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Railway Age 1953 September 21 UP Gas Turbine DAMAGE
Railway Age September 21 1953 Vol 135 No 12 FEELS RIPPLED STAINING from water damage
CONTENTS
Deregulation of railroads, and of transportation generally, was warmly endorsed by two high ranking speakers, one representing industry and one government, at the American Society of Traffic and Transportation's Pittsburgh conference. But, one of them warned, transportation "must not hide behind the skirts of government regulation" to avoid self-improvement. 11
The Atlantic cut-off - the Rock Island's biggest single improvement project--was officially opened, with appropriate festivities, September 14. 11
"Limousine service" can't be provided by a transportation industry obliged to get along on "wheelbarrow income," says new Interstate Commerce Commissioner Owen F. Clarke. At the same time, Mr. Clarke believes,. transportation should provide the best service possible with what funds it has available.15
Railroad capital outlays for 1953 are now estimated at $11/4 billion. An I.C.C. breakdown indicates this would include more than was spent in 1952 for road facilities, but less for equipment. 16
"Let's take the train" was the subject of a major promotional effort undertaken jointly by the Santa Fe and a large Kansas City department store. 19
RAILWAY AGE FORUM:
"Further deterioration" in government treatment of railroads is about the only possible capsule comment on the Post Office Department's decision to move some first-class mail by air. It is further evidence of the disparity between railroads' cost factors and their regulation-strait-jacketed rate structure. 85
"Nothing can replace intelligent personal salesmanship" in winning and holding railroad traffic, in the opinion of some of the country's top industrial traffic managers. 86
A practical approach to selection of proper rail section was outlined in a paper prepared for the VIII Pan American Railway Congress. 87
Fairbanks-Morse "Train Masters" were tried out in seven types of service on seven eastern railroads during summer months. 90
Smaller per diem payments have come to be an important by-product of the Canadian Pacific's use of International Business Machine punch cards for car accounting. 92
What's the future of the gas-turbine? Increasing experience in actual service on the Union Pacific is rapidly providing the answer. 94
Juvenile trespassing on railroad property has been cut 75 per cent, with other incidental benefits as well, by the Baltimore & Ohio's constant, carefully planned program of reaching elementary school children. 96
Even convention-popular Chicago must have found last week a little busier than normal, with seven railroad and two railroad-supply groups holding simultaneous meetings: Coordinated Mechanical Associations 98
Roadmasters' and Maintenance of Way and Bridge and Building Associations 106
"If railroads were free" they could and would take many now-impossible steps to give shippers better service, says Monon President Warren Brown. 102
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