. The American railway; its construction, development, management, and appliances . compare them with those of the past. THE FREIGHT-CAR SERVICE. By THEODORE VOORHEES. Sixteen Months Journey of a Car—Detentions by the Way—Difficulties of the Car Ac-countants Office—Necessities of Through Freight—How a Companys Cars are Scat-tered—The Question of Mileage—Reduction of the Balance in Favor of Other Roads—Relation of the Car Accountants Work to the Transportation Department—Com-putation of Mileage—The Record Branch—How Reports are Gathered and Com-piled—Exchange of Junction Cards—The Use of Tracer
. The American railway; its construction, development, management, and appliances . compare them with those of the past. THE FREIGHT-CAR SERVICE. By THEODORE VOORHEES. Sixteen Months Journey of a Car—Detentions by the Way—Difficulties of the Car Ac-countants Office—Necessities of Through Freight—How a Companys Cars are Scat-tered—The Question of Mileage—Reduction of the Balance in Favor of Other Roads—Relation of the Car Accountants Work to the Transportation Department—Com-putation of Mileage—The Record Branch—How Reports are Gathered and Com-piled—Exchange of Junction Cards—The Use of Tracers—Distribution ofEmpty Cars—Control of the Movement of Freight—How Trains are Made Up—Duties of the Yardmaster—The Handling of Through Trains—Organization of FastLines—Transfer Freight Houses—Special Cars for Specific Service—Disasters toFreight Trains—How the Companies Suffer—Inequalities in Payment for Car Ser-vice—The Per Diem Plan—A Uniform Charge for Car Rental—What Reforms mightbe Accomplished. I. THE WANDERINGS OF A O N the 14th of December, 1886, there wasloaded in IndianapoHs a car belonging toone of the roads passing through that city. Itwas loaded with corn consigned to parties inBoston. The car was delivered to the LakeShore road at Cleveland on the i6th ; but, owingto bad weather and various other local causes, it. .% : ■] did not reach East Buffalo until December was turned over by the New York Central &Hudson River Railroad to the West Shore road the next day, andby this company was taken to Rotterdam Junction, and there de-livered on December 31st to the Western Division of the Fitch-burg Railroad, or what was then known as the Boston, HoosacTunnel & Western. They took it promptly through to a few days the corn was sold by the consignees for deliveryin Medfield, on the New York & New England Railway. The 268 THE FREIGHT-CAR SERVICE. car was delivered to this road on January 24,
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