A General Freight and Passenger Post: A Practical Solution of the Railroad ProblemG. P. Putnam, 1896 - 312 páginas |
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A General Freight and Passenger Post: A Practical Solution of the Railroad ... James Lewis Cowles Visualização completa - 1905 |
A General Freight and Passenger Post: A Practical Solution of the Railroad ... James Lewis Cowles Visualização completa - 1905 |
A General Freight & Passenger Post: A Practical Solution of the Railroad Problem James Lewis Cowles Visualização completa - 1912 |
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American amount average train Boston car-load carried cent a mile cent a pound cents a hundred charge Chicago cities coal Congress corporation cost Depew distance dollars earnings England English expense farmer favor five cents five-cent fare forty freight car G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS half Hartford haul Haven increase interest Interstate Commerce Commission Interstate Commerce Committee Joint Traffic Association June 30 labor less letter lines load locomotive matter ment merchandise milk Missouri River Octavo ordinary ownership paid passenger train Pennsylvania Railroad persons pooled portation possible Post-office postal principle Postmaster-General profit rail railroad railway managers railway rates railway system Readville revenues road round trip San Francisco says scheme secure shippers stations tariffs taxes levied terminals third rail tickets tion to-day tons transport tax twenty twenty-five uniform rate United Railways weight York Central
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