Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1918 — HAS REDUCED CAR SHORTAGE [ARTICLE]

HAS REDUCED CAR SHORTAGE

Railroad War Board Gets Information That Merging of Roads Big Success. Information gathered by the railroad war board indicate i that the voluntary action of the roads merging themselves into one great continental system has made the transportation problem much easier to handle. Concrete instances of what has been accomplished are summarized as follows: Car shortage, has been reduced 70 per cent. The carriers have achieved the astounding feat of adding to their freight service an amount equal to the joint traffic of Great Britain, France, Russia, Germany and Austria. Approximately 20,000,000 miles of train service a year have been saved by the elimination of passenger trains not essential to pressing needs. This has released locomotives and cleared thousands of miles of track needed in the transportation of necessities.