This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... well reconsider what has been done in the Turning from the All-Steel Car. building of all-steel cars under an unchallenged hurrah propaganda. upon the part of interests want-ing to sell such cars. Moreover, upon the broad and more philosophic grounds suggested by a writer for this paper, it may be that the car building industry is just round-ing out a cycle and is headed back toward wood, "upon general principles." There has been, as everyone knows, a return to wooden furniture after an era of metal rounding out a cycle of the cabinet Consequently, as the writer to whom we have just referred further says, the change to wood is coming about "more as a result of the cycle movement of sentiment than through.any specific effort to exploit wood and maintain its proper place in car construction" For example, while one can hear in the lumber iudustry an expression of sentiment favoring wooden cars, as a rule this sentiment is actuated purely by loyalty to lumber and is not founded upon a specific study or knowledge of the comparative merits of lumber and metal in car build ing. Only the shippers themselves and the railroad people have been able to realize what are, and the meaning of, the points in the problem, and it is from them that we are getting the reasons and the logical arguments favoring wood-that might have been lDI'S9l1l.9d hitherto by the lumber interests themselves. An instance in point concerns the sales manager for an important coal concern who, in the course of an interview in which the discussion started over the present car shortage and the prospect for a better supply, gave expression to the opinion that the wooden car is coming back. He said, among other things, not only that which we all should know...