Interstate and Foreign Transportation (Volume 1-11); Hearings Before the Joint Subcommittee Pursuant to Public J. Res. 25, a Joint Resolution Creating

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917. Excerpt: ... 145, Tons of merchandise Per cent of total tons Tons 1 mile (merchandise) Per cent of total tons 1 mile Revenue on merchandise, $2,711 Per cent of total revenue Average haul (miles) Rate per ton per mile (cents) Rate per ton per mile all freight (cents) . Average car earnings: All revenue loads (640,623 cars), per car Carloads (467,887 cars) do----Merchandise (172,736 cars) do Merchandise earned 13.7 cents per 100 pounds. Merchandise averaged to load 5.7 tons per car. Twenty principal stations loaded in one year 118,751 cars of merchandise with average loading of 6.3 tons. Chicago loaded 7,012 cars with average load of 7.93 tons. Detroit loaded 14,080 cars with average load of 7.48 tons. Taking the 118,751 loaded at the 20 principal stations and the 23,456 cars received from connections, we have 142,207 cars accounted for out of a total of 172,736. This leaves only 30,529 loads to have originated at all other stations. There is probably a slight duplication of cars where through loads from connections pass through a junction like Detroit and are partly unloaded, but these are not numerous. What seems to me a rather strange fact is that of all the merchandise we handle I do not recall one regular car that passes over our rod without being worked somewhere. You have many such cars coming on at Mechanicville and off at Binghamton. and probably separate your carloads of through merchandise from the other merchandise traffic. We get a lot of long-haul merchandise from Niagara Frontier to Ludington, Grand Rapids, etc., which is good paying traffic, and our Chicago to Michigan merchandise pays well (176 cars in first nine days of November averaged to pay us $35.71 per car) but our trouble lies largely in the fact that our jobbing towns are so near togethe...