Note 263 — Chapter XXVI · PRIVATE-CAR ABUSES.

Some railroads have refrigerator lines of their own; the Pennsylvania, for example, and the Vanderbilts, the Goulds, the Santa Fe, the Northern Pacific, the Great Northern, etc., but they carry the private refrigerators also. Packers and other shippers owning cars insist on sending their goods in their own cars, and making the roads pay mileage. If the road refuses, the freight goes by some other line. “They compel us to take it in their cars and pay them for the use of them while our own cars stand on the side track, or else some other road gets the business.” (Testimony of James J. Hill, Sen. Com., 1905, pp. 1504–1505.)