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Railway Age 1953 Octobe 19 Military rolling stock
Railway Age October 19 1953 Vol 135 No 16
CONTENTS
"Understanding of its position as the biggest shipper and best customer of commercial carriers"-but not as a "protector" of those carriers-was asked by the Department of Defense at last week's annual convention of the National Defense Transportation Association. 11
Railroad employee magazines are "big business," their editors were told by G. M. Crowson, of the IC, at their annual meeting. Published now by some 55 railroads, they have a combined circulation of nearly two million, and readership of about six million, and represent, "conservatively," an annual expenditure of $3.5 million. Moreover, Mr. Crowson said, they have become "infinitely better publications," and "have had more to do with the evolution in our public relations than most railroaders know." 13
"Piggy-back" transportation of truck trailers on railway flat cars is one of the bright spots in the railroads' longterm outlook, says the Katy's Donald V. Fraser. But, he warns, all segments of labor must cooperate-as, indeed, some of the brotherhoods have indicated a willingness to do. 15
Revenues and expenses of railways for August and eight months of 1953 and 1952. 28, 30, 32, 36
RAILWAY AGE FORUM:
Does competition need regulating? Old-style "monopolistic competition" may have, but the kind of competition which exists in transportation today is totally different. 61
A "sag" in the enterprise facade is showing up in the enthusiasm, currently being displayed by some of the Midwest's leading spokesmen for private enterprise, for deepening of Chicago's so-called Sag channel. 62
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