New-York tribune., 1918-01-31
War Supply Trains
To Be Rushed ON
Passenger Time
McAdoo Adopts. Plan to
Speed Allies Materials Di-
rect to Atlantic Ports

A new system OF through freight
transportation, whereby all supplies to
our allies can be rushed practically on
passenger train ttmo from inland
points to the scaboard, was announced
Railways Director who worked out the
plan. The new system has been or
dered in effect Immediately by Director
General of Railways William G. Nc
Adoo
Under this new scheme, whole freight
trains will be given right Of way and
rushed on priority orders from the
point where tho freight is assembled
to the Atlantic port where the goods
will be transferred to ocean liners. The
orders for train movements will be is
Smiths Office in the Grand Central Ter
minal. The old system Of applying pri
ority orders to carloads and individual
shipments is discarded for "priOrity
trains"
Called G. O. c. Specials
These war freight trains will be
car will bc marked by these initials,
thus far unexplained, followed by the
name OF the city ofthc trains destina-
tion, the initial of the city where it
originated and the number Of the train.
Thus a war special from Chicago to
New York viii be designated as &c. 0.
G." New York, c. No. /. The mystic
initials &c. 0. G." will be on all way
bills and running slips.
A number Of inland concentration
points have been designated by Mr..
up, and individual cars or groups Of
cars from the territory adjacent to
these concentration points will be held
tlll a solid train can be made up, or
TIL the group is ordered attached TO an
ordinary through freight train. These
concentration points will be at East
St. Louis, Chicago, Pittsburgh and
! Buffalo.
Further to facilitate the movement
and other supplies. the Eastern rail-
roads have set aside thirteen piers at
their terminals, where the export fleet
may be loaded from cars or with tho
minimum amount Of trucking. This
does away with the present duplicate
system of export freight handling,
/ whereby cars have to be unloaded on
lighters or bargcs and the goods un-
loaded from these vessels on TO the
steamers out in the harbor. The thir-
teen piers can accommodate between
twenty and thirty steamers at q time.
however. some Of the ocean freichters
are too big to be accommodated at any
railroad dock, and these will be loaded
from lighters. The roads contributinc
piers are the New York Central. Erie,
CCacssaw'anna' Cacsa' Lehigh VALLEY, Jersey
ocn'ral and baltimore & Ohio.
80 90 lar as the &c. O. c." specials are
road system in the United States. An
switching delays and postponements
incident to transferring the freight
from one railway system to another
Will be utterly eliminated. The new
system is said by railroad men to be
one OF the most radical departures in
ral!roadlng III years past Mr.. Smith
cstlmates that in good weather a &C.
~ g.. train of eighty cars can cover
se me distance between Chicago and
New Y ork in sixty hours The Frcirh /
traffic Committee will .co0perate With
the Director General Of Railways in or.
ranging for the export shipments.
10 Speed Up Delivery
The. new transportation system is
one OF the important steps taken by the
railways administration in spoediny m ND
freight transportation and rclievinpp
congestion: The Immediate needs
served will be the movement Of inward
OF $4,000 carloads Of export freight
largely food for the British, French
and Italian governments. Of this hure
freight, 10000 carloads originated in
Chicago, st. Louis and points further
West. The rest is scattered at points
east OF Chicago. Permits have been
issued for all Of it by the Freight
Traffic Committee.
During the day eight steamers were
bunkered, leaving twenty-six ships
waiting tor coal: Joseph f. Parsons
Of the United States Shipping Board
said that none of these were in imme.
diate need of fuel. W. 3. Pollock. depu-
ty marine director, reported that sixtv.
eight tugs are laid up for repairs.