Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last-minute orders from London was for 2,000 medical kits. A.S.F. men located a cache of them already loaded on a freight train in Kansas City. A.S.F. ordered: take the stuff off the freight, truck it across the city and put it on a fast passenger train. Sixty hours after the rush request, the 2,000 kits were on the eastern seaboard, ready to be shipped...
...Government shipment, and the Southern Railway Co. speeded it over the most direct route. Nevertheless, the U.S. Comptroller General refused to let the bill be paid. He claimed that the freight charges should have been based on a circuitous routing, which, though many miles longer, would have resulted in a lower freight rate. Last week the Supreme Court upheld the Government's curious claim...
...longer routing would have diverted the freight to a section of the Southern Railway built years ago under a Government land grant. Under land grants made in 1850 and thereafter, the Government subsidized southern and western railroad-building by giving builders a total of 132 million acres of land-7,500 acres of adjacent land for every mile of track they laid. In return the railroads granted the Government, in perpetuity, a 50% reduction in rates for transportation of military supplies and troops...
...that Government rebates are costing them $20 million a month, that they have forfeited more than $600 million since the first land grant act was passed. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, which has netted a total of $23 million from land-grant sales, returned $40 million in lower freight rates to the Government in 1943 alone. Last week railroaders breathed a hopeful sigh as the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee reported out the Boren bill. Based on the premise that the roads have now repaid their subsidy in full, it would put an end to the system...
...equipment estimated its cost at $1,500 a train. Delighted D. & R. G. officials and trainmen agreed that the device would soon pay for itself. Hitherto, train crews could communicate with one another only by stopping the train, sending a crew member trudging the whole stretch of the freight. Such necessary, time-consuming stops are frequent. On last week's test run four important train messages, one reporting a hotbox, were relayed from cab to caboose. Without radio the trainmen figure it would have taken them three hours to get the message back, meantime delaying other trains behind them...