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Railway Age 1953 June 15 Atlantic City convention programs Santa Fe Super perish
Railway Age June 15 1953 Vol 134 No 24
CONTENTS
The Santa Fe's First "Super Perishable" Freight--2,227 miles from Bakersfield to Chicago in 59 hours-completed its initial run June 5. 11
The Campaign Against Crossing Accidentsis producing results-accidents, deaths and injuries in 1952 were all well below 1951. But deaths from such accidents still accounted for more than half of all persons killed in accidents resulting from train operation. 16
Railroad Capital Expenditures may top last year's. Estimates compiled by an ICC bureau put the total for nine months at $998 million, or 0.5 per cent above the figure for the same period of 1952. 17
RAILWAY AGE FORUM
Because the Political Dog-House no longer holds business as its principal tenant, does not mean that railroad men can anticipate any "automatic salvation" from the special and particular difficulties which beset them. The fact is, neither Congress nor Administration have made any very encouraging motions toward constructive transport legislation. 97
There Are Two Degrees of Interest in transportation -vocational and avocational. "Avocational" interests would be better off today if railroads had more vigorously protected their "vocational" interest. 98
What Will Happen Next Week at the Atlantic City conventions-detailed in a composite program of the various meetings. 99
That Hot Boxes Can Be Controlled has been demonstrated by the Norfolk & Western as a result of an intensive and systematic four-year study. 103
Mechanized Mail Handling in the UP's Council Bluffs terminal has given the post office better service, improved train performance, and reduced labor turnover. 109
Graduated Rates for LCL were strongly favored by local freight agents and freight station supervisors who attended the recent meeting of the AAR's Freight Station Section. 114
Side and End Sheets of 3/32-in. USS Cor-Ten steel have given excellent service, for nearly 19 years, in some B&O hopper cars. 116
Railroad Purchases for 1953's first quarter totaled $621 million-just a little less than the total for the first three months of 1952. 118
Steel Tunnel-Liner Plates were used in construction of an unusual elliptical tunnel underpass on the Louisville & Nashville. 120
Federal Tax Relief is a possibility. railroad accounting officers heard at their Chicago convention-where they also discussed mechanization and simplification of paper work, and proper use of statistics. 122
How to Educate New Employees in observance of proper safety practices was the keynote problem which highlighted the 33rd annual meeting of the Safety Section of the AAR 124
Better Service -and how to get it at lower cost-was the topic that occupied the attention of railroad superintendents who attended their association's yearly meeting at Chicago, June 2-4. 127
Dome Cars are well liked by those railroads which use them; passenger traffic officers consider them important traffic stimulators. 132
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