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Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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that the situa-tion requires them. To a certain extentwe have educated the public on thispoint. But we should keep at it andconvince the smaller shippers, as well,that what we are doing is for theirbenefit.,, Mr. Wight also spoke in regard to ourmethod of permits on goods for exportsvia Baltimore and on the measures thatmust be taken when the Governmentassumes control of all exports. Mr. Thompson then spoke on the in-crease of our freight earnings—twenty-two and one-half per cent, increase since1910—and of our improved equipment,over ninety-two per cent, of which todayis steel underframe and steel cars, animprovement making possible a betterhandling of our business, a less number ofour cars sent out for repairs, which meansbetter dispatch for the commoditiesshipped over our road, and gives ourcommercial men a fine talking point inapproaching the public. Ours is thehighest percentage of steel underframeand steel cars in the United States. 14 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE
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Activities of Trunk Line Association The next speaker was Archibald Fries,freight traffic manager. After outliningthe history and work of the Trunk LineAssociation, which is composed of all thetrunk lines leading from the AtlanticSeaboard to the west and which occupiesa most important position in the railroadworld, he told of some of its latestaccomplishments. He said, in part: The Trunk Line Association initiatedand bore the greater part of the burdenof the fifteen per cent, rate advance,which we all hope is to be brought to asuccessful conclusion. In addition tothat they have, in the last six months,been carefully analyzing the differentrates, rules and regulations governingtraffic in this territory, with a view toincreasing the revenue whenever possible.At a recent meeting the association de-cided to eliminate the rule allowing freelighterage in New York Harbor. Theyhave agreed to increase the minimumweight of merchandise cars from 10,000to 12,500 pounds. As soon as the rate increa

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