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Trains Magazine 1962 August 4960 5632 JFK New SOO 2-6-0s Mallets
Trains Magazine 1962 August
August 1962Volume 22 Number 10
NEWS - - -3
NEWS PHOTOS- -8
STEAM NEWS PHOTOS -10
20TH CENTURY LIMITED - -16
INSIDE AN ANNUAL REPORT - 36
4960 AND 5632 - - - 44
BRAND-NEW WOODBURNERS 47
COVER: Observation-lounge of No. 25, in Grand Central Terminal, N. Y. Photo by Don Wood.
Railway post office 50Second section 54
Of books and trains 52Running extra 56
Stop, look & listen 54Interchange57
LIKE NO OTHER PRESIDENT
IN just the 18 months since he took his oath of office, President John F. Kennedy has exerted a greater influence upon railroading than his two immediate predecessors did during 1534 cumulative years of White House occupancy. Whether by intent or circumstance, he has now engaged the railroad dilemma on three fronts. First and foremost, he dispatched to the Congress on April 5 a Message on Transportation whose germ lies in the sentence, "I am convinced that less Federal regulation and subsidization is in the long run a prime prerequisite of a healthy intercity transportation network," and whose enactment into law would secure the survival of the industry. In only 16 typewritten pages the message says what is obvious: that we cannot ascertain true transport costs so long as those modes which operate over publicly provided rights of way pay inadequate, if any, user-charges; that we cannot regulate the rates of certain carriers and exempt others; that regulation must not wipe out the inherent strength of one mode in favor of another. No other President has ever sent such a message to Congress. Those controversies which surround the President and divide the electorate over such issues as U. S. Steel's prices, Medicare, urban renewal, and agriculture should and must not be allowed to obscure the incontrovertible evidence of this April 5 message that he has diagnosed the boil of transportation and urgently requested Congress to lance it.
The President, under threat of strike and/or in defense of his hotly debated productivity-oriented, wage policy, has also injected his high office into the railroads' relations with their employees. From Eisenhower he inherited the report of a Presidential commission on work-rules appointed a few days before the election, a report which in general supported the industry's contentions that diesels have made existing crew districts and certain jobs (notably the fireman's) obsolete. Granted, the President accepted the report in a noncommittal manner which denied the industry specific White House endorsement of its recommendations, yet when management-labor talks on it stalemated a few weeks later Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg stepped in and got both sides to accept Federal mediation - "in the national interest," of course. What matters is that the work-rules report is still alive, is still the subject of management-labor negotiation,* and is - in the view of this Administration - a negotiable document. And if the ultimate settlement resembles the
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