Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presidential special trains raise many problems for the railroad handling them. The President's safety comes first, and elaborate precautions are taken. On our own road, for instance, all freight trains in the 31-mile distance we carried the President each trip were required to be at a standstill a half-hour before his train was scheduled to arrive at that point...
...railroads are getting up steam to handle the greatest long-distance transportation job in their history-the overland haul of tens of thousands of U.S. troops, and equipment, on their way from Europe to the Pacific. By last week the big freight push to the West had already begun...
...hour period during V-E week the Army Transportation Corps stopped 6,500 freight cars rolling to East Coast ports with war materials. Within a matter of hours, orders were issued that sent the cars loaded with war materials clattering to Pacific ports...
...Freights. The mountains of westbound scheduled freight for war theaters are a bigger problem than troop movements When the monthly traffic over the western railroads shoots from the present 148,000 cars to 173,000, each of the seven railroads that snake their way through the Rocky Mountains will be loaded to capacity. A hot box, or a derailment on a single track grade up from the Great Plains, will call for fast rerouting of freight flowing through the rail-terminal bottlenecks at Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans...
...able William Franklin Kirk of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Co., on loan to the Office of Defense Transportation. Bill Kirk is no novice at playing the western railroad keyboard for all it is worth. After some two and a half years of watching over a swelling torrent of war freight, Railroader Kirk is reputed to know every siding west of the Mississippi River...