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taking a Pullman at New York when you 

 go to Chicago by the Pennsylvania, for 

 instance, you 

 ride in a day 

 coach to Pitts- 

 burgh and enter 

 your sleeper 

 there. Pullman 

 chair cars on 

 daylight trains 

 are 1 i ni i te d 

 to one car per 

 train. An ex- 

 ception is the 

 famous Con- 

 gressional 

 Limited, be- 

 tween New York 

 and Washing- 

 ton, which for- 

 merly carried 

 only Pullmans 

 and made the 

 run in fivehours, 

 but which now 

 carries four 

 Pullmans and 

 six day coaches 

 and takes six 

 hours for the 

 trip. Observa- 

 tion and club cars 

 diners are hauled 



Showing the railroad lines that converge 

 at New York. Situation is complicated 

 by the Hudson River and, at present, by ice 



have been cut off; 

 only on important 



trains, and then only for the shortest 

 possible distance. 



"Put the punch in car movements," is 

 the slogan adopted by the railroads — and 

 freight cars are what 

 is meant. Demurrage 

 rates, or charges made 

 against consignees for 

 failure to unload cars 

 promptly, have been 

 doubled by Mr. Mc- 

 Adoo's order. The 

 roads no longer have 

 to return freight cars 

 to the lines that own 

 them, but treat "for- 

 eign" cars as their 

 own and load them 

 . for any points to 

 which they have 

 freight to ship. The 

 unlimited pooling of 

 freight cars is already 

 relieving the car short- 

 age situation greatly. 

 The next big step, 

 for which plans had 

 been drawn early in 

 January by the ad- 

 visers of the Director- 

 General, was the fur- 

 ther elimination of 

 competition between 

 the roads by arranging to have certain 

 kinds of freight carried by one road, 

 other kinds by other roads, and all the 

 facilities of each line centered on the most 



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Cincinnati coal barges caught in mid-river by an ice jam. Citizens crossed treacherous ice 

 on boards to get at the coal. All the country has gone to such lengths to escape freezing 



