OCR Text |
Show Industrial Plant Railroad. Service performed by a private railroad rail-road within an Industrial plant is held by Die Interstate commerce commission to be a plant facility. It further is held that the expense of operating such a line must be borne entirely by the owners of the manufacturing or industrial plant and that no railroad undnr tho giise of the absorption of a switching charge may lawfully sustain Die private road. The (incstlon arose, in the case of tho Crane Iron Works of Pennsylvania against the Central Railroad company of New Jersey. While the opinion Is par-i.enlaily par-i.enlaily applicable to Die case In hand, it Is of general application lo conditions of a similar kind elsewhere iu the country. |