twenty-two-car

Updated: September 25, 2025

On the long lines, where it had to be as thick as a lead pencil, the expense seemed to be ruinously great. When the first pair of wires was strung between New York and Chicago, for instance, it was found to weigh 870,000 pounds a full load for a twenty-two-car freight train; and the cost of the bare metal was $130,000.

Herbert Newton Casson - The History of the Telephone