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Rate Reduction. The I.C.C. based its order cutting the base rate from 3.6? per mile and eliminating Pullman surcharges, on the theory that railway passenger travel, decimated by the automobile, would be partially restored by the lower fare, and that the extra volume of traffic would more than compensate for the lower rate. The I.C.C. declared that since 1926, railroads in general have made no money on passengers, that they lost $200,000,000 a year on passenger traffic in 1931, 1932 and 1933. I.C.C. figures showed that in 1922 the railroads carried 537,000,000 passengers, in 1934 they...
...passengers. It operates in densely populated U. S. areas, with its New York-to-Washington mileage probably representing the heaviest non-commuting traffic in the country. New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago and St. Louis are among its ports of call. It has a heavy Pullman traffic from New York to Chicago and is a great connecting road for traffic bound from New York to the South. Furthermore, its Long Island rail-road alone carried more than 79,000,000 passengers...
...order to enable the railroads to continue in the passenger business," the Interstate Commerce Commission last week announced its most drastic decision since 1920. It ordered all U. S. railroads to reduce present basic fares of 3.6? a mile in coaches and 3.6? a mile plus 50% surcharge in Pullmans to a maximum rate of 2? a mile in coaches and 3? a mile in Pullmans. Pullman surcharges are to be abolished. Effective date: June...
...liners, which was a change in name without much effect on rates (TIME, Feb. 17), the new railroad fares will make a tremendous difference in the cost of travel. A salesman scooting about the nation in trains now pays $32.70 for a day-coach ticket or $41.70 in a Pullman from New York to Chicago. According to the new rates, he will pay only $18.17 in a coach or $27.24 in a Pullman. To ride from Chicago to St. Louis in a sleeper will cost not $11.17 but $8.83. A day coach next afternoon to Indianapolis will cost $5.04 instead...
...Pullman surcharge is so distasteful to the public it causes more harm than good to the lines...