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Modern Railroads 1961 December V16 #12 L&N new surfacing concept
Modern Railroads 1961 December Vol 16 No 12
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL Turning Point on Depreciation Rail Technology and the Coal Pipeline 51
Publisher's Notebook: Modernize Freight Selling, Too 106
Inside Track: The Sound of Music 39
SPECIAL FEATURE The Revolution in Refrigerated Transport by Charles W. Donnelly
Part IReefer Revolution 53
Shopping centerssupermarketsfrozen foods: they've created new needs and changed the patterns of perishable shipping
Part IIMechanical ReefersOr Trailers? 58
New types of equipmentplus new rates, better servicekeynote railroads' drive for more perishable traffic
ARTICLESFrisco Captures Sales Award 63
Sales training program wins Golden Freight Car Award
L&N Tries New Surfacing Concept by Edward T. Myers 64
Railroad works hand in hand with supplier to create new, multiple-purpose tamping-surfacing machine
SP Finds New Uses for Automatic Phone Dialing 71
Crew dispatchers are spared telephone dialing drudgery in making 400 calls a day with automatic dialing system
Planning Eases NS Move75
NS moves headquarters personnel and equipment from Norfolk to Raleigh over week end
New Bangor and Aroostook Shed Protects Perishable Crops 79
Perishables are kept under cover during car loading
B&O Launches Massive Car Repair Project83
Planning, computers and interdepartmental cooperation combined in B&O attack on bad order car problem
FEATURES
MR Highlights the News 11
Letters to Modern Railroads 17
Report from Washington 24
Modern Railroads' Charts: The Railroad Business 29
Operating Statistics, Sept. '60-'61 87
Brevities 93
Report from Europe 95
People 97
Worth Noting101
New Products103
Advertisers' Index 104
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