPACITY OF A FREIGHT CAR.
“一个运费car doesn’t appear to be a big thing, but you have no idea what it will hold until you come to crowd it once," remarked a passenger as we passed a “boarding car” for track hands. “I’ll tell you what I saw once out in Nebraska. At a station called Sutton, on the extension of the Burlington road, the whole town for about a month was one freight car. Yes, sir, just one freight car run out on a couple of old rails by the side of the track. It contained the freight office, ticket office, telegraph office, waiting room, express office, post office and a real estate office, a grocery with wet goods attachment, a stock of dry goods, and the agricultural implement man had his stock scattered all around and his office in the car. The railroad agent’s family lived in the car, too, and his wife took in hoarders. Nor that ain’t all. The last day I was there I saw a sign on that car: 'Furnished Room to Rent,’but I afterward learned that meant a bunk in the teuton the roof. I wouldn’t exaggerate about this freight car just to squeeze in a little joke like that.”
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