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Trains Magazine 1968 August West Trenton 1938 OVer a bridge
Trains Magazine 1968 August
August 1968Volume 28 Number 10
NEWS -3
PROFESSIONAL ICONOCLAST5
STEAM NEWS PHOTOS --8
RAILROAD NEWS PHOTOS -10
SALESMAN'S PEREGRINATIONS 15
OVER A BRIDGE ---18
GO AHEAD AND BACK UP -20
LONG LIVE STEAM-40
WEST TRENTON .. . IN 1938 -44
Railway post office 50Second section 55
Of books and trains 54Running extra 56
Interchange 57
COVER: From the Baldwin negative collection of H. L. Broadbelt, a portrait of SP 4-8-8-2 4102
OKAY... SOME GOOD THINGS
LAST MONTH an exasperated TRAINS reader in Philadelphia suggested that our columnist John G. Knei-ling devote "just one article to what [the railroads] are doing right." Well, by their very nature iconoclasts tend to ignore the valid and expose the invalid, no doubt on grounds that performance is its own advertisement. Besides, Mr. K is occupied with other research for us, and we are hesitant to disturb him because we remain convinced that his net effect is affirmative. For instance, an old and loyal friend of the magazine wrote recently, "I like your TRAINS very much, though I get a little tired of Kneiling. I think. But the railroads have been pretty persistent in being backward. The box car - why, they didn't even realize how impractical the box car was for grain. I didn't realize that either!"
But back to the point, if we may be allowed to field the request to Kneiling. What are the rails doing right?
COMMUTERS: Commutation could be called the gut issue of the rail passenger business today. Commuters constitute the only growing segment of the passenger market. They travel short distances but in great numbers (commuters account for 1 of every 4 passenger-miles, although they number almost half the total passengers carried); and at considerable expense to stockholders, the rails are carrying commuters in and out of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco. True, the nation's largest rail commuter hauler -- Long Island - is now a purely Government function, but the LIRR exists today only because parent Pennsy endured the deficits (in all but three years between 1933
and 1949) of an offspring that wasn't allowed to raise its fares from 1918 to 1947. Chicago's roads even managed to largely air-condition, dies elize, bi-level, and push-pull their commuter services out of their own pockets. So now, when Government at all levels appears to be having second thoughts about whipping a lame commuter iron horse, the rails still have
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