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Trains Magazine 1962 June Stranger on Cajon So this is steam
Trains Magazine 1962 June
June 1962Volume 22 Number 8
NEWS - -- - -3
NEWS PHOTOS - -8
STEAM NEWS PHOTOS12
STRANGER ON CAJON16
SO THIS IS STEAM! ---18
BADGES OF DISTINCTION - 24
MOTIVE POWER SURVEY - - 26
RAILROAD ART - --31
SPEED SURVEY - --40
WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT? - - 55
A VERY SPECIAL 2-10-0 -56
COVER: The Managing Editor in the right-hand seat of Reading T-1 2100. Photo by Don Wood.
Railway post office 50Running extra 53
Second section51Interchange58
THE MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE CARES
LEST enthusiasm run riot over the transportation message President Kennedy sent to the 87th Congress on April 5, 1962, let us preface any discussion of its virtues and chances with these hard facts: Transportation is the last item in the President's domestic program, not the first; accordingly it reaches Congress in the last session and just before that body adjourns to go home to repair political fences in anticipation of fall elections. Of course, his staff contends that Kennedy was the first President to submit a major message on transport and since it is likely, even by Republican guessing, that he will be in Washington for many years, so will his opinion on transport.
Trouble is, as Arthur Krock observes in the New York Times, the railroads cannot afford to wait for legislative reform processed with simply "deliberate speed."
Nevertheless, the Kennedy message is extraordinarily sound, even - considering the opposition - courageous. Its key provision would free the rails of I.C.C. control over minimum rates on bulk commodities as well as agricultural commodities which now are exempt from regulation when moved by private truck and barge operators. Either that, says the message, or regulate all carriers' rates and equalize the present inequities that way. Another ratemaking provision of the message would be a directive to regulatory agencies to sanction "experimental" freight rates - a move clearly designed to loosen the vise in which the I.C.C. has placed the rails' guaranteed and agreed charges, multiple-car or incentive rates, and other bids to exercise their inherent economy. Still, there is little in the message to excuse the bleating of truck and water carriers which it immediately provoked. Nowhere, for example, did the President specifically refer to the railroad dilemma as such. He did not recommend a Department of Transportation to co-ordinate all Federal transport policies and regulation, as his predecessor urged. Nor did he mention such a cherished rail objective as the right to diversify into nonrail transportation. But he repeated earlier requests for mild user-charges on commercial airlines and inland waterways, and made outsized headlines next day with passenger proposals to drop minimum interstate fare regulation and initiate a long-range program of Federal aid for urban mass transportation. And he neatly stepped into two
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