Author finds it uneconomic for railroads to own, maintain and distribute many different types of cars needed to meet modern service requirements; investment in special types of cars minimized; treatment of private cars in repair yards; refrigerator cars produce 2,000,000 loads per yr; how private cars are maintained; moving seasonal crops. Before Chicago Car Foreman's Assn.


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    Title :

    Private freight cars serve both railroads and shippers


    Additional title:

    Ry Age


    Contributors:
    Kramer, L. (author)

    Published in:

    Railway Age ; 99 , n 2


    Publication date :

    1935


    Size :

    3 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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