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Railway Age 1953 September 14 Harriman safety award winner Speedrouter No weevil
Railway Age September 14 1953 Vol 135 No 11 34 pages
CONTENTS
Air carriage of 3-cent first-class mail between New York and Chicago and Washington and Chicago is to be tried
out by the Post Office Department on a one-year "experimental" basis, but "with a view toward expanding the service in the future."9
Net income for 1953's first seven months reached $490 million-$142 million more than the $348 million net reported in the corresponding part of 1952. Higher gross, coupled with only moderately higher expenses, brought about the rise. 13
"Speedrouter" is what C&EI traffic people call their new freight routing guide, a 120-page book to simplify their customers' routine tariff work. They say it is an effective sales tool. 17
FORUM: Car shortages are relatively small now, as compared to the almost astronomical proportions they reached in the peak loading seasons of the war years, but in this competitive age the important point about car shortages is that they aren't just figures, they are lost opportunities to serve shippers. 21
Questions & Answers, a page specially tailored to the needs of men in the transportation department. 22
Hydraulic rams have been developed on one Eastern railroad to make it possible for 5-man gangs to do a track-lining job that used to require a dozen employees. 23
Human interest is the editorial principle that guides Virginia Tanner in putting together the 63,000-circulation monthly employee magazine of the B&O. 24
Weevils commit suicide in C&NW box cars which have glass fiber blankets installed in the end walls for pest control and protection of metal sheathing. 26
Construction costs in railroad work, as computed by the I.C.C. Bureau of Valuation, have pushed the average annual index number for 1952 to an all-time high. 34
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