Possibilities of a Market-Train Service

Excerpt: A market-train service affords an excellent method of restoring, as far as it can be restored, where it has been abandoned, the custom of direct dealing between producer and consumer. It contemplates the shipper loading his products into the car at point of shipment and taking possession of them immediately on arrival of the train at destination. There should be a retail market, or at least a wholesale market, in or adjacent to the city terminal. The service is more valuable to the shipper than ordinary local freight-train service. The time in transit is practically that of trains carrying express matter, but collection and delivery is made by the shipper. Such a service, to be successful, depends on the organized effort of the producing community intelligently directed in sympathetic cooperation with the carrier.