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Railway Age 1953 Octobe 26 Railway Mail serivce on the spot
Railway Age October 26 1953 Vol 135 No 17
CONTENTS
A $75-million air rights project, briefly announced on these pages last week, will result in construction of three big new buildings over land now occupied by trainsheds of Chicago's Union Station. 9
Freight car floors are taking a beating from the increasing loads being handled into and out of cars by lift trucks. How damage may be minimized or avoided has been outlined by the A.A.R.'s Mechanical Division. 10
The brothers' modest (?) demands for higher wages and enlarged "fringe" benefits make interesting reading, in the light of the railroads' declining proportion of the country's total freight traffic. The "non-ops," incidentally, have called in the N.M.B., and are taking a strike vote. 12, 13, 14
Railway mail service is by no means on the way out-but it must be made more efficient and economical, is the view of the Post Office Department's "traffic manager," Assistant Postmaster General John C. Allen. 15
More questions and answers for transportation departments. 18
FORUM: Is there too much eagerness to abandon branch lines that might, by various means, be turned into money-makers? 23
Pictures can promote safety - when they are used as skillfully toward that end as in the Norfolk & Western employees' magazine. 26
Wanted: More passengers! And if proceedings at the recent convention of the American Association of Passenger Traffic Officers are any criterion, they are going out to get them. 28
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