FreightWaves Classics: U.S. railroads were nationalized in World War I

An active Pennsylvania Railroad railyard during World War I. (Photo: University of Pennsylvania Archives)

In the recent FreightWaves Classics article “FreightWaves Classics: Railway Express Agency was THE express package delivery service,” information about the nationalization of the nation’s railroad express services and railroads was included.

This article expands on the information, presenting an overview of the nationalization of most of America’s railroads during World War I.

Railroad problems prior to World War I

FreightWaves Classics: U.S. railroads were nationalized in World War IInterstate Commerce Commission seal.

Congress and the Wilson administration had...

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US regulator probing China’s role in container shortage

A top maritime official has started an informal investigation into whether China is using its market power to monopolize containers and other equipment crucial to international supply chains to pump up rates paid by American exporters.

Carl Bentzel, a U.S. Federal Maritime Commissioner (FMC), told attendees at a virtual business meeting hosted by the Intermodal Association of North America that he is looking into the availability of containers, intermodal chassis and railroad equipment, and...

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FreightWaves Classics: Exploring the history of U.S. railroads

Early beginnings

As profiled in an earlier Flashback Friday article, the railroad was first developed in Great Britain. Although they developed later in the United States than in England, wooden railroads were also built in the American colonies. These early railroads used horse-drawn cars running on tracks. They were built exclusively to transport freight. Termed “wagonways,” the earliest were begun in the 1720s. In addition to the British and colonists using wagonways in North America, the...

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