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• Effects of ocean carrier double-stack container train services on domestic rail freight services (U.S. Department of Transportation, Transportation Systems Center, 1986), by Richard J. Kochanowski and Transportation Systems Center (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Railroad competitiveness : federal laws and policies affect railroad competitiveness. (United States General Accounting Office, 1992), by United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• Development of hybrid cost functions from engineering and statistical techniques : the case of rail. (U.S. Department of Transportation Research & Special Programs Administration Office of University Research, 1979), by Mark A. Turnquist, Andrew F. Daughety, United States. Department of Transportation. Office of University Research, and Ill.). Transportation Center Northwestern University (Evanston (page images at HathiTrust)

• Uniform railroad costing system : rail carload cost scales, 1980. (Interstate Commerce Commission, Bureau of Accounts :, 1983), by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. Bureau of Accounts (page images at HathiTrust)

• Railroad competitiveness : federal laws and policies affect railroad competitiveness. (United States General Accounting Office, 1992), by United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Carloadings Feb. 28, 1959-1969 (Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Transportation and Public Utilities Branch, 1932), by Canada. Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Transportation and Public Utilities Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law relating to maximum rates and charges on railways. (Butterworth & co., 1897), by A. Kaye Butterworth, Francis Henry Cripps-Day, Arthur Reginald Butterworth, and Great Britain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The economics of loyalty-incentive rates in the railroad industry of the United States. (Washington State University Press, 1963), by Robert F. Lundy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Railway rates, principles and problems (Sir Isaac Pitman & sons, ltd., 1926), by Philip Burtt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The freight classification and traffic territories of the United States. (The United States commerce association, 1913), by Elvin Sydney Ketchum and Thomas D. Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Compilation of convention topics (American association of local freight agents' associations, 1909), by American association of local freight agents' associations and H. M. Waring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Why freight is lost or damaged (The Baughman stationery co., 1908), by Albert Clark Kenly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address to the agents and employes of the Chicago & North western railway company on the proper handling of freight traffic and the losses that will be avoided thereby. ([Geneva? Ill.], 1904), by Ralph Coffin 1855- Richards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railroad freight transportation (D. Appleton and company, 1922), by Leonor Fresnel Loree (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Railway traffic and rates; freight facilities and services (La Fayette institute, inc., 1924), by George Lloyd Wilson and inc. Lafayette institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• The elements of railway economics (The Clarendon press, 1924), by W. M. Acworth and W. T. Stephenson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Government regulations of railway rates (The Macmillan company;, 1905), by Hugo Richard Meyer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• For the railroads (Amerian bank note co., 1905), by H. T. Newcomb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Preferential transportation rates and their relation to import and export traffic of the United States. (Govt. print. off., 1922), by United States Tariff Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to handle freight; address to the agents and employes of the Chicago & North-western railway company, delivered at Chicago, Boone, North Fond du Lac, Madison, Escanaba, Waseca and Huron ([Geneva? Ill.], 1904), by R. C. Richards and Chicago and North Western Railway Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grundzüge der eisenbahnwirtschaftslehre; aus dem englischen übersetzt nebst einleitendem vorworte, von dr. Heinrich, ritter von Wittek ... (Manz, 1907), by W. M. Acworth and Heinrich Wittek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Politico-railway problems and theorists (Thompson & Moreau, printers, 1880), by George Roberts Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personentarifreform und zonentarif. (J. Springer, 1892), by Franz Ulrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eisenbahntarifwesen und eisenbahnmonopol. (Berlin, J. Springer, 1879), by Julius Lehr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rate research; conference report, November 28-29, 1960, Chicago, Illinois. (Chicago, 1961), by Railway Systems and Management Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Progress in railroad marketing; [conference] May 23-25, 1961, Chicago, Illinois. (Chicago, 1961), by Railway Systems and Management Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The law and theory of railway freight rates (B. G. Paul & co., publishers, 1928), by Kalyan Chennakesava Srinivasan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Freight charges calculator (H. C. Baird, 1867), by Andrew Thomson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railroad freight rate structures: Southern territory. (LaSalle Extension University, 1926), by Joseph H. Donnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to save money on freight. (Shippers publications company, 1905), by John Stuart Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Industrial traffic departments, organization, management, systems and records. (The American commerce association, 1916), by American Commerce Association and Harry Leigh Derby (page images at HathiTrust)
