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Trains Magazine 1956 July Red Railroads in Korea Arizona Copper haulers 1st Cog
Trains Magazine 1956 July Red Railroads in Korea
62 Pages
Railroad news and editorial comment. By David P. Morgan.6
TRAINS hazards a few predictions on the possible future of the new lightweights.
Railroad news photos..8
New to the railroads: motive power, lightweights, trainferries, lounge cars.
Why we never stopped the Red railroads in Korea.
By Gen. James A. Van Fleet.-----16
A military authority lays it on the line about the railroads and national security.
Arizona copper haulers. Data and photos by Richard Steinheimer.-26
Arizona has a claim to fame in addition to its pleasant weather and scenic spots.
Is the passenger train obsolete? By David P. Morgan.--31
Is there a pill for the railroads' biggest headache - the passenger business?
Steep but slow. By S. S. Worthen.
Ride up the world's first cog railway to where it's below zero over 65 days a year.
On the platform. By K. A. Hunkin.----43
What would George Washington have
done if this problem had confronted him?
"The wrong side of the tracks." By Gus Welty. -44
Take a good look at ragamuffin Pittsburgh. It's a haberdasher's natty dream in '56.
Lima's finest in twilight. By David P. Morgan with photographs by Philip R. Hastings.--50
Prosperous 1955 ran C&O short of diesels, so out came steam to help in a pinch
CENTRAL SIGNS UP WITH AN "X"
NINE years ago Robert R. Young, then chairman of Chesapeake & Ohio, decided to do something positive about his notion that railroad passenger equipment was too high, heavy, slow, and expensive, forthwith asked his research director, Kenneth A. Browne, to see if Talgo could be adapted for U. S. operation. On the morning of May 16, 1956, the press assembled in Cleveland Union Terminal to see and ride Xplorer, the low and light, blue-and-yellow answer to Young's request of 1947.
New York Central's Vice-President of Passenger Sales E. C. Nickerson introduced the lightweight as "this prototype of the future." A cute six-year-old blonde, the engineer's granddaughter, broke a bottle of champagne on the locomotive's pilot beam on the second attempt, then repeated the ritual with a reserve bottle for the cameramen. The unit's turbocharged V12 diesel coughed into life, reporters stepped into coaches standing less than two feet above the rails, and Xplorer eased out for Cincinnati, 260 miles away. A record run was impossible because of track work slow orders en route, but west of Galion, 0., the new streamliner did hit 92 miles per hour.
Pullman-Standard's 392-seat, all-coach X consists of a two-axle center car plus four two-unit, single-axle cars. Sausage-shaped in cross-section, the train weighs just 135 tons empty, thanks to an alloy aluminum superstructure and center section; has a 44-inch center of gravity; and i:, bi-directional. The design incorporates guided axles and a patented self-leveling air-sprung suspension.
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