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Trains Magazine 1968 December What do these hoses do? RDC's All Diesel Issue
Trains Magazine 1968 December
December 1968Volume 29 Number 2
NEWS --3
PROFESSIONAL ICONOCLAST -5
DIESEL NEWS PHOTOS - -8
RAILROAD NEWS PHOTOS - 10 SALESMAN'S PEREGRINATIONS 12
TIT FOR TAT----22
HOW EMD BUILDS DIESELS - 24
THOSE CAPITALIZED DIESELS -31
WHAT BECAME OF THE RDC? - 38
LASH 'EM UP! ----44
MIGHTY LAK A MALLET - - 52
Railway post office 54Second section 60
Of books and trains 58Running extra 64
Interchange 64
COVER: Rear of Espee F unit 6443 in Los Angeles, Richard Steinheimer; PRSL RDC's, Budd Company.
COULD MR. LANG BE WRONG?
IN testimony before a Congressional subcommittee on proposed bills that would tighten up passenger train-off regulation, DOT's Federal Railroad Administrator A. Scheffer Lang took a dim view of the rails' passenger prospects, not only here but abroad [page 4, October TRAINS]. He declared, "As highways improve, as disposable income and thus automobile ownership rise, and as commercial air service comes into its own, the railroad passenger train will lose out. It has happened in this country; it is very clearly beginning to happen, despite the high quality of rail service available, in all of the developed countries abroad!" The italics and the exclamation mark were Lang's own.
"If so," rebutted Anthony Haswell, Executive Director of the National Association of Railroad Passengers, "the rest of the world hasn't got the message." He capsuled rail passenger progress in Japan, England, France, Germany, Italy, and Canada (CN), and concluded, "Surely all these countries would be mighty foolish to expend scarce talent and resources on expanding and improving a mode of transportation that is bound to lose out to its competitors. We just don't believe that everyone is out of step but Uncle Sam. The Administrator is apparently attempting to cover up for our failures by taking a gratuitous slap at the achievements of others in improving their rail transportation - achievements which are envied by many Americans."
Well, just who is right . . . Lang or Haswell? TRAINS sent Lang's statement to G. Freeman Allen, Editor of our British contemporary, Modern Railways, and Allen made this reply:
Average monthly passenger carryings up by 53 per cent in the first year of electric working, up by another 121/2 per cent in the second, and up by 8 per cent more to date in the third. That's the record so far of British Rail's revivified day-long, regular-interval express service over the 1883/4 miles between London and Manchester. Comparable percentages for the associated London-Liverpool (1931/2 miles) operation are little inferior at 51, 71/2, and 3 per cent. If this, in U. S. Federal Railroad Administrator A. Scheffer Lang's lexicon, is "losing out" in the passenger business, then Britain's domestic airlines would like a piece of the wooden spoon. After the first year of BR's intensified, accelerated electric service between London and Manchester, British European Airways conceded a 20 per cent loss of traffic and substituted 63-seat Viscounts for 137-seat Vanguards on several off-peak flights. Two recent market surveys have come up with credible evidence that rail has cornered as much as
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