AbstractsEconomics

One of the major problems facing the United States Government at the present time is that of the coordination and consolidation of the various types of transportation facilities throughout the country. The largest single factor of transportation is that of the railroads. That railroads and the Government are mutually interdependent goes without saying. In order to have a healthy nation, it is necessary that the nation have healthy arteries of commerce and communication. This work is not intended to forward any type of solution to the problem, but to emphasize the need for coordination and cooperation on the part of all types of carriers and that cooperation and coordination can best be carried out under a system of private ownership supervised by strict government control. It is the intention of the author to chart the course of the governmental relations to railroads in recent times. Railroads were selected to show the causal relationship between the government and transportation because it is felt that railroads are still the largest factor in transportation, and will continue to be indefinitely. As such, the railcarriers typify the transportation system. [...]