NEW RAILROAD ERA

Grey River Argus, 16 February 1933, Page 5

NEW RAILROAD ERA

PROPOSED IN AMERICA One National System (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received February 15 at 8.25 p.m.) NEW YORK, February 14. A new era in United States trans portation, with adequate regulation, and concentrating upon insuring the most efficient service at the lowest competitive cost, is envisaged in tho report of the National Transportation Committee published on Tuesday night. The Committee urges the sweeping consolidation of the railroads on a regional basis in order to eliminate “the vast and wasteful duplication of facilities and services.” The report sets forth that these groupings of railways should be enforced by Governmental action where necessary The Committee are looking eventually to a single national railroad system. The report, which is the result of more than four months’ labour, most of it under tho late Mr Calvin Coolidge, contends that the inland waterways of the country should bo made to pay their own way, or else be abandoned. It says tho proposed St Lawrence deep waterway, now in the Treaty stage between Canada and the United States, should be built on'y if it can meet this test. The report has anxiously been awaited by large investors in America’s twenty million dollar railway system.