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Continued from page one of Washington Division of the Southern Railway \§£stggi, holds 100 ton of grain, as compared to the standard car which holds only half as much. By changing tunnel heights, these big cars can be used in place of the small cars.
Mr. Monroe, Assistant General Freight and Passenger Agent of Lynchburg says, “Big John’ would enable them to reduce rates and cited the following examples: Under present I.C.C. minimum rates, freight on corn from Louisville to Emmerson is presently $10.50 per net ton on a one-car order; by using “Big John’, and if the above bills are passed, they will reduce the freight to $5.77 per net ton.
Facts show consumers in the, southeast bring in 11 million tons of grain per year. As you realize Rappahannock is a deficit grain producing area. While we don’t use much grain we do use considerable amounts of other bulk commodities, to which similar rate reductions will apply, such as fertilizer.
How does this 11 million tons of grain get to the area? Mr. Monroe stated, “66 per cent of it is brought in by the illegal trucker, who the I.C.C. can’t police effectively; 17 per cent is brought in by rail and 11 per cent by private barge lines.” Thus you can begin to realize how much freight is being hauled over our highways which we help build and maintain, ance.
Similar reduced rail rates will be applied to all bulk commodities, coal, ore, salt, sugar, etc. if these bills are passed in Congress. At present the minimum rates on these items are regulated when transported by rail. They are not regulated when transported on the country’s waterways and these obstacles stand in the way of lower competitive rail rates.
Grain being both a bulk and an agriculturally exempt commodity, moves without regulation in barge and truck carriage, whether it be common or private carriage; yet it
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