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Trains Magazine 1967 December All diesel issue Horse show haymaker Baldwin
Trains Magazine 1967 December
December 1967Volume 28 Number 2
NEWS - - -3
PROFESSIONAL ICONOCLAST -5
RAILROAD NEWS PHOTOS8
A TRIPLE TREAT ---18
ON BEHALF OF BALDWIN- 22
OUR LOCOMOTIVE SHOWROOM 31
CINCINNATI CURIOSITIES-44
Railway post office 49Second section 54
Of books and trains 51Running extra 56
Interchange 57
COVER: Horse Shoe action, J. J. Young Jr.; Baldwin 6001, H. L. Broadbelt Collection.
AN ASSESSMENT OF 1967
THE Book of Ecclesiastes tells us that there is "a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance." It would appear an appropriate season now, just before the band strikes up "Auld Lang Syne," to ruminate over what sort of a time 1967 has been for railroading, whether the year has been one to cause those concerned with the industry to weep or to dance.
Admittedly, causes for sadness surround us. For instead of having an airline strike fill their passenger trains, as last year, the rails were confronted in 1967 with Ford's walkout emptying their auto-rack cars. Last year, rail freight rates declined for the eighth consecutive year; this year they climbed. Innovation was not conspicuous by its presence, for the unit coal trains, auto-rack cars, piggybackers, second-generation diesels, et al., that industry execs parade out at the drop of a press release were scarcely born yesterday; at least, DOT's A. Scheffer Lang [page 15] isn't impressed.
For a spell early in the year it began to look as if management-labor relations might be on the upswing, what with several amicable if expensive wage settlements; but the shoperaft unions' strike blew that illusion, and now a Federal judge says that the rails must hire firemen for any new jobs.
Merger maneuverings in 1967 resembled the Cuban missile crisis before Khrushchev took his weapons home. All sorts of eyeball-to-eyeball confrontations took place, raising more commotion than solutions. Seaboard Coast Line became a reality on July 1, true, but that one had been almost seven years in the making. Meanwhile, the case of Who-Gets-the-Rock-Island remains so hot that the road's own Chairman finds that his varied, repeated
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