Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1914 — Railroad Economy. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Economy.

The yardmaster and yardmen are responsible for a lot of losses that were formerly overlooked. The cost of a freight car belonging to another railroad is from thirty to thirty-five cents a day when held unduly. Railroad economy as well as railroad efficiency demands that all cars shall be dispatched to their destination as quickly as possible, unloaded, and returned to their owners. The system of handling these foreign can differs on the various roads. Some apparently have no system, or at best a very clumsy and involved one. , Yean ago, through lack of system, many freight can had the disagreeable habit of disappearing for long periods, and the different roads had to employ car tracers to hunt them up. Some roads, either intentionally or through lack of system, retained borrowed cars Indefinitely, and then sent them back home by the longest route. —Sunday Magazine of the Chicago Herald.