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  • The mileage checks pretty good.
  • What's the mileage on it?
  • The mileage was scrupulously recorded, as was everything else.
  • There was a log listing mileage and dates in a variety of dif­ferent handwritings.
  • "It handles well and gets good gas mileage," she answered, hoping Alex would be out soon.
  • Using his own parameters about mileage and age of the vehicle, he found several cars that fit her criteria.
  • In the United States progress was more rapid, for, beginning at 2816 in 1840, the mileage reached 9015 in 1850, 30,600 in 1860, 87,801 in 1880, and 198,964 in 1900.
  • Yet the mileage open per Io,000 inhabitants in Australia, as a whole, far surpasses that in any other of the broad geographical divisions.
  • In comparing the figures, it should be noted that main line mileage in the Eastern states, as for example that of the Pennsylvania railroad and the New York, New Haven & Hartford, does not differ greatly in standards of safety or in unit cost from the best British construction, although improvement work in America is charged to income far more liberally than it has been in England.
  • Under this system each consignment of freight is compelled to pay its share of the terminal expense, independently of distance, plus a mileage charge proportionate to the length of the journey or haul.
  • In any comparison between British and American records the first point to be borne in mind is the difference in mileage and traffic. The American railways aggregate approximately ten times the length of the British lines; but in train miles the difference is far less.
  • Of the total train mileage in America more than half is freight; in Great Britain much more than half is passenger.
  • If you've achieved a hiking or biking mileage or speed record or simply want to celebrate, Annapolis offers upscale, sophisticated dining choices guaranteed to satisfy diners.
  • According to the census returns of 1895, the total mileage was 496 m., representing a capital expenditure of $84,044,581 paper.
  • Of general merchandise it might prove a serious competitor to the canals, of which a large mileage had been constructed in Great Britain during that period.
  • Of railway were sanctioned by parliament, including the beginnings of most of the existing trunk-lines, and in 1840 the actual mileage reached 1331 m.
  • In 1850 the mileage was 6635, in 1860 it was 10,410, and in 1870 it was 15,310.
  • R.) General Statistics Mileage.-At the close of 1907 there were approximately 601,808 miles of railway in the world, excluding tramways.
  • Table I.-Mileage Of The World Miles.
  • 309,974 Australia 17,766 Asia 56,181 Table II., classifying the mileage of Europe, shows that Russia has taken the lead, instead of Germany, as in former years.
  • If the Asiatic portions of the Russian Empire were given in the same table, the total Russian mileage would appear nearly as large as that of Germany and Italy together.
  • 56,181 Although more than half of the total mileage of Asia is in British India, it is probable that the greatest proportionate gains in the near future will be in China, Siberia and Manchuria, and Central Russia in Asia.
  • That the railway mileage in the British possessions amounts to almost five-sixths of the total.
  • In Australia the increase in railway mileage in the five years ending December 31st, 1907 was about 7%-a small proportion as compared with America, Asia or Africa.
  • Yet the mileage of sidings in the United Kingdom amounted to 14,353 in 1908, and the cost of constructing them was probably not far from £60,000,000.
  • United Kingdom, 1908.39,316 £ 33,333 United States, 1908.254,192 10,372 2 1 he figures for the United States are from the report of the Interstate Commerce Commission for the year ended 30th of June 1908, and comprise mileage of first, second, third and fourth tracks, and paid-up capital in the hands of the public only.
  • The first efforts at railway legislation were governed by the equal mileage principle; that is, the attempt was made to make rates proportionate to the distance.
  • So much of the expense of the handling, both of freight and of passengers, was independent of the length of the journey that a mileage rate sufficiently large for short distances was unnecessarily burdensome for long ones, and was bound to destroy long-distance traffic, if the theory were consistently applied.
  • Of railway, and the tendency of all the great American railway systems, even when not tied to one another in common ownership, is to increase their mileage year by year by acquiring tributary lines.
