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Show AUTO SHIPMENTS HELP RAILROADS Records Show 3,040,000 Car-loads Car-loads Were Transported in Year 1925. That the automotive Industry was one of the large customers of the railroads rail-roads during 1925 is disclosed by freight records ,1ust made public. This disclosure follows announcement that the railroads enjoyed record earnings last year. Freight carload3 of automotive products hauled by the railroads In 1925 totaled 3,040,000, according to J. S. Marvin, chairman of the traffic managers conference of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. This total included shipments of motor cars and parts, gasoline used in automobiles, auto-mobiles, road-building material and kindred freight. Many other items, such as building materials and equipment equip-ment for factories and garages, less than carload shipments of parts and accessories and express matter, are not included, because there is no separate sep-arate classification for these. Report of Statisticians. Statisticians find that it would take all the passenger and freight locomotives locomo-tives and all of the various kinds of freight cars of the railroads nearly ten days to handle this business at one time; all of which is another way of stating the fact that of 51,177,902 carloads of freight of all kinds handled han-dled by the railroads In 1925, more than three million carloads were Induced In-duced by the manufacture and use of motor cars. The Importance of this business to railroads is emphasized by comparison with the shipping of other principal commodities in 1925. Coal leads with 8,860,392 carloads, followed by forest products, 3,741,008; grain and grain products, 2,300,199 ; ore, 2,018,S54 ; live stock, 1,635,252. Shipments of automobiles automo-biles and parts alone during the year approximated 820,000 carloads, compared com-pared with 740,578 in 1924. Record Railroad Earnings. "The record railroad earnings coupled with the record carload shipments ship-ments of motor products are significant signifi-cant of the co-ordinate Interest of all lines of transportation," says the automobile chamber's statement. "Motor transport is one of the major ma-jor customers of railroads and, more important still, it aids the rail lines in developing national resources and wealth. Just as the railroad is more economical in long-haul transportation, transporta-tion, so in many forms of short-haul travel the motor vehicle is the most efficient." |