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Jan 1922
Railroad Transportation
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It was the speaker's good fortune, from 1903 to 1913, to be President of the Northern Pacific Railway Company. In that decade the owners and directors spent more than $100 000 000 in improving the property in a physical way, and a large amount of work was done in making the Northern Pacific a transportation machine that could produce a maximum of transportation units with a minimum expenditure of physical energy.
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Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume 85 • Issue 1 • January 1922
Pages: 1006 - 1019
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© 1922 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Howard Elliot, A.ASCE
Chairman, Executive Committee, N. P. Ry., New York City.
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