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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...SECOND. The Present Needs Of Railway Co-operation. I. Through Routing and Through Rating. (1) What should be the practice 171 (2) What the present practice is 171 (3) The remedy 172 II. Freight Classification. (1) A uniform classification desirable 173 (2) How to secure a uniform classification 173 III. Co-operation in Restraint of Rate Competition. (1) No a priori conclusion 174 (2) Railway competition not inherently desirable for the railroads. 175 (3) Rail way competition not inherently desirable for the public.. 178 (4) Relative merits of different forms of restraint 182 (5) The pool is inherently, as well as relatively, desirable.... 183 (6) Pooling should be legalized 187 (7) Precautions against abuse of pooling 189 (8) Brief summary of the situation in the three forms of co-opera tion hitherto developed in the United States 190 IV. A Railway Clearing-House. (1) England and the United States in the past 191 (2) The need of a clearing-house in this country 192 (3) The necessary preliminaries to a clearing-house system... 194 (4) Legalization of pooling the most pressing need of the co-opera tive situation 194 PART I. The Evolution Of Railway Co-operation In The United States. I. Co-operation of Connecting Lines to Promote Through Traffic. § i. Railway co-operation made its first appearance in the United States about the year 1850 as the result of a demand for improved facilities in long-distance transportation. Prior to that time, our railroads had been built mainly to meet local needs, to connect neighboring towns, to tap the coal fields, or to supplement water transportation. The concept of long-distance through traffic had not as yet attained dominating importance, and, therefore, though the short, local lines not
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