Railroads Crash Construction Boom.

The article reports on the construction projects of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (CB&Q) and the Union Pacific Railroad in response to the demands of the U.S. government's defense mobilization program. CB&Q is improving its line to accommodate faster trains, including a plan to bypass the bottleneck between Kansas City and Brooklyn, Missouri with a new line between Missouri City and Tina. The incentive of the Union Pacific's construction program, on the other hand, is the McNary Dam which is expected to back up waters of the Columbia River.