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Railway Age 1954 August 9 WeeklyFiguring diesel tonnage ratings Track partol car
Railway Age August 9 1954 Vol 137 No 6
CONTENTS
Dual rates will end in the East under a proposal-now formally placed on the docket-forecast in Railway Age in June. This "biggest single step" yet taken toward tariff simplification will effect integration of exceptions to No. 28300 tariffs. 11
Department of Defense transportation activities are under study by a "Hoover Commission" subcommittee headed by Lackawanna President Shoemaker. 12
Convention plans are complete for the Chicago meetings, beginning September 13, of the Roadmasters' and Bridge & Building Associations. 13
Earnings of Class I roads were down in June as compared with the same month of 1953, but the unfavorable percentage was somewhat less for the month than for the first half of 1954 as compared with the same period last year. 13
FORUM: A prescription for the railroads is offered by PRR President Symes, not as a palliative to reduce the suffering of starvation, but as a tonic to stimulate the restoration of good health. 51
With gates at three highway grade crossings and barriers at four, the GM&O reduced operating costs and increased safety for trains, as well as for automobiles and pedestrians, in one main-line Illinois town of 2,000. 52
How to rate diesel locomotives over complex profiles, taking into account the various factors affecting practical train tonnage limits, is developed into a graphic technique by P. R. Mueller of the B&O. 54
A trucker's idea for piggyback-one which in effect would make a container out of the body of the semi-trailer-is proposed by John Bridge of Canadian Rail Van Systems. 59
Cars that ride road or rails-twenty-five of them-are saving the New Haven $120,000 annually by facilitating the job of patrolling the line formerly performed by trackwalkers and men on motor and hand cars. 62
Painting freight cars automatically in a traveling spray booth, the Great Northern's St. Cloud shops have done away with hand spraying for sides and roofs, doing the job faster and with less paint. 66
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