Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About 900 freight cars would be required to transport this tonnage by rail. It compares with 13,000 tons dropped by the R.A.F. in the 52 weeks of 1940, with 7,500 tons dropped by the Germans in the entire London blitz...
...Imbo. No man-made scene of battle and destruction had shaken them so verbally. They wrote: ". . . incredibly awesome. . . . The great lambent tongue on the mountainside . . . some giant blast furnace suddenly gone berserk. ... A moving, burning coalyard ... a torrid, gluey mass ... a gigantic, grey-and-orange glowworm. ... All the freight cars in the world had hauled cinders from all the steel mills ever built and dumped them. . . ." But a G.I. corporal from Indiana topped them all. Said he, as he watched Vesuvius in action: "Gosh, when I tell 'em about this in Muncie...
Most worried were the operating officials of the Western railroads. The long miles of single track that snake through the Rockies must move heavier & heavier loads of troops and munitions to West Coast ports. Southern Pacific has ordered 300 locomotives and 10,000 freight cars since 1939, but now S.P. must have 10,000 more employes to keep traffic rolling...
Irony. This is the year when the railroads had hoped that their problems would ease. They had hoped to get through the war without a serious car shortage. For 1944 WPB has promised steel enough to build 60,000 freight cars and 1,200 locomotives. Pullman has delivered the last of 1,200 troop sleepers...
These improvements have speeded up trains and made heavier loads possible. With the new rolling stock to be built this year, the railroads could handle the estimated 761 billion freight-ton miles, and 102 billion passenger miles if they...