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Show SUGGESTS REMEDY FOR HANDLING OF FREIGHT Withdrawal of one transcontinental : passenger train by each of the transcontinental trans-continental roads' would do much to solve j the motive power problem for the 1 handling of freight, according to H. C. Nutt. manager of the Salt Lake & Los Angeles railroad. Mr. Nutt. in a recent hearing in California Cali-fornia relative, to Improvement of railroad rail-road operating conditions, suggested that the withdrawal of one passenger train from his own line would release not less than eighteen engines which might then he used for other service. He pointed out wiiat tnleht be accomplished in this way if each road in the country withdrew one through passenger train from its schedule and used the engines for freight work. F. E. Batturs of the Southern Pacific opposed the scheme on the ground that it would stow up and disrupt business on the Pacific coast and would tend to I decrease efficiency in every branch of industry. |