ISBN: 9781130083378

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 346 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.7in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… Altro …

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 346 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.7in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: . . . The cost of this traffic to the carriers accordingly varies in the individual cases. Figures were offered by the defendants, purporting to show the cost of handling a car of water from Sand Ridge and Carbondale. 111. , to Jlerrin, 111. , distances of 28 and 12 miles, respectively, as follows: 1 Loading performed by yard engine and crew. These figures, it was stated, do not cover all items of expense, including extra switching at Hcrrin incident to unloading, and delay to the local train while the water is being loaded at Sand Ridge. It should be noted, however, that water generally moves in lots of from 5 to 20 cars, and the defendants witness admitted that where a number of cars were hauled at a time the terminal cost per car would be much lower. It was also testified for defendants that on 190 carloads of water hauled from Alton, 111. , to mines at Witte, 111. , on the St. Louis division of the Big Four, a distance of 60. 6 miles, between July 31 and September 4, 1918, the cost was 26. 19 per car. A special crew was engaged exclusively in this service, and the total cost was estimated at 1, 977. 27, as follows: Cost of equipping 10 cars, at 69. 15 each 691. 50 Cost of owning cars for 297 car days, at 1. 31 per day 389. 07 25 round trips of 121 miles at 1. 25 per freight-train mile 3, 781. 25 Man employed at Alton to load cars 115. 45 Total. 4. 977. 27 These figures are subject to qualification, as the item of 691. 50, representing the cost of equipping the cars for water service, although originally paid by the carrier, would, it was testified, be ultimately charged to the coal operator. The propriety of including the item of 389. 07 for the cost of owning the cars during the time they were in this service also seems questionable, since the record discloses th. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<