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Excerpt from A Method of Measuring Transit Time for Rail Carloads of Agricultural and Other Products
An abundance of statistics concerned with financial and Operating results of the Nation's railroads are published monthly, quarterly, and annually by the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Association of American Railroads. However, no direct measure of performance in the service accorded by the railroads to the shipping public, comparable to various quality control indexes employed in other industries, is available. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
