The report of railway car loadings for the week ending June 30 showed that two new records for all time had been established. During the week, 1,021,770 cars were loadedwhich tops the previous record of 1,018,539 cars established in the week ending October 14, 1920, at the height of the post-war freight movement. The second record is for the successive number of weeks when loadings exceeded 1,000,000 cars; the week ending June 30 is the fourth successive million-car week. During October, 1920, three million-car weeks occurred. Increased loadings were reported in every commodity...
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