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short course in railwaytransportation  \nChicago  \n1926  \n# cOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESPRESERVATION DIVISIONBIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET\n\nORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED-EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \nRESTRICTIONS ON USE:  Reproduchions may not be made without permsion trom Columbia UniversityLibraries                    \n# TECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA\n\nFILM SIZE:          mmREDUCTION RATIO:      /1:7  \nINITIALS:                    P  \nDATE FILMED:                    5-8、97  \nTBACKING\\#:                                                                                              MSH19  \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \n# A Short CourseinRailway Transportation\n\nTransportation in General  \nImportance…  ……Page 3Methods……………Page 5  \nWhat Railway Service Means  \nTo the World………Page 7To the Nation……Page 9  \nFactors in Railway Service  \nOrganization……Page 11Patrons.…      …Page 13Employes……………Page 15Owners…  …  …Page 17  \n308  \nBo×296  \nPublished by the  \nILLINOIS CENTRAL SYSTEM  \nC.H.MARKHAM,President  \ne3AA ow91,0w4O  \n# Transportation in ModernLife\n\nTively laied advetpementsoutlining the fundamentals ofrailway transportation were pub-lished during the school year1925-26 in student newspapersand magazines at thirty-threecolleges and universities locatedalong the lines of the IlinoisCentral System.The purpose ofthis series was to stimulate stu-dent thought upon railway mat-ers and thereby to lay a ground-work of improved understandingupon which the nation's leadersof the future may develop intelli-gently their attitude toward pub-lic regulation of the railroads.  \nFew subjects are of greater practical importanceto the participant in modern life than the subject oftransportation.Transportation enters in some wayinto virtually 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 mill at which it wasmanufactured.The ink out of which these words areforned was mixed at perhaps an equal distance inanother direction.The printing press which unites theink and the paper may very well be a product ofanother part of the country altogether.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 manywidely scattered mines.It is not only possible butentirely probable that the materials used in preparingthis paragraph have traveled an aggregate distanceequivalent to a trip around the world.  \nThis paragraph,moreover,is only one incident in areader's busy life.When we apply the same test tothe variety of commodities entering into food,clothing,heat and shelter and then add to these necessities thecountless luxuries which modern civilization affords,we get some idea of the extent to which transportationserves all of us today.  \nThe process of civilization has been largely a struggleagainst the primeval limitations of time and place.Astransportation has developed,life has been broadened;more has been put into it;its possibilities have beenincreased.The difference between ancient and modern  \nconditions of life is mainly a difference in character oftransportation.  \nIt was not so long ago that the horizons imposed bytransportation were limited.There was comparativelylittle interchange of goods.That which came from adistance was limited in quantity and prohibitive in pricebecause of the hardships and great costs involved intransporting it.That which was produced near at handwas a drug upon the market.Tastes'were few andsimple—they had to be;there was no virtue in that.  \nNow,by means of improved transportation,ourstandards of living have been improved.We can in-telligently and proitably specialize in production.Wecan do better work and more of it and get more for it.We can exchange our products for the products of allparts of the world as we need them;they are easierto get,and we are 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