Author: Samuel O. Dunn

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Published: 2016-06-21

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781332839865

Excerpt from Some Often Overlooked Points Regarding Government Ownership of Railways: Address Delivered by Mr. Samuel O. Dunn, Editor of the Railway Age Gazette Before the Traffic Club of New England Nor does it give a correct idea to say that government ownership has been adopted by most leading countries. Germany has adopted it; but Great Britain adheres to private ownership. Most of the railways of Austria Hungary are state-operated, but most of those of France are still in private hands. Most of the railways of Italy and Russia are state-operated, but in the principal coun try of South America, Argentina, with a mileage greater than that of Italy, and in Canada, with a large and rap idly increasing mileage, private ownership is greatly pre ponderant. Japan is committed to government owner ship, but in the United States, with a mileage exceeding that of the combined state-owned railways of all the world, private management is the exclusive policy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.