Show RAILROADS IJ BREAK RECORDS r f LARGEST GROSS TONNAGE AND GREATEST HAULAGE PER CAR CARIN f IN HISTORY IS ATTAINED Chairman of Executive Association I Makes Report of Achievements of of the Nation for Year Which Is Most Satisfactory c New York York Thomas Thomas De DeItt Cu Ciller Cuyler ler I chairman of the Association of Railway Rail full way Executives authorizes the following follow tollow- ing log statement reviewing the railroad z Io situation for the current year jear ear This Is the record ecord year of American railroad operation Not only has a larger gross tonnage been moved than ever eyer before but new records have been established In the amount of transportation t tation gotten out of each car Even en during Ing the war year ear of or 1918 the highest high est performance was ton p per r car per day while for Au August 1920 t the average was and for September Septem Wi ber and October In the nine full tull months since thit tin the t government turned back the railroad r to their owners on March 1 I the railroad rail L road companies under private operation operation opera opera- tion ha e increased the Ule average a movement ment peri per i freight car per day 03 63 rom from 23 to 28 G miles Increased the a average a load lond per car cat 17 tons tons from to 30 tons Made substantial reduction In the number of or unserviceable locomotives Reduced the accumulation of loaded O but unmoved freight eIght cars from on March 1 to on December 3 of or which which on only I were detained beI because be be- I 1 caus cause of the Inability of or the railroads railroad I.- I. to move them I Relocated approximately box bOl boxcars cars from the east cast to the west lor for the movement of ot farm products Relocated approximately approximate top open cars from the w west est to the east to keep up the production of or coal Moved the third highest coal production pro in the history of the country Spent over o extra on im T proving the m maintenance of tracks bridges cars and and locomotives I Contracted to spend about I largely out of earnings earningS' for add addi additions and betterments to promote the movement of ot cars I Made arrangE arrangements ments to purchase approximately ap ap- 1 proximately OOOO v ne new fr freight Ight cars cars 1500 new locomotives es and 1000 new passenger cars eats Begun the reconstruction of ot thousands thou sands of old cars Moved with oved-with with a deteriorated d plant f under disturbed labor and business conditions the conditions the largest volume of traffic ftc fic ever known in a single year with the highest efficiency Jet et achieved J and with a minimum addition to the v value l ue of the property on which thet the t public ll h has s to pay a return through rates rates |