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Show oo '- RAILROADS ARE NOW CONGESTED All Roads in the East Are in Danger of a Severe Tie-up. There Are 40,000 to 50,000 Freight Cars Waiting to be Unloaded. New York Nov. 30. The presidents of their representatives of all trunk line railroads running Into New York City met today at tho Pennsylvania terminal, Jersey City, to consider ways and means for relieving the freight congestion which has become acute during the last rcw weeks. Although in many cases railroad men have been loath to discuss present pres-ent freight conditions, it is known that between 40,000 and 50.000 freight cars arc now at or near New York terminals termi-nals waiting to be unloaded. Today's meeting follows the action of the Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio yesterday in declaring embargoes embar-goes on certain forms of export freight the report that the railroads will cooperate co-operate on uniform embargo rules 'The Lackawanna began an embargo yesterday on various forms of freight coming into New Jersey terminals. This affects the shipment of grain from Buffalo and other lake points, as the Lackawanna regulates the grain movements by restraining the number of cars at Buffalo. Every freight terminal in this district dis-trict has been running under top speed for several weeks. But the number of loaded freight cars in the yards has increased so rapidly that three of the trunk line roads were forced to declare embargoes and all of the other lailroads have found it necessary to lake determined action at once. C. C McCain, chairman of the Trunk Lino association, is now in Washington conferring with the interstate inter-state commerce commission in an effort ef-fort to obtain permission, it was stated, sta-ted, for tho me'mber roads to extend the privilege of charging demurrage upon grain while it is left in cars, under un-der certain conditions, as well as after It has been placed in elevators. eleva-tors. The present congestion, which is said to bo the worst in years, has been largely caused, railroad men claim, by the effort on the part of grain men along the Great Lakes to empty their elevators as quickly as possible to receive additional grain before the Great Lakes shipping season sea-son officially closes on December 12. -on |