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Trains Magazine 1967 July Born at Baldwin Steam in Europe Side rods but no cylin
Trains Magazine 1967 July
July 1967Volume 27 Number 9
NEWS - -3
PROFESSIONAL ICONOCLAST -5
RAILROAD NEWS PHOTOS8
STEAM IN EUROPE '67 -12
BORN AT BALDWIN . . . -18
GO WEST, MIDDLE-AGED MAN 20
SIDE RODS BUT NO CYLINDERS 26
PHOTO SECTION - - - 29
THE TRAINS OF THAILAND - 38
CHANGE AT THE JUNCTION - 44
Railway post office 50Second section 53
Of books and trains 52Running extra 56
Interchange 57
COVER: Spit-'n'-polish State Railways of Thailand 4-6-2 837 in a William D. Middleton shot.
NEEDED: A BETTER IDEA
FORD claims it has a better idea for building automobiles. What the railroads and their public need is a better idea for building mergers. Don't take our word for it - listen to the parties directly involved:
"We are concerned because the complexity of the present merger picture imposes considerable burden upon a company like the Soo. The I.C.C. has been proceeding on the basis of a separation of the merger proposals submitted to it, even though the proposals are, in fact, interrelated. The hypotheses upon which any particular proposal is based are likely to shift. The cost and time involved in keeping track of the mass of mergers are tremendous. It is conceivable that shippers could lose much in the merger debate because of the difficulty of participating effectively in the proceedings."- President Leonard H. Murray, Soo Line.
"Practically every railroad in the West is represented in these [proposed UP-RI merged. proceedings. Up to the present time at least, there has been little success in composing their different positions or simplifying the issues before the I.C.C. A distressingly large part of the enormous record made so far has little to do with the merits or demerits of the merger but reflects the maneuvers of those who believe they stand to gain by delay and inaction."-Chairman and President Jervis Langdon Jr., Rock Island.
"Many of the railroads appear to be merely maximizing their own special positions in the projected merger transactions without any real regard for the public interest or the interest of other railroads and the vital services that such roads perform. . . . Unless some of the parties do an abrupt about-face from their present positions, they may be in for a rude awakening." - Chairman William H. Tucker, Interstate Commerce Commission.
What's everyone so unhappy about? Virtually everyone except organized rail labor agrees that mergers - which the Association of American Railroads defines as "a basic instrument for streamlining an industry whose principal contours were laid down in the last century" - are good and are necessary. Again, everyone has certainly had sufficient time to think through the subject and arrive at rational, workable conclusions, for the modern rail merger movement dates back to 1955 when Louisville & Nashville asked for permission to absorb its corporate child, Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis.
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