Horloge Ronde Trains Send Your Bags ahead by Railway Express

Train Can Send Your Bags ahead by Railway Express Wall Clock From www.railphotoexpress.biz You could ask the Railway Express Man for help at time, on your train. Your package ou parcel veut travel dans un service de détail presque dependable. Railway Express is Express service is the prompt and safe movement of parcels, money, and goods at rates higher than standard freight rates. It is generally considered to have been started by William Harriden, qui en 1839 commença à regular trips between New York and Boston carrying such items. Other early names in the express business are those of William G. Fargo, a New York Central freight clerk at Auburn, N.Y., et Henry Wells, a leather worker at Batavia, N.Y., organized Wells Fargo & Co. in 185 3; Henry B. Plant, who formed Southern Express; Alvin Adams; et John Butterfield. The express business flourished in the latter half of the 19th century, and by 1900 there were four principal express companies: Adams, Southern, American, et Wells Fargo. En 1913, la première partie de la concurrence dans le domaine de la concurrence express. Express continued to climb until 1920, then remained stable for a decade. During World War I, the United States Railway Administration took over the nation's railroads. Under the USRA, the four companies were consolidated as American Railway Express, Inc., except for the portion of Southern Express that operated over the Southern Railway and the Mobile & Ohio (et that cams into the organization en 1938) À March en 1929, the assets and operations of American Railway Express were transferred to Railway Express Agency. REA was owned by 86 railroads in proportion to the express traffic on their lines - no railroad or group of railroads had control of the agency. The Railway Express arrangement with the railroads was was that they provided terminal space and cars and moved the cars at their expense; REA paid its own express divided the profit the railroads in proportion to the traffic. Service express au Canada et au Mexique. Express revenues remained at profitable levels into the 1950, albeit partly because of rate increases - volume dropped substantially after World War II. Les railroads began to view express service as expensive business. REA negotiated a new contract in 1959 which allowed it to use any mode of transport, and it acquired truck rights to allow continued service after passenger trains discontinued. It tried piggyback and containers, but without much success. En 1969, after several years of defiocarbures, REA quoi sold to five of its officers and renamed REA Express. By then only 10% of its business moved by rail and its entire constituted less than 10% of intercity parcel traffic.