Word: trainloads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tracks east of the Mississippi one of his locomotives dragged a 40-car lot of blackstrap molasses (sugar refinery residue) for 15? a cwt., although the car load rate is 17?. I.C.C. had just granted him and other Mississippi Valley rail roaders the right to quote trainload rates on blackstrap...
...made good economic sense. About three years ago one of I. C.'s big customers, Commercial Solvents Corp., doubled its barge fleet. Scared I. C. chewed its cud, parleyed with Solvents Corp. for two years. In October it went to the I. C. C. with a petition for trainload rates on molasses. Month ago, I. C. C. brought forth its decision, that ". . . certain other forms of transportation which compete with the railroads can law fully, and do, give the shipper of large quantities a decided advantage over the shipper of lesser quantities equivalent to a railroad carload. This...
John Beven expected to carry a trainload of blackstrap from New Orleans to Commercial Solvents' plant at Peoria, Ill, every ten days or so this year, for some $200,000. But the ultimate possibilities of the precedent are much bigger. If I. C. C. authorizes a rate that gets blackstrap out of barges, it may also fix similar rates for iron ore, lumber, coal, sugar, cottonseed oil - and a rate that keeps oil out of pipelines. At I. C. C. hearing Shell Oil Co., Inc. (subsidiary of Shell Union Oil Corp. with millions of dollars invested in pipelines) argued...
...Trainload rates are not the first attempt of railroads to get back their onetime share of freight traffic. For some years roads have been combatting truck competition by resuming an old practice of running "redball" (fast) freights, freeing the tracks for them and sending them as much as 500 miles in a night. During 1939: Union Pacific began to run one from Portland, Ore. to Boise, Idaho, another from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City, another from Denver to Kansas City. Southern Pacific started trains running overnight to Yuma and Phoenix, Ariz, from Los Angeles, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe scheduled...