Enough to Keep Going

In Chicago last week John J. Pelley, head of the Association of American Railroads, told the railroad executives some of the facts of wartime life:

> They are safely over the big fall hump of this year's freight traffic. They will roll up the dazzling total of 630 billion ton-miles this year--33%greater than last year, 89% more than in 1939.

> They will have to handle a 10-15% greater load next year--meaning to move their heavier trains faster than ever before.

The listening railroad men knew that they could do it only if they got some badly needed locomotives, cars and the materials they must have to repair their hard-pounded equipment and rights of way.

Two days later WPB allocated to them enough steel and other materials to: 1) start building 286 steam or diesel road locomotives, 100 diesel switchers and 20,000 open-top cars; 2) allocated 1,100,000 tons of steel for new track and maintenance during the first quarter of 1943.

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