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...Gibson, Ind., in a huge freight yard of the Indiana Harbor Belt R. R., Bell Telephone Co. engineers installed and announced perfect a radio telephone transmitter in the yard-master's signal tower and receiving sets with loud speakers in switch-engine cabs, the antennae being placed on the rear of the tenders. So perfect was the communication that engineers received their orders farther from the tower than their answering whistles could be heard...
...tunnel of Ricken, in Switzerland, last week, a freight train stopped, filled the air with dense, deadly carbon monoxide gas; nine railroad workers, trapped, suffocated...
...cancerous growth" on the U. S. transportation system. He advocated that 30,000 miles of lines (about one-ninth of the total U. S. mileage) be scrapped. In the southwest, in the region he would operate his system, 4,000 miles should be ripped up.* Where transportation, passenger or freight, was needed for isolated communities, motor trucks and buses could handle the traffic more economically and more profitably than could a skimped railroad, under present conditions...
Railroads have begun to make use of the motor industry, whose inroads on freight and passenger traffic railroad officials have regarded with more or less apathy. President Patrick E. Crowley of the New York Central told the Toledo (Ohio) Chamber of Commerce how great those inroads have been. Railroads operate over more than a quarter-million miles of track which they have had to lay down and maintain. Motors run over three million miles of roads supported by taxation. Some of the $360,000,000 of taxes ($1,000,000 a day) which U.S. railroads pay yearly go to maintain...
...indicator of U. S. commerce flow, reached 1,187,011 for the week of Sept. 18, the American Railway Association reported last week after the normal 21 days necessary to consolidate the country's statistics. That week was not only the record week of all time for such freight traffic; it was also the tenth successive week, and the seventeenth so far this year, when more than a million freight cars were loaded. Only once since the year's start (the week of Jan. 2) did car loadings fall below...