Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1917 — MOVEMENT OF FREIGHT CARS [ARTICLE]

MOVEMENT OF FREIGHT CARS

In These Days of Stress Sensible Thing to Do Is to Use Them Where Most Needed. The war board of the American Railway association has introduced another novelty in railroad operation. It has ordered the Immediate movement of empty freight cars from roads where they are not needed to roads which need them, despite ownership. Heretofore, all attempt to regulate the movement of empty freight cars has been in the direction of returning cars to their owners. It was often thq case that roads would hold cars of other roads to their own use, no matter how greatly the other roads needed them. It has even been charged that some companies made it a policy to keep down their equipment and commandeer the equipment of other companies. The sensible thing, of course, in these days of stress is to use the freight cars where they are most needed, regardless of ownership.