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Outlook for the Railroads Poyntz Tyler-The Reference Shelf Vol 32 No 3 Ex-Lib bk
Outlook for the Railroads edited by Poyntz Tyler The Reference Shelf Vol 32 No 3 Ex Library Book
Hard Cover
208 pages
Copyright 1960
CONTENTS
PREFACE 3
I. THE IRON HORSE
Editor's Introduction 7
The Great Iron Skein 8
Holbrook, Stewart H. Early Days 16
Up from the Wood Burners 36
Holbrook, Stewart H. Packages and Pullmans 48
Two Noons on Sunday 68
La Farge, Oliver. When Trains Were Really Trains
The Reporter 73
II. PEOPLE AND PLACES
Editor's Introduction 77
Snyder, John I. Jr. Transportation's Three-Way Snarl
Harper's Magazine 79
Shoemaker, Perry M. What's Happened to the Railroads?
Fortune 90
The Commuter-Problem on Wheels
Time 98
Mackie, David I. The 20-Hour Week on the Railroads
Reader's Digest 109
Mackie, David I. Taxing the Railroads out of Business
Reader's Digest 115
Cook, Fred J. Railroads Versus the Commuter
Nation 120
Barzun, Jacques. Trains and the Mind of Man
Holiday 126
III. THE ROAD AHEAD
Editor's Introduction 133
Conway, John A. The Railroads Fight Back: Diesels, Domes and
Debentures
Newsweek 134
Burck, Gilbert. Freight Wars and Freight Rates
Fortune 141
Piggyback Riding
U.S. News & World Report 154
Bien, William D. The Long Voyage Home
Reader's Digest 158
Wickersham, Edward D. Railroad Labor and Labor Relations
Current History 161
Sullivan, James R. Featherbedding and Make-Work Analysts Journal 169
It's Not Featherbedding
Economic Trends and Outlook 177
Van Fleet, James A. Railroads for War 182
Burck, Gilbert. Four Systems for the Future
Fortune 188
BIBLIOGRAPHY 203
PREFACE
The United States has been called, among other things, "an experiment in transportation." It is an apt description, for the history of the United States is the history of a mobile people marching across a continent and leaving in its wake the most efficient industrial and agricultural economy upon earth. That march and the development that followed were made possible by the almost simultaneous construction of a unique, effective, and nation-wide system of transportation and to gauge the effect of this system upon the North American continent one need only look at the others. South America, Asia, and Africa-all blessed with equal or greater natural resources-have been developed only around the edges, in regions close to the sea. Their great interior resources remain largely untouched because they lack the transportation facilities that have made the United States and southern Canada a modern miracle of production, manufacture, communication, and trade.
Even in our own short history it is a recent miracle, for our colonial ancestors had little need of inland transportation. Huddled along the coast, they could trade with one another over the great tidal rivers, trade with the world over the very sea that had brought them here. Only when they went "over the mountains" into the great central areas and on to the Pacific did they feel the need for transport by land, and to meet that need they fashioned the complex system of communication that we have inherited. First they built the roads, the rough roads that often followed Indian trails and were of more social than economic worth until the internal combustion engine made them into the great webs of concrete we know today. Then they built canals to supplement the natural waterways that had served their fathers. And finally they built the railroads.
It is the railroads that are the subject of this book-the railroads that form such an important part of the great system of roads, rails, pipelines, inland waterways, and airways that constitute the American system of interior transportation. Their history is one of strife and turmoil, of bravery and dedication and will, and their history can only be touched upon here. It is too long and too vital to be compressed within the covers of a single book, just as their future is too clouded with uncertainty and doubt to make it dependent upon one economic factor or upon one course of action. Today there is only one certainty about the future of the railroads and that certainty is that the railroads are here to stay. The laws of physics and gravity have combined to make the flanged wheel on a steel track the most versatile and efficient means of interior transport ever devised and the continued operation of those laws will keep the wheels turning and the tracks in use. What power will drive the wheels, what power or powers will govern the tracks, only the coming years can decide, but by peering into the past and examining the present the writers of this book have been able to give us a glimpse of what the future might hold. To these writers and to their publishers the editor is deeply grateful for permission to use their work.
POYNTZ TYLER April 1960
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