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Show riAILROADS BREAK MHCBECOBOS LARGEST GROSS TONNAGE AND GREATEST HAULAGE PER CAR IN HISTORY IS ATTAINED. Chairman of Executive Association Makes Report of Achievements of Railroad of the Nation for Year Which Is Most Satisfactory. New York. Thomns DeWItt Cujler, . chairman of the Association of ltnll-i ltnll-i way Incentives, nutliorizes the following follow-ing statement reviewing the railroad situation for the current year. This Is the record yuar of American railroad operation. Not only has n lnrger gross tonnage been moved than over before, but new records have been established In the amount of transportation transpor-tation gotten out of each car. Kven during the war yenr of 1018 the highest high-est performance wns 401 ton miles per enr per day, while for August, lOliO, tho average wns C57, und for .September .Septem-ber and October, 503. In the nine full months since tho government turned hnck the railroads to their owners on March 1, the mil-road mil-road companies under private operation opera-tion hnvo: Increased the average movement per freight enr per day 0.3 miles from 2-3 to 28.0 miles. Increased the average load per car 1.7 tons from 28.3 to 30 tons. Muile substantial reduction In the number of unserviceable locomotives. Itediiced the accumulation of loaded but unmoved freight cars from 103,237 on March 1 to 21,091 on December 3, of which only 0380 were detained he-causo he-causo of the Inability of the railroad to move them. Helocnted approximately 180,000 box cars from the east to the west for the movement of farm products. Relocated approximately 1S0.000 open-top cars from the west to the cast to keep up the production of coal. Moved the third highest coal production pro-duction In the history of tho country. Spent over $.100,000,000 extra on Improving Im-proving the maintenance of tracks, bridges, curs and locomotives. Contracted to t,pcud about Si'iO.OOO,-000, Si'iO.OOO,-000, largely out of earnings, for additions addi-tions ami betterments to promote the movement of cars. Made arrangements to purchase approximately ap-proximately f0,000 new freight .enrs, 1500 new locomotives nnd 1000 new pnseiigcr cars. Hegun the reconstruction of thousands thou-sands of old cars. Moved with u deteriorated plant, under disturbed labor and business conditions the largest volume of traffic traf-fic ever known hi a single year, with the highest efficiency yet achieved, and with a minimum addition to the vnlue of the property on which tho public bus to pay a return through rates. |
