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Waterway cargo losses cited slow wartime movement
Wayne C. Taylor of Lake Forest notes a 25 percent drop in commodities moving the Illinois waterway as barges return empty to origins. He argues cargo could travel both directions to relieve rail congestion, citing coal and sulfur barges and oil carriers as examples and describing the Joliet and Lockport locks operations and wartime rail pressures.
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