Note 271 — Chapter XXVI · PRIVATE-CAR ABUSES.

A refrigerator car costs $900 to $1000, as a rule. A first-class steel-framed freight car costs about the same. Private stock cars of good build cost about $800 each. (See evidence in Hearings on Private Cars, I. C. C. April, 1904, pp. 19, 100; I. C. C. Rep. 1904, p. 14.) The contracts provide that the railroads are to carry no perishable goods except in Trust cars if the Trust cares to furnish the cars. If by chance the railroads use their own or any other refrigerator cars than those of the Trust they are to charge the full Trust rates and turn over the said charges to the car-line just as if its cars had been used.