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Trains Magazine 1967 October Will the atom empty coal cars? These diesels have a
Trains Magazine 1967 October
October 1967Volume 27 Number 12
NEWS - --3
PROFESSIONAL ICONOCLAST -5
RAILROAD NEWS PHOTOS -8
EVERYTHING IS SO DIFFERENT18
HOW TO MERGE MOTIVE POWER 20 PULLMAN PROLIFICACY - - 24
PHOTO SECTION- - - 29
COAL: GOING, GOING, GONE? 37 WARTIME AND RAIL WRECKS 40
NOS. 28 AND 29- - - 43
11 HOURS WITH A 111-YEAR-OLD 44
Railway post office 50Running extra 55
Second section54Interchange57
COVER: General backhead, Charles Castner; hoppers, Robert Hale; ACL; SAL, David Salter.
WHO NEEDS OLD IRON HORSE?
Milwaukee Journal: Fred L. Tonne.
ALL of a sudden, in Milwaukee as elsewhere, there was nothing for all these diesels to do.
ANYONE who can read knows how the old iron horse has been put out to pasture by the speed of the jet, the flexibility of the truck, the convenience of the car, and the economy of the barge and the pipeline. We all know that widows' portfolios contain no rail securities, that the troop train is an anachronism, that the Railway Post Office is a dodo, that people who admit they travel by train get strange looks at cocktail parties, that nobody knows or cares anymore how to get to Union Station.
Old iron horse is swaybacked, arthritic, blind glue-bait - everybody knows that.
Everybody except these guys, as it turns out:
"We are faced with a national crisis."-President Lyndon B. Johnson.
"It just jams our terminals and makes it almost impossible to get anything out." - Milwaukee trucker.
"The largest corporation in the world, General Motors, said it would be forced to shut down its assembly lines in less than a week." - United Press International dispatch.
"Every minute and every hour . . . will create ever increasing damage to our economic well-being and America's national security." - President Lyndon B. Johnson.
What was bugging everyone was the Sunday, July 16, 1967, walkout by six railroad shoperaft unions in a wage dispute. So rapidly did the paralysis spread that the Postmaster General was soon pleading with us not to mail even first-class letters unless they were of an emergency nature. In a single day, Tuesday, July 18, the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the President passed and signed legislation ending the strike, an extraordinary track record for the 472
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