• The railway freighter's guide. Defining mutual liabilities of carriers and freighters, and explaining system of rates, accounts, invoices, checks, booking, and permits, and all other details pertaining to traffic management ... (S. Low, son, and Marston, 1865), by J. S. Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Routing freight shipments ... (LaSalle extension univ., 1920), by John F Morton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some phases of the transportation problem (J. Byrne & co., 1921), by Francis Bacon James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freight terminals and trains : including a revision of Yards and terminals (McGraw-Hill, 1912), by John Albert Droege (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freight terminals and trains (McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1925), by John Albert Droege (page images at HathiTrust)
• A report on the terminal facilities for handling freight of the railroads entering the port of New York. (Railroad gazette, 1885), by Gratz Mordecai (page images at HathiTrust)
• The railway goods station; a guide to its control and operation (E. & F. N. Spon, ltd.;, 1912), by Fred. W. West (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Statistics of freight traffic (La Salle extension university, 1913), by Julius H. Parmelee and La Salle Extension University (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anordnung der bahnhöfe. (W. Engelmann, 1907), by A. Goering, H. Zimmermann, Ferdinand Loewe, and M. Oder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report and notes of Committee of engineers on terminal railroad valuations. May, 1909. (1909), by General committee on terminals. Committee of engineers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The handbook of railway station management; or, Agent's manual ... (Lee and Nightingale, 1861), by E. B. Ivatts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The principal factors in freight train operating (G. Allen & Unwin ltd., 1924), by Philip Burtt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Routing freight shipments (La Salle extension university, 1913), by John F. Morton and La Salle extension university (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freight claims [by] William A. Trimpe ... (La Salle extension university, 1913), by William Albert Trimpe and La Salle Extension University (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to use it: information, presentation of claims, advice and railroad rules and regulations. (Michigan State Farm Bureau, Traffic Dept., 1921), by Michigan Farm Bureau. Traffic Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der eisenbahn-güterverkehr (deutsche und international). Rathgeber für spediteure, kaufleute und eisenbahnbeamte. Nach dem neuesten stande der vorschriften ... (M. Pasch, 1909), by W. Pietsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Internationales übereinkommen über den eisen-frachtverkehr vom 14. oktober 1890, mit den änderungen und ergänzungen ... vom 16. juli 1895 ... vom 16. juni 1898 und vom 19. september 1906 und zusatzerklärung vom 20. september 1893, vereinbart zwischen Belgien, Dänemark, Deutschland, [u.s.w.] ... Vom 2. dezember 1908 an gültiger deutscher text in der vom central-amt in Bern veröffentlichten fassung, mit bemerkungen und sachregister (J. Springer, 1910), by Ernst Blume and Convention internationale sur le transport de marchandises par chemins de fer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Eisenbahn-Verkehrswesen. Grundlegende vorarbeiten für ein Neuordnung und künftige Verkehrs-Wissenschaft (O. Füssli, 1895), by Ludwig Ed Trommer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Eisenbahnfrachten und das Sinken der Preise : ein Beitrag zur socialen Frage (Walther & Apolant, 1886), by Industrielle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Eisenbahn-Güterverkehr : (deutsch und international) : Rathgeber für Spediteure, Kaufleute und Eisenbahnbeamte, nach dem neuesten Stande der Vorschriften (M. Pasch, 1901), by Walter Pietsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Reformen im Eisenbahn-Güter-Verkehr (Selbstverlag, 1874), by Ludwig Ed Trommer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rules and regulations governing freight traffic ([s.n.], 1892), by Alfred L. Fraser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freight traffic : explaining the physical features of the service, basis of rates, supervisory work, and technical methods of control and accounting (The World railway Pub. Co., 1907), by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Verzeichnis der zu Eisenbahn-Güter-Sendungen erforderlichen Begleitpapiere nach den verschied. Staaten und Ländern (J.P. Strauss, 1905), by C. Osterroth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Résumé des prescriptions réservées à la législation des états contractants par la Convention internationale sur le transport de marchandises par chemins de fer. 2. éd., octobre 1904. Zusammenstellung der Bestimmungen, welche im Internationalen Übereinkommen über den Eisenbahn-Frachtverkehr den Gesetzen und Reglementen in den Vertragsstaaten überlassen sind. (Impr. H. Keller, 1904), by Convention internationale sur le transport de marchandises par chemins de fer (1904 : Lucerne) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Railroad freight rates in relation to the industry and commerce of the United States (H. Holt and company, 1909), by Logan G. McPherson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great railway freight-car problem and its cheapest and best solution (Printed at the Lawrence Asylum Press, 1907), by H. W. Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railway traffic and rates (La Fayette institute, inc., 1923), by Lewis H. Haney (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of conditions affecting the transportation of grain by railroad. (Washington, 1953), by United States. Department of Agriculture. Production and Marketing Administration and William J. Hudson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Proceedings of the ... annual meeting. (Mid-west Shippers Advisory Board., 1924), by Mid-West Shippers Advisory Board, Association of American Railroads. Car Service Division, and American Railway Association. Car Service Division (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Agricultural transportation services : needs, problems, opportunities (U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1980), by United States. Dept. of Transportation, United States. Dept. of Agriculture, and United States. Rural Transportation Advisory Task Force (page images at HathiTrust)
