Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1918 — Use Logging Cars. [ARTICLE]

Use Logging Cars.

In the serious shortage of railway cars w’hlch has existed during recent 'months the lumber companies, along with other concerns, have utilized every available resource to obtain transportation facilities. A large lumber company In Louisiana found a way out of the difficult situation by taking 50 of Its logging cars from its logging roads and making them up Into one long lumber train. By this unusual arrangement it was able to transport 1,500,000 feet of lumber in a single trainload. The effort was so successful that the train has mads a number of trips to the North,