Download or read book The Freight Car Supply Problem and Car Rental Policies (Classic Reprint) written by Patrick Parker Boles and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Freight Car Supply Problem and Car Rental Policies Numerous factors affect the ownership Of freight cars - interchange of some equipment among lines, differing eeds Of the products moved and the areas served, and the high costs of acquiring and maintaining railroad equipment. When a freight car moves from one railroad to another with a load, efficiency dictates that the receiving line use the car productively, if feasible, rather than return it em ty. Standardization of track gage about 1886 and the adoption of a standard automatic coupler 2 years later made this interchange of cars possible (16, p. 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.