• Summary of public hearings on agricultural transportation held by the Rural Transportation Advisory Task Force. (U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1979), by Linda McKoy and United States. Rural Transportation Advisory Task Force (page images at HathiTrust)
• Competition in the intercity freight market : a waybill study of the motor-carrier industry. (U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of Systems Analysis and information, 1971), by Alexander L. Morton and United States. Dept. of Transportation. Office of Systems Analysis and Information (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traffic and transportation. (LaSalle Extension University, 1952), by La Salle Extension University (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Systems engineering for intermodal freight systems : phase I, exploratory planning. (U.S. Federal Railroad Administration, 1978), by D. Hill, United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Research and Development, Boeing Computer Services, General Motors Corporation. Transportation Systems Division, Herbert O. Whitten Associates, Marwick Peat, and Inc A. T. Kearney (page images at HathiTrust)
• A simulation analysis of the economic consequences of establishing multi-modal transportation companies (School of Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, 1972), by Robert S. Tripp and Air Force Institute of Technology (U.S.). School of Engineering (page images at HathiTrust)
• Domestic containerization : a preliminary feasibility study. (Association of American Railroads, 1986), by Association of American Railroads. Freight Equipment Management Program and Barker & Sloane Temple (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Conrail's attempts to improve its use of freight cars : report to the Congress (General Accounting Office, 1978), by United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uslovīi︠a︡, opredi︠e︡li︠a︡i︠u︡shchīi︠a︡ dvizhenīe i sbory na zheli︠e︡znykh dorogakh : valovoĭ dokhod i ego factory--Kolichestvo tovarnykh gruzov (Tip. A.I. Mamontova i Ko., 1878), by A. I. Chuprov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freight claims (La Salle extension university, 1922), by William Albert Trimpe and La Salle Extension University (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evaluation of the Secretary of Transportation's rail services report, Rail service in the Midwest and Northeast region : report of the Rail Services Planning Office to the United States Railway Association. (Interstate Commerce Commission :, 1974), by United States Railway Association and United States. Rail Services Planning Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• The U.S. Railroads : some alternatives for improvement (The Administration ;, 1977), by J. M. Sussman and United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Policy and Program Development (page images at HathiTrust)
• Darstellungen aus dem Gebiete des Eisenbahnwesens (Stämpfli & cie, 1908), by Robert Bernhardt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Freight rates : Correspondence between Charles McKernon ... and William C. Brown ... (James Kempster Print, 1908), by Charles McKernon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mechanical appliances for handling railway traffic. (Railway Gazzette, 1921), by George Vicary Owen Bulkeley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Railway operation : the goods depot. ([London], 1915), by John A. Jenkinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Correspondence between Grand Trunk Railway Company and the Allan Line Steamship Company regarding blockage of freight at Portland, Me., 1873] (s.n., 1873), by Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada, C. J. Brydges, and Allan Line (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buffalo, Brantford & Goderich Railway freight tariff (s.n., 1854), by Brantford and Goderich Railway Company Buffalo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Agreement between the Union Pacific Railway Company, Oregon Short Line Railway Company, and Utah and Northern Railway Company and the Northern Pacific Railroad Company and Oregon Railway and Navigation Company : dated February 23d, 1883. ([S.l., 1883), by Union Pacific Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amendment (revised May 1, 1915) to freight rates : studies in rate construction. (Chicago, 1915), by John Philpot Curran (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rules and regulations governing freight traffic (Press of Gelhaar, Fleming & Fuller], 1892), by Alfred L. Fraser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freight : the shippers' forum. (Freight Pub. Co., 1904) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railway charges for the transportation of wool, July, 1896. (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Division of Statistics, 1896) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Goods hidden from view by wrapping and boxing : hearing before the subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Sixty-fourth congress, first session, on S. 538 ... S. 3069 ... S.3954. (G.P.O., 1916), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The railways and the people (The New economics publishing company, 1922), by Sterling P. King (page images at HathiTrust)
