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Trains Magazine 1959 December The railroad that likes passengers
Trains Magazine 1959 December
December 1959 Volume 20 Number 2
NEWS - - -5
NEWS PHOTOS - -8
STEAM NEWS PHOTOS -10
MAGIC MOMENT -20
THE RAILROAD IMAGE -22
RUSSIAN NOTEBOOK27
NP LIKES PASSENGERS -32
WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT? - 41 RAILROAD TO RAPID TRANSIT 42
PHOTO SECTION-44
A MILE A MINUTE -56
Railway post office 58Running extra 66
Second section63Interchange66
COVER: Northern Pacific montage: center photo, Richard Steinheimer; ethers, W. D. Middleton
THREE MEN VOTED "YEA"
THIS department mostly "waxes critical" and "views with alarm," as is the wont of editorialists everywhere. So it is good for the soul this Christmas season to print what we consider well deserved praise. We refer specifically to Messrs. Walter J. Tuohy, Alfred E. Perlman, and James M. Symes, presidents respectively of Chesapeake & Ohio, New York Central, and Pennsylvania. These men recently had an excellent opportunity to procrastinate over and der ail some fundamental railroad progress. As custodians of corporate interests, they could have defended such obstructionism in pious, even documented language.
For down in the West Virginia coal country Norfolk & Western was earnestly seeking to realize a cherished ambition: merger with parallel Virginian. In the event of N&W+VGN Chesapeake & Ohio stood to lose its No. 1 rank as an originator of coal traffic and gain an even stronger competitor in an enlarged N&W. At Deepwater Bridge, W. Va., New York Central interchanges coal with VGN that is competitive with N&W - hauled fuel. Moreover, both C&O and NYC were blocked in their own effort to consolidate in 1947 by the testimony of VGN people. So here was a wonderful chance to view with alarm and, incidentally, settle an old grudge. The fact that Pennsy controls N&W was not calculated to place Central in a compromising mood, either.
Over in the East both Central and Pennsylvania could have agreed between themselves to disagree with the proposed Erie-Lackawanna combine. Pennsy has a stock interest in two roads which face traffic dislocation (Lehigh Valley and Wabash) ; Central stands to gain a stronger trunk-line rival.
Both Nickel Plate and Wabash possess due cause for questioning Erie-Lackawanna. They are aware that at the vital Buffalo gateway the merger would leave them with a single friendly Eastern connection for uncommitted tonnage not prior routed by the shipper. NKP alone could drop 3.5 million dollars' worth of interchange a year. It is only reasonable for railroads in such circumstances to protest.
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