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transportation\n\nChicago  \n1927  \n## COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESPRESERVATION DIVISIONBIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET\n\nOBIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED-EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \nMarkham,Charles Henry,1861-A introductory survey of railway transportation….Chicago,n.p.,1927.34p  \n Reproductions may not be made without permission from Columbla University Libraries                  \n### RESTRICTIONS ON USE:\n\n## TECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA\n\nFILM SIZE:          5mmREDUCTION RATIO:     /0:/  \nMAGE PLACEMENT:IA(A)  \nIIB  \nIB I  \nDATE FILMED:                    97  \nINITIALS:                  M  \nTBACKING\\#:                                                                                                MSH 24ag  \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \n## An Introductory SurveyofRailway Transportation\n\n3C8  \nTransportation in General  \n7  \nImportance…………Page 3Methods…         Page 5  \n27  \nWhat Railway Service Means  \nTo the World…   …Page7To the Nation………Page 9  \nFactors in Railway Service  \nOrganization…  …Page 11Patron…       Page 13Employes……   …Page 15Owners…       …Page 17  \nDepartments of a Railroad  \nGeneral……   …Page 19Transportation   …Page 21Traffic          .Page 23Purchasing and Supply Page 25Accounting…    …Page 27Law…          …Page 29Engineering……  Page 31Health…      …Page 33  \nPublished by the  \nILLINOIS CENTRAL SYSTEM  \nL.A.DOWNS,President  \n1930DA  \n个HE following sixteen state-  \nI ments were published during  \nthe school years 1925-26 and  \n1926-27 as advertisements in stu-  \ndent newspapers and magazines  \nat colleges and universities located  \nalong the lines of the Illinois Cen-  \ntral System.The purpose of this  \nseries was to lay a ground-work  \nof improved understanding upon  \nwhich the nation's leaders of the  \nfuture might base intelligently  \ntheir attitude toward the rail-  \nroads.  \n## Transportation in ModernLife\n\nFew subjects are of greater practical importance tothe participant in modern life than the subject of trans-portation.\"Transportation enters in some way into vir-tually everything we have or do  \nTake,for example,this paragraph.The paper uponwhich it is printed has traveled perhaps hundreds,pos-sibly thousands,of miles from the mil at which it wasmanufactured.The ink out of which these words areformed was mixed at perhaps an equal distance inanother directionThe printing press which unites theink and the paper may very well be a product ofanother part of the country aitogether.The raw mate-rials out of which the paper,ink and press are madehave to be assembled at the points of manufacture.Thetype metal used in printing is a product of many widelyscattered mines.It is not only possible but entirelyprobable that the materials used in preparing this para-graph have traveled an aggregate distance equivalent toa trip around the worid.  \nThis paragraph,moreover,is only one incident in areader's busy life.When we apply the same test tothe variety of 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