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Railway Age 1953 August 24 Freight rates Patterns or prices
Railway Age August 24 1953 Vol 135 No 8
CONTENTS
New ICC managing director: EF Hamm, Jr. 11
As was indicated on this page May 18, Howard E. Simpson, executive vice-president of the Baltimore & Ohio, will assume the presidency of that company September 1, when present President Roy B. White becomes chairman of the board. 11
Equipment orders, in something of a slump for the summer months, appear to be picking up, with 24 diesels for the Reading, 1,000 freight cars for the Erie and 300 for the Pennsylvania, and six more dome cars for the Santa Fe, all among this week's reports. 14
Among the next big railroad conventions are those of the Roadmasters' and Maintenance of Way Association and the American Railway Bridge & Building Association at Chicago, September 15-17. 15
RAILWAY AGE FORUM
Almost complete freedom to compete, ratewise, with privately owned trucking services has been given to British government owned railways, under recent legislation. How the railways will use their new freedom remains to be seen, but the results could be extremely interesting. 63
Imperfect merchandising marred the railroads' notable operating performance in serving last month's national Boy Scout Jamboree. The opportunity to sell the industry to future customers was, regrettably, not fully utilized. 64
A minute per mile is being saved by the Union Pacific's use of centralized traffic control on a heavy traffic, single track, cut-off line. 65
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