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Show Rail Traffic Hurt by Water Kansas City Losses suffered by the railroads because of water competition competi-tion were testified to by railroad witnesses wit-nesses in the interestate commerce commission hearing into the pleas of western trunk line roads for Increases In class freight rates. "Western railroads rail-roads have suffered tremendously from competition In transportation via tho Panama canal," declared II. J. Plumhof, Kansas City, general superintendent super-intendent of the southern division of the Union Pacific, comprising Kansas and Colorado. "Since the opening of the canal," Plumhof said, "we have been sending and Increasing number of empty box cars westward, which formerly were utilized by shipments of freight to the west, the curs to be returned to the east with .commodities from this imporant producing sec-ion." |