| Show MARCH 1 I BACK ON THE JOB T LOOKS MORP ComM cArto wow arll tuff M I 1 IT jolt juar KEEP up AND vana like YOU us F 0 TO ac do fl r bov m A V 0 0 1 1 zi ma DEFERRED WORK ADDS TO RAILROADS TASK large capital expenditures required quiren says hines impossible to do all now in order to keep pace with atik tie the growth of business and production in this country an and the demand aerland for or increased transportation facilities on an enormous amount of railroad work must be done in the ceat few years which will require the investment of billions of dollars dollar of new money this Is essential not wily to maintain the railways at their normal high standard of service and but also to make up for ordinary expansion and improvement needs on existing linc which wore were interrupted by the war and to a large extent nt deterred deferred altogether railroad managers realize that even it if the necessary new capital was available it would be practically a physical impossibility for the railroads to accomplish com any large part of tills this delayed and accumulated work during the present year consequently con silently the th Vil most vital needs of the railroads roads will receive first consideration in the plans tor for the immediate future so eo that the public demands in the months of heaviest he aal traffic may be served I 1 as efficiently as possible vast amount of work to be done walker D kilnes director general of railroads under government control emphasized this task facing the railroads after their return to private operation in a letter to senator albert C D cummins chairman of senate interstate commerce committee and representative john J esch chairman of the giouse committee on interstate and io foreign rolan commerce sir hines brines presented this phase ot of the railroad problem to t rim em in urging the necessity for pressing the railroad legislation and to point out that delay would seriously impair the public service by virtually suspending improvements and an the acquisition of equipment in order to kev keep ab ress of the growth of business in this country wrote sir hines it Is indispensable that railroads ra alro a 6 should continue to spend large sums inthe in the acquisition of new equipment enlargement and unification on of terminals ter n als and the ibe construction of and the abe enlargement ot of exl stin shops engine houses turn tables etc and in the carrying forward of normal programs for the revision of grades construction of additional main line tracks longer and more numerous passing tracks etc A vast amount of work now remains remain to be done he added which the intervention of the war ha necessarily delayed and accumulated and the result is if that during the year 1920 very birge la rge capital expenditures ought to be made to make up for the interruptions inevitably due to the war and to prepare the railroads railroad to t serve adequately the increased traffic throughout the country in the year rear or two prior to the beginning r nning of 0 federal control this work was largely arrested by the of securing materials material and labor and also by the difficulty of 0 securing new BOW capital durant tha yew tear r 1918 this work was wa largely restricted to things which could be promptly done mid and which would have a rol relation atlon to winning the war and also restricted by the scarcity of materials the result was wag that programs pro grami for developing the rull mil roul roads wre were largely ill rely interrupted during the calendar year 19 1919 there thera has ha been unavoidably ani an almost corn stoppage of 11 II matters be bause of the prospect ct of early termination of federal control and the resulting indisposition on en tho the part of con gross to jakc 0 |
