Author finds it uneconomic for railroads to own, maintain and distribute many different types of cars needed to meet modern service requirements; investment in special types of cars minimized; treatment of private cars in repair yards; refrigerator cars produce 2,000,000 loads per yr; how private cars are maintained; moving seasonal crops. Before Chicago Car Foreman's Assn.
Private freight cars serve both railroads and shippers
Ry Age
Railway Age ; 99 , n 2
1935
3 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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