  • In France and other European countries there is also an important mileage of metre gauge, and even narrower, on lines of local or secondary importance.
  • 6 in., but there is a large mileage of other gauges, especially metre.
  • Some railway companies, however, having a long mileage in timberless regions, do " treat " their sleepers.
  • Had been opened for traffic, and the mileage of lines opened was much less in proportion to the mileage sanctioned in the cases of lines constructed on their own land than in the case of lines more of the nature of tramways.
  • In operation, and the total mileage authorized was 2603, while the construction of a considerable further mileage was under consideration.
  • There are no navigable waterways, and the railway mileage is small.
  • Since 1900, however, there has been considerable development, and the total mileage on the 1st of January 1909, was 1,866.92 m.
  • In 1880 he was in virtual control of Io,000 miles of railway, about one-ninth of the railway mileage of the United States at that time.
  • About three-fourths of the city's total street mileage (120 m.) is paved, Belgian block or macadam being used on the principal thoroughfares.
  • By the close of 1850 the railway mileage had increased to 575 m., and for the next forty years, with the exception of the Civil War period, more than 2000 m.
  • The latest entry dated Monday showed a mileage figure and the starting point of Parkside, Pennsylvania.
  • In 1857, the railway mileage of the republic increased to 1563 m.
  • 199,371 In the United States railway mileage now tends to increase at the rate of slightly over 5000 miles a year, which is about 2 ° o on the present main line mileage.
  • Were built-an addition equivalent to more than I I% of mileage then existing-and in 1887, 12,876 m.
  • Illustrates the railway mileage in the continent of America at the close of 1907.
  • Shows as closely as possible the railway route mileage open in Asia at the close of 1907.
  • In railway mileage per io,000 inhabitants, however, Queensland, in the Australian group, reports a figure much greater than any other country; while at the other end of the list Persia holds the record for isolation.
  • The United States of America, with a capital of £3,059,800,000 invested in its railways on the 30th of June 1906, was easily ahead of every other country, and in 1908 the figure was increased to £ 3,443, 02 7, 68 5, of which £2,636,569,089 was in the hands of the public. On a route-mileage basis, however, the capital cost of the British railway system is far greater than that of any other country in the world, partly because a vast proportion of the lines are double, treble or even quadruple, partly because the safety requirements of the Board of Trade and the high standards of the original builders made actual construction very costly.
  • Instead of the borrowing power being restricted to a small percentage of the total capital, as in European countries, most of the railway mileage of America has been built with borrowed money, represented by bonds, while stock has been given freely as an inducement to subscribe to the bonds on the XXII.
  • To 3128 m., or 1642 m., which was more than one-third of all that had been built up to the year 1909, when the total mileage was 4464.14.
  • The authorities secured the van's mileage from the previous owner and carefully attempted to construct miles driven to pin-point Grasso's hideout.
  • Fred was still gabbing on the phone so Dean shared with his wife the last of the turkey salad, extended mileage from the Christmas turkey of ten days earlier.
  • The urban and rural district roads, covering a much greater mileage and classed as la petite voirie, are maintained chiefly by the communes under the supervision of the Minister of the Interior.
  • Or about 21% of the total mileage open.
  • (In other countries where the mileage of main lines of railways in proportion to area and population is roughly the same as in the United Kingdom, the mileage of light railways already constructed is considerable, while many additional lines are under construction.
  • The Civil War then interfered, and in 1880 the mileage was only 1127 m.
  • Dean looked at the odometer and then at the mileage log.
  • He could account for the correct mileage on the car if he used a tow bar that kept the wheels on the road.
  • Dean had no way of checking Byrne's mileage and if by chance he had detoured east on Interstate 84, probably 30 miles further, instead of taking the more direct south-easterly route between Scranton and Parkside.
  • There was also a small sheet of white paper listing 11.2 gallons of gas purchased in Aberdeen, Maryland, a mileage figure and the amount of the purchase.
  • It's a nice one, low mileage and looks to be in excellent condition.
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