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Terminal facilities are instrumentalities

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From 224 U.S. 383 - United States of America v. Terminal Railroad Association of St Louis · 1912Most cited · 606 citing opinions

We are not unmindful of the essential difference between terminal systems properly so described and railroad transportation companies. The first are but instrumentalities which assist the latter in the transfer of traffic between different lines, and in the collection and distribution of traffic. They are a modern evolution in the doing of railroad business, and are of the greatest public utility. They, under proper conditions, do not restrain, but promote, commerce.