The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-12-10
CAPACITY LOAD
HELPS TRAFFIC
Pennsylvania Railroad Gives Facts and
Figures Concerning Some OF
It's Business

Tho following order has been issued
' from the freight offices Of IN" frhnSEI-
. vania railroad for the int"rInatlnm OF inc.
public. and VIII h" OF interest," ne pu'-
3 lrtin is of value as ii shows that enortS
! to load cars To capacity have increased
the carrying power OF the road TO
! great extent. 49,, ,o
! In view OF tho fact that there nave
| been during the past year fewer lrrlEht
: cars than there WIS freight offered lot
TRANSPORTATION. the railroads have been
making n particular effort 10. nave ctch
| freight car perform tn" maximum pos
! fort has heretofore been devoted toward
! loading each car 10 the utmost and MAX
| ing each car mov" the largest posS'p'e
number of miles per day.
| Figures Just available disclose inc TACT
! that ON the Pennsylvania system during
| September an average load or almost 9o
| tons per ear was attained IN chrr!lhS
| nearly ten milliOnst uns of coal coke ana
An frcig ht shipped in carload quaint
| tics tolalled more than sixteen mlllloh
| tons. This was an increase OF NOR IMAM
| two million tons over the August tratil &c.
S6g. 26j cars were required TO handle TINS
tonnage and the average load per car
| WAS 43.4 tons. This figure marks the
| peak Of the progressive Improvement
! since June brought about by the Penn
! SylVan!a'S SyStrm-wld campaign Tor IN
creased carlosdinE efficiency. The June
figure of tons per loaded car (conSldcr-
| Ing car load shipments only was AZ: in
July this was raised 10 al; in August
| 70 422; and N September to asa.
| The foregoing figures do not INCLUDE
! freight shipped in less than carload lots
or quantities where the average tonnage
per car is low. When this traffic IS
| taken into consideration, the average
! load per car a. reported to the Bureau or
! Railway Economics was $50 tons In Sep
! TENDER. This figure exceeds by moro
| than onr-tifth the figure II thirty toHS
! per loaded car set as national goal Tor
! the railroads by the Association OF Rail-
way Executives.
| 1t was also stated that owing TO the
recent extensions on both the Ohio and
| West Virginia sides Of the river. addi-
! tional business has been brought to
Wheeling Every one. formerly in War
! wood, FollanSbce. Wellsburg. Stcuben-
| Vile and Other nearby cities that had
cctcnsi"Ls of tracks to be made or had
complaints Of any kind went ~ Pitts
| hurgh. Now, they come I" wheeling
/ and. OF necessity. spend money IN tho
| city.
| II was also stated that the big slide
! OF earth that took place at the rear end
! of the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania depot Is
| being utilized 1t will be remembered
| that engineers that worked on the Fana-
ma canal project were called in TO devise
| a way to stop the avalanche of earth
| that came from the hill tops down on
| the Pennsylvania tracks.
The dirt Is now removed as fast as
| It falls and taken in cars TO the yards at
Mingu Junction which are being raised
! ana made larger. The yards will BE- in
! creased TO four times their size and
raised twenty feet. and Will have n ca
! nlC!ty Of 5000 cars. thus relieving the
congestion Of the wards at Pittsburgh
and WrllSVillc.