Show DONT TRAVEL UNLESS NECESSARY because railroad equipment has gone to war the office of defense transportation por tation again is asking that nonessential eisent essential ial travel be curbed as more and more facilities tacUi tica are needed to move the fighting ran inn and equipment the points out that over one half of the pullman sleepers and nearly one fourth of the day coaches are engaged in organized troop movements railroad Kall road equipment still available for regular service is increasingly occupied by service men and women traveling on furlough or leave this travel approximates that of organized troop movements in addition war production has given continued on an last page DONT TRAVEL UNLESS NECESSARY continued from page one rise to an extraordinary amount of war connected business travel all of these things combine to place an extraordinary strain on the nations transportation facilities facil ites the says railroads now are performing more passenger service than in the previous peak year of 1920 and doing it with only two thirds as many passenger cars and less than two thirds as many locomotives some of the d faculties of the trans port problem can be seen from the tact fact that it takes passenger cars as well as 82 baggage cars and over freight cars made up in 65 trains to move an infantry division of men and abid equipment movement of an armored division and its vehicles requires 75 trains of from 28 to 45 cars each |