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Progressive Railroading 1975 June Family Lines CN ConRail St Louis project
Progressive Railroading 1975 June
Signs of the Times 9
Washington Vignettes 19
Preliminary Plan: Tower of Babel or a Distilling Process?
"Railroading's Railroaders" 23
ROBERT D. TIMPANY, Central of New Jersey GEORGE S. PAUL, Southern Railway
Publisher's Notebook 25
Work Rules First! This 'n That
Railroad Research: Identifying with Tomorrow 29
By John Gratwick, vice president-research and development, Canadian National Railways. Since railroading's early beginnings, traffic, geography and climate have given greater challenges to capacity and reliability. Today, new materials, designs, and methods are re-presenting the challenges, although of different dimension
Family Lines Set New Divisional Standards 37
A special Task Force team "lives" on the division to gather data which, with the computer's help, will develop the new standards
GM Electric Goes to Penn Central 43
A 6,000 hp engine features an unusual device on the EMD lot: a pantograph. The locomotive will be tested on the PC's electrified lines with a 10,000 hp unit to be tried next year
New York Gets New Subway Cars 47
Pullman-Standard sends 750 R-46 cars, the largest order ever, by flatcar and barge. Design improvements above all stress safety
Cover Story: The "Flip-Top" Lid 50
A special lid protects lignite shipments on Milwaukee Road unit trains and facilitates "automatic" loading and unloading operations
St. Louis Streamlines Terminal Operations 54
Eighteen experiments (five now completed) give promise for new highs in efficiency for any terminal and to the benefit of management, labor and the shippers
TexMex Installs TV-Assisted Weighing 59
Coupled-in-motion electronic weighing system also trips closed-circuit TV system to record identifying numbers and permit later processing
New Products - Materials 60
People in the News 64
Meetings 64
Advertisers' Directory 65
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