. Economy : making dividends by saving them. . a great economy to the railroads as well,;uul enabled them to give more and betterservice to the travelling public for the sameamount of money. Tins is no new thing,hut so thoroughly worked-out a benefit toconcerned that its use is being rapidlydeveloped in localities where the railroadsare not tied up by investments of long standing to certain defined and separate territories, As this development has brought about the tnion Passenger Station in theWest, so the economic evolution of the problem of handling freight has broughl about the Union Freig
. Economy : making dividends by saving them. . a great economy to the railroads as well,;uul enabled them to give more and betterservice to the travelling public for the sameamount of money. Tins is no new thing,hut so thoroughly worked-out a benefit toconcerned that its use is being rapidlydeveloped in localities where the railroadsare not tied up by investments of long standing to certain defined and separate territories, As this development has brought about the tnion Passenger Station in theWest, so the economic evolution of the problem of handling freight has broughl about the Union Freight Station. as expressed by tin. itching engine startsay without delay. WHAT THE BUSH TERMINAL DOES VVTK will suppose that freight shipment of a fill] carLoad is made from the Middle Wesl over a trunkline to a merchant who is a tenant of the Bush TerminalThe man or concern who ships the goods consigns them toMr. John Smith. Hush Terminal. Upon the arrival of thefreight train containing this loaded car at the terminal ofthe railroad in .Jersey City, Hoboken, or on ManhattanIsland, the ear is detached from the train and switcheddown to the water front w here it is pushed aboard a car-float, which is a flat hottom hoat across which run railroadtracks of the same gauge or width as the railroad car. probably with several others lor the same destina-tion, is towed by tug across the narrow intervening strip ofwater to the Hush Terminal docks. Here it is pulled ashoreby the switching engine and hustled away through thefreight yard to the model loft building which Mr. Smithoccupies, be he wholesale merchant or man
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