• Industrial traffic management (Sir I. Pitman & sons, ltd., 1915), by George B. Lissenden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Railways and agriculture, 1900-1910. (Bureau of Railway Economics, 1913), by Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railway traffic maps : prepared for the course in inter-state commerce (La Salle Extension University, 1912), by William Arthur Shelton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulk commodity transportation in the Upper Mississippi River Valley : by J. Fruin, W. Young, K.W. Easter and H. Jensen. (Dept. of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, 1975), by Jerry Fruin, H. Jensen, K. William Easter, W. Young, and United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. St. Paul District (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tracing of freight; a compilation of data and comments thereon (The Registered Tracer System, 1914), by John Thomas Todd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Institute of railway accounting; text-book of inter-line freight accounts (Chicago, Ill., 1913), by Herbert Johnson Tatlow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Systems engineering for intermodal freight systems : Phase 1, exploratory planning (Dept. of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Research and Development ;, 1978), by Inc A.T. Kearney, Marwick Peat, Herbert O. Whitten Associates, General Motors Corporation. Transportation Systems Division, and United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Research and Development (page images at HathiTrust)
• Loading rules (The Association, 1930), by Mechanical American Railway Association. Division 5 (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rate making and Canadian classification ... (International Textbook Co., 1931), by George Lloyd Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ratios of empty to loaded freight car-miles by type of car and performance factors for way, through and all trains combined, 1972 (Interstate Commerce Commission, Bureau of Accounts, 1973), by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. Bureau of Accounts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transit services and privileges. (Traffic service corporation, 1925), by George Lloyd Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carload waybill statistics: distribution of freight traffic and revenue averages by commodity classes. (Washington., in the 20th century), by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. Bureau of Economics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rail transportation requirements for coal movement in l980 (United States. Dept. of Transportation ;, 1976), by Samir A. Desai, James Anderson, Transportation Systems Center, inc Input Output Computer Services, and United States. Office of Transportation Energy Policy (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Report of the Board of Directors to the Shareholders] (New York : United States Express Company, Office of the President, 1915., in the 20th century), by United States Express Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• A practical scientific treatise on traffic management ([Portland, Or., 1921), by George August Denfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Safety report on the progress of safety modification of railroad tank cars carrying hazardous materials (Washington, D.C. : National Transportation Safety Board, 1979, 1979), by United States. National Transportation Safety Board. Office of Evaluation and Safety Objectives and United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• The long and short haul clause of the act to regulate Interstate Commerce : and its effects upon the rate fabric of the Southeastern States ([University of Georgia?], 1915), by Lincoln Green and University of Georgia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freight classification (La Salle extension university, 1917), by Ernest Ritson Dewsnup, John Philpot Curran, and La Salle Extension University (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings regular meeting (Seattle : The Board., in the 19th century), by Pacific Northwest Advisory Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Consolidated freight classification ... ([LaSalle extension University], 1930), by La Salle Extension University (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La Salle consolidated freight classification ... ([La Salle extension University], 1923), by La Salle Extension University (page images at HathiTrust)
• Before the Interstate Commerce Commission : Docket 16383 and sub-numbers thereto : Adams-Bank Lumber Co., et al., vs. Aberdeen & Rock Fish Railroad Company, et al. ; and investigation and suspension docket 2479 and supplemental orders thereto ; brief for intervenor in docket 16383 and sub-numbers ; and brief for protestant in I & S docket 2479 and supplemental orders. (Southeastern Forest Products Association, 1927), by J. S. Farish and United States Interstate Commerce Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Before the Interstate Commerce Commission, ex parte no. 103. In the matter of increases in freight rates and charges. Answer of petitioners to order of the Commission of June 19, 1931: J.J. Pelley, H.S. Scanrett [and] W.R. Cole, June 24, 1931. (E.W. Traver, 1931), by United States Interstate Commerce Commission (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Atlas of railway traffic maps. (La Salle Extension University, 1913), by William Arthur Shelton (page images at HathiTrust)
• General cargo hinterlands of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New Orleans. (College Park, Md., 1958), by Donald J. Patton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rules for the receipt, handling, stowing, bracing and delivery of less-than-carload freight (Freight Loading and container Section, American Association of Railroads, 1938) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Railroad Rate Structure Survey : hearings before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatves, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session, on H.J. Res. 141, directing the Interstate Commerce Commission to take action relative to adjustments in the rate structure of common carriers subject to the Interstate Commerce Act, and the fixing of rates and changes. April 3, 4, 5, and 9, 1924. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1924), by United States House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carload waybill statistics; State-to-State distribution, manufactures and miscellaneous and forwarder traffic (C.L.) traffic and revenue. (Interstate Commerce Commission, Bureau of Transport Economics and Statistics., 1948), by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. Bureau of Transport Economics and Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)

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