The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-22
Distances IL, q. S. Too Far
To Depend Upon Trucks
For Breaking of Strike
England With Area of Illinois Had Opportunity Keep
Alive Without Rail ransportation-Sanford FARRELL
Points Out Service Distribution in America.

I from Kansas City into Missouri, Arkansas.
and Louisiana. Transports much lumber,
| lead, zinc. coal and agricultural products
( Missouri Pacific-Operating west and
southwest from St Louis. with extensive
mileage in Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma,
Kansas, and Colorado. An agricultural
| products carrier.
international and Great Northern-Op-
Grating north from several of the Mexican
! gateways on the Rio Grande Carries
Texas cattle via connecting lines to the
packing houses.
| Orleans to California. The largest carrier
of California fruits to the east. Taps oil,
mining, and agricultural regions in Ari-
| Only a part of the Southern Pacific
system is affected by the Oct. so walkout
Southern Railway-Operating south from
Washington thru Virginia, North and
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Ala
bama. The most important railway in
raw products cotton, tobacco, sugar, rice,
tropical fruits, nuts etc) Of Dixie:
Virginia Ratlway-Operating in Virginia
A small line, connecting, however, with
several larger systems.
st. LOuis and Southwestern-Oper
| in Missouri and Arkansas An agricul-
turial and lumber carrier.
Chicago. Milwaukee and St Paul-Op-
Grating from Chicago to the coast thru
Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, the
Dakotas, Montana, Idaho, Washington and
Oregon, with an important spur from Chi
big lines of the country. A transcontinen-
tai railroad which ships thousands of ears
Of wheat corn, cattle, hogs, sheep, copper,
and other minerals to the east.
Northern Pacific: Operating from the
Twin Cities west of the Pacific coast thru
the same states served by the Chicago,
Milwaukee s. st. Paul. A Hill line of vast
Importance in bringing to the centers of
population the wealth of the west.
Chicago, Rock Island 6 Pacific: Operat-
ing west, north and southwest from Chi
cagO thru Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Mime
etas New Mee6 and Goo
RADIO. A freight business of huge di-
mensiOns. chiefly of agricultural products
Seaboard Air Line: Operating along the
Atlantic coast south from Washington. An
agricultural carrier.
operating from Chicago thru Illinois, Iowa
and Wisconsin. Carries agricultural prod
| ucts
The railroads in the second group,
| scheduled to feel the strike blow at
A. M, November 8. with their terri
tories and important freight traffic
assets, follow:
New York, New Haven & Hartford-Op-
Grating Il network of thru, branch and sub
urban lines in Massachusetts, Connecticut
and Rhode Island. Carries raw materials
TO New England and manufactured articles
out of it. Also an impOrtant carrier of
dairy products. foods and meat into New
Delaware & Hudson-Operating south
from Montreal into New York and Penn
| sylvania An Important coal railroad.
Chicago & Eastern IllifOis-Operating all
ucts carrier, with a large volume of bust
ness
St Louis & San Francisco-Operating
west and southwest from st. Louis and
also southeast into Alabama. Carries coal
| from Alabama, lumber from Arkansas and
| oil from Oklahoma and Kansas
Louisville Notwithstanding from
Cincinnati, Louisville and ST. Louis to the
south. An important freight line for coal
and agricultural products.
Nickel Plate-Operating in Illinois, In
diana and Ohio. Carries agricultural and
steel products.
Erie-Operating from Illinois to the At
lantic seabOard. Taps coal regions, manu-
featuring districts and farm country.
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe-Operat-
longest mileage in the country. Has been
a prosperous line since 1896. serves the
richest agricultural regions in the west,
and does the largest volume of freight
business of the continental roads.
Atlantic Coast Line-Operating along the
| Atlantic seaboard, south of the Potomac
An agricultural products carrier.
Delaware, Lackawanna & Hudson-Op-
Grating thru New York state and Pcnnsyl-
vania. Has n heavy freight traffic bust
| ness; especially in coal and manufactured
! Lehigh valley-Operating main line
! from Buffalo to New York CITY with nu-
merous branches in the Pennsylvania coal
fields. A heavy coal carrier.
Buffalo. Rochester & Pittsburgh-On-
Grating in New York and Pennsylvania.
For Its mileage It probably has the largest
| traffic in iron and steel products, CARRYING
the iron from Lake Erie to the steel plants
and the finished steel to various connecting
lines.
Nashville. Chattanooga & St Louis-Op-
Grating IN Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia
| An agricultural products carrier