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Railway Age 1954 January 4 Weekly Why so many empty car miles?
Railway Age January 4 1954 Vol 136 No 1
CONTENTS
How 1951 traffic paid overhead costs is revealed in a recent study by an I.C.C. bureau. 9
The "non-ops' " demand for larger "fringe benefits" has gone to a Presidential Emergency Board. Wage negotiations with other employee groups were generally recessed for the holidays. 9
FORUM: Getting the subsidies out of suburban service -to put the cost of such service where it properly belongs-might be accomplished by "contracts" between municipalities and railroads. 13
Why so many empty car miles? Answers to the November 23 car selection "quiz" confirm an opinion that many railroad men, while observant of car service rules, may not be equally alert to the desirability of avoiding empty mileage. The answer to the quiz, and comment concerning it, appear, respectively, on pages 14 and 18
A way to prolong car-floor life is to resurface old wood floors with a nailable plastic compound.20
Adjustable catenary structures have been developed in Great Britain. 22
Hard chrome plating is used by the N&W to prolong life and reduce maintenance of certain machine, locomotive and car parts. 23
BRIEFS
Confirming the observations in our December 14 issue (page 121) about expansion of trans-Lake Michigan gateway operations, the Chesapeake & Ohio announced on December 22 that it is "testing" improved services through its Wisconsin lake ports and the Niagara Frontier gateway to and from eastern points. After experience is gained with freight movement through the various improved facilities, a more definite statement will be made as to overall running time improvements, the road said.
India will buy 100 locomotives and 5,000 freight cars in the next few months. The United States will provide $20 million of "economic aid" to help pay for the new rolling stock. Manufacturers from "most countries of the free world" are expected to bid for this business.
Passenger revenue continued to drop in the first nine months of 1953. Coach revenue was off 3.6 per cent from 1952. Parlor and sleeping car revenue was down 15.1 per cent.
Traffic fell even more. Coach passenger-miles were off 4.1 per cent compared with 1952. Sleeping and parlor car business slipped by 15.7 per cent.
Locomotive engineers "will not settle their just request for differentials paced according to skill, in nickels and dimes," Guy L. Brown, grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, said in a year-end statement in which he described 1953 as "the most profitable year in modern American railroading."
A spokesman for the Greyhound Corporation confides that of all the recent developments in the railroad passenger field, he looks upon the new design of the Talgo train by American Car & Foundry "with the greatest fear." Citing the train's low gross weight per passenger seat, he said, "We would breathe much easier if we felt certain nobody would buy them."
"Like other industries which have built up their capacity to produce, the railroads will have to do some hard selling to fully utilize their facilities.... There will be greater emphasis on improving service and adjusting prices to stimulate sales and meet competition. Continued efforts will be made to produce additional operating economies. . . ."-From a year-end statement by Paul W. Johnston, president, Erie.
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