Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ancient chest three feet square, used according to records for 98 years, and no one knows how much longer. Ceremonially its great padlocks were removed, its lid thrown back, its twelve inner compartments, one for each month, revealed. In each compartment were labeled bags of coin, the heaviest freight which the old pyx had ever borne: 92,492 pieces of small change, samples of the 184,843,732 coins† minted at Philadelphia, San Francisco and Denver...
...anything in U. S. railroading could be considered permanent, it would be the dingy red freight caboose with its tiny cupola perched on top like the tin can or Happy Hooligan's head. Last week, however, the caboose also yielded to the progressive redesigning which is revolutionizing U. S. trains...
...caboose is where the freight train crew travels. Its cupola was created for two brakemen, one on each side, not to watch for hoboes, but to see that the long line of swaying cars functions properly. Higher cars have lately obstructed the view, forced brakemen to crane far out. Last week, on its ninetieth anniversary the 11,000-mi. Chicago, Milwaukee. St Paul & Pacific R. R. became the first in the U. S. to begin rebuilding all its 700 cabooses. The Milwaukee is cutting away the cupolas, installing baywindows on each side instead, so trainmen can loll on comfortable cushions...
Most of President Pelley's 400 employes-half in Washington, half out-are busy keeping tabs on the country's 1,800,000 freight cars. One of their chores is to gather vital statistics of car loadings. The most notable industrial achievement of President Pelley's two years has been the so-called "average" plan for settling car hire between railroads and reducing profitless hauling and switching of empty cars. The A.A.R.'s car service division referees this activity, which now saves U. S. roads $12,000,000 a year...
...good the boys or the gods would continue to be to U. S. railroading, stocky, optimistic John Pelley cannot say. Ahead of him is not only the pension snarl and the demand for wage increases, but also a battle for a revision of freight rates to give his carriers more revenue. But John Pelley is no worrier. Said he in the worst of hard times: "Get me right. I'm not going to talk bullish. Nothing like that. I can't see myself sitting on a pink cloud right now. But people are overdoing this pessimism." Today, with...