American Railroads Their Relation to Commercial Industrial And Agricultural in
American Railroads Their Relation to Commercial Industrial And Agricultural in
George Henry Daniels
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It is not an infrequent occurrence for a single engine to haul through the Mohawk Valley, beside the Erie Canal, eighty-five to ninety thousand bushels of grain in a single train. The same engine will haul from one hundred and ten to one hundred and twenty-five empty cars. When you consider that in the busy season there are from seventy-five to one hundred such trains a day passing over the New York Central alone, you will get some conception of the situation. Export Trade Requires Fast Time* T...he third cause for the failure of the canals is the general demand of the American public for quick time. A shipper having a hundred thousand barrels of flour, or a million bushels of grain for export, must move it from Buffalo to New York within a specified time, and he cannot risk the slow process of the canal. Railroads Essential to Progress* In a recent address before the Chamber of Com- merce of Rochester, N. Y. , I cited this illustration 13 of the difference between modern railway transporta- tion and transportation by canal.
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