Note 272 — Chapter XXVI · PRIVATE-CAR ABUSES.
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Sen. Com. 1905, p. 776: 49,807 total, 15,269 railroad and 34,538 private refrigerators; 14,792 tank cars; 11,357 stock cars; 325 poultry cars; vehicle cars and furniture cars, 1,621. These with coal and coke cars and other private cars make a total of 127,331 private cars. The entire freight car equipment belonging to the railroads is about 1,700,000 cars.