Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan was that all rail merchandise services be pooled into two competing agencies of comparable traffic and financial strength, to be owned by two big groups of railroads. Mr. Eastman's plan left the railroads cold. Even less enthusiasm greeted suggestions for pooling of U. S. freight cars. To this the industry objected hotly with cries of: "Impractical! Socialistic...
Railroaders held that greater economy could be obtained by rigid application of existing freight car rules. Mr. Eastman countered with a charge that their attitude was one of "ostrichlike obliviousness to conditions." Last week, following a visit to the White House by Mr. Eastman, President Roosevelt disclosed that, controversy or no controversy, one of the Administration's prime recommendations this winter would probably be the pooling of freight cars for use of all lines...
...some 2,000,000 freight cars, worth $3,000,000,000. Under the existing system of freight car distribution, railroads cooperate with one another under rules of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Most important rule concerns what is known as the per diem rate for foreign cars. (A freight car on its home tracks is a system car; on another company's tracks, a foreign car.) Railroads pay a per diem rate of $1 for every foreign car on their tracks. (The rate was 20? in 1902.) This money is paid as a "penalty" to the railroad owning the foreign...
...Railroad, 22 B. & O. trains between Washington and Chicago began using P. & L. E. trackage between West Pittsburgh and McKeesport as a short cut through the Pittsburgh gateway. Besides reducing running time from 20 to 45 minutes, the change will result in large savings in the operation of heavy freight trains, since the P. & L. E. tracks in the Pittsburgh area do not have the heavy grades met on some sections...
Most amusing to today's public was a design of a Pullman car which Mr. Brady liked to pin on his underwear. Almost two inches long were his freight and passenger car cuff links. A bicycle-shaped stud was reminiscent of the goldplated, diamond-studded bicycle he gave to Lillian Russell, who kept it in a plush case when she was not riding it. From the cover of his eyeglass case came the three-inch design of a locomotive. Other items: a camel tie clasp, a collar button representing an early airplane. In a forthcoming biography of "Diamond...