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Railway Age 1953 October 5 Red Ball freight contol
Railway Age October 5 1953 Vol 135 No 14
CONTENTS
Shipper-carrier cooperation- and its value to both-received heavy emphasis at the annual meeting of the Associated Traffic Clubs. 11
The passenger deficit, and proposed diversion of some first-class mail from rail to air, occupied much of the attention of state utility commissioners in their recent annual meeting at New York. 12
Railroad men find it hard to follow the "logic" of the I.C.C.'s action extending Service Order No. 866 while Order No. 865 was permitted to expire September 30. No. 865 was the penalty-demurrage order applicable against shippers, and No. 866 is the operating-rules order applicable against railroads. Both were designed to expedite movement of cars. They looked like an inseparable pair which would stay in or go out only together. 16
Electric diesel-electric locomotives are performing successfully under difficult operating conditions in Chilean mining service. 19
RAILWAY AGE FORUM:
Urban traffic congestion could be alleviated, if not eliminated, by more public attention to mass transportation and less to individual transportation. 57
A new experiment in "community relations" is now under way in four key cities in territory covered by the Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference. 58
The Rock Island's Atlantic cut-off, opened last month, is one of the longest line changes to be completed in recent years. 59
Centralized machine car accounting, recently put into use on the Santa Fe, will benefit the railroad's own traffic and transportation departments and further im-
prove its "Red Ball Information Service" to shippers.
62, 67, 69, 71
Mechanized mail handling facilities, just completed at St. Louis Union Station, will permit faster and more economical performance of one of the country's biggest mail handling jobs. 72
Spanish Talgo trains, on the basis of three years' experience, have proved safe, reliable and sufficiently stable to permit important schedule reductions. 77
"To get truckers and railroads working together" --and "out of each other's hair"-is one of the avowed objectives of the General Motors Corporation's new plan-worked out over the past two years-for railway transportation of highway semi-trailers, which was unveiled last week at LaGrange, Ill. GM, its executives emphasized, has no particular desire to go into the car-building business, as such, but stands ready to build its new trailer-transport car for any railroads interested in purchasing it. 80, 82
Fourteen railroads have received Harriman medals or certificates from the American Museum of Safety for their 1952 safety records. 84
Economics and electronics came in for the lion's share of attention at last week's St. Louis meeting of the A.A.R.'s Signal Section. 86
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