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Champ Carry, the hefty (6 ft., 220 Ibs.) president of Pullman, Inc. took an agonized look at his freight-car orders one day last fall. The big postwar backlog of freight-car orders had nearly disappeared, and Pullman's three freight-car plants had all but shut down. Yet Carry knew that U.S. railroads needed freight cars; more than half of the 1,762,239 cars in the U.S. are rattling antiques more than 20 years old. There was plenty of business if Carry could find" someone with the money to finance car buying for the cash-short railroads...
Little Glimmer. Office of Defense Transportation Director J. Monroe Johnson reported that the steel industry has volunteered to increase supplies to freight-car builders by more than 50%, beginning early next year. Builders raised their production goals to 14,000 new cars a month by next July, giving Johnson the first "glimmer of hope in the freight-car situation...
Crisis Crimped? Office of Defense Transportation Director J. M. Johnson announced that freight-car production in October reached a postwar peak of 8,394. He hopes that the goal of 10,000 cars a month, scheduled for September, might be reached this month. Reversing a three-year trend, the U.S. in the last two months has built more cars than have been scrapped...
...reason for all this was a familiar one: the chronic freight-car shortage had become critical again. There were not enough cars to haul coal, wood, oil as fast as they could be produced...
Supposedly, the freight-car shortage had been solved last February. At that time, car builders, steelmakers, railmen and the Office of Defense Transportation agreed on a program to turn out more cars (rising to 10,000 a month by September), and thus solve the shortage once & for all. That program, said Iron Age, "is shot to pieces...