Excerpt from The Freight Car Situation and Prospects Agriculture, and especially grain producers and shippers, have a particular interest in the adequacy of rail transport services. Newspaper headlines of grain and lumber being stored on the ground in the Great Plains and Northwest; testimony of rail road executives, shipper representatives and government officials before Congressional committees in 1965 and 1966; and recent actions by widely scattered shippers, railroads, and government agencies all attest to the fact that there are shortages of railroad freight cars at the present time. 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.