Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This railroad runs some mighty long freight trains and you can find a mighty large army of people to say that that is 100% correct...
...miles of line in four States, connecting New Orleans, Shreveport, Baton Rouge and Monroe, La., Memphis, Tenn., Jackson, Meridian, Vicksburg, Greenville, Natchez, Greenwood and Clarksdale, Miss., and Helena, Ark. Property investment is roundly $100,000,000. In 1936 the road performed 1,085,000.000 ton miles of freight service and 60,000,000 miles of passenger service, gave employment to approximately 4,000 persons, contributed $1,625,000 in taxes in the territory served...
Bills limiting freight trains to 70 cars or a half-mile, sometimes also restricting passenger trains to 14 or 16 cars, have been introduced in 29 other States, always strongly backed by organized railway labor. The Legislatures of Louisiana, Nevada, Oklahoma, California passed them. In California, however, the measure was killed by a Governor's veto; in the other States the laws were found unconstitutional by Federal courts...
Average length of all U. S. freight trains is 47 cars. But trains longer than 70 cars are the rule in large homogeneous shipments: produce from California and Florida, coal from the Allegheny fields to the coast. The Norfolk & Western, the Virginian, the Chesapeake & Ohio find it possible to operate 120-car coal trains with a single powerful locomotive. These super-engines would represent a capital loss if deprived of their prime function of pulling long trains. The roads affected by the 70-car proposal figure that it would cost them $90,000,000 per year. The Brotherhoods claim that...
...Association of America declares that since 1922 the U. S. roads have spent $8,000,000,000 modernizing their equipment and rights of way. much of it expressly for handling long trains with safety. Train lengths have increased in recent years but employe casualties have decreased. In 1923, when freight trains averaged 40 cars in length, crew casualties numbered 36,238, but in 1935 with train length up to 46 cars casualties were down to 5,996. The Duluth, Missabe & Northern R.R. in Minnesota operated almost 7,000 trains of more than 70 cars over a period in which...