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Railway Age 1955 May 2 Vol 138 No 18 Car shortage C&NW Helping hand for box cars
Railway Age 1955 August 8 Vol 139 No 6
CONTENTS
Congressional hearings on the Cabinet Reportor, more precisely, on bills to implement recommendations of that reporthave been scheduled to begin September 19, before a House subcommittee.9
Car shortage -- actual and potential is a subject which continues to be as hot as the weather. It has occupied the attention of a Senate subcommittee for several weeks; and brought from GN President John Budd a demand for some change in systems of car distribution.10, 11
FORUM"Where were you when the war was on?" Such may be the question asked of suppliers some day in the future, referring to the current "battle" for Cabinet Committee Report legislation. "'Active service" in the Railway Progress Institute and/or Federation for Railway Progress can enhance the efforts of the rail- roads to the benefit of all.41
Pace setter in station design that's what they're calling the Santa Fe's Hutchinson, Kan., station, which features the "suburban" theme.42
How protection was improved at seven crossings on the C&NW at Oshkosh, Wis., with electric gates, flashing-light signals and traffic direction signs, automatically controlled with part-time manual supervision.44
TOFCHelping hand for box cars. Trailer-flat car service on the UP is growing and aiding carload and Icl business.46
Additives make today's fuels better. Many grades which a few years ago would have given unsatisfactory service are now improved by treatment and in extensive use. 48
How to make "3-o'clock" weldsMaking satisfactory welds on the horizontal seam between vertical members has been successfully done in butt welding reinforcements to side sills in assembly of box cars.50
Listen for that 'phone! New York Central employees are being taught to answer calls quickly, courteously, completely, in system-wide campaign to build good will through proper telephone usage.53
BRIEFS
Does the shipper know what kind of cars he wants? In sonic respects he does. In others he knows what kind of cars he doesn't want. The results of a survey conducted by Railway Age, which will appear next week, will illuminate this matter.
Answering commissioners of Division 3 of the ICC, who appealed for shipper cooperation during the current car shortage (Railway Age, July 18, page 11), Lowe P. Siddons, president of the National Industrial Traffic League, told league members and the Associated Traffic Clubs of America that "the next thing could be a service order placing penalty charges in the form of demurrage because of a few recalcitrant shippers failing to promptly load or unload their cars." He said he felt that cooperation, as sought by the commissioners, would "forestall the necessity" of such measures.
A searchlight dwarf signal set the cadence for parades during the Shrine's annual convention in Chicago. The signal was installed by the Illinois Central signal department in a seventh floor window of the railroad's annex building, next to Central Station. The flashing-yellow aspect (55 times per min) was visible along Michigan avenue for about two miles north of the station.
Truck traffic salesmen were urged to go "all out" to oppose any and all parts of the Cabinet Committee report on transportation, at a recent meeting of the American Trucking Associations' Customer Relations Council. One trucker who addressed the group even suggested "a campaign to balance the federal budget with an excise tax on railway equipment and a 6% railroad receipt tax," and that truckers work, at the local level, for "new appraisals" and "adequate taxes" on railroad facilities!
Twenty-five cents an hour "across the board." That's the latest demand now being served upon major carriers by 11 non-operating unions. Asking that the increase become effective September 1, the unions say they are merely "keeping pace" with wage increases in other industries through such a demand.
The bill to liberalize the making of agreed charges by Canadian railroads has been passed by the Canadian Parliament. Passage was in substantially the form in which the bill was first introduced (Railway Age, July 11, page 13), except that truck operators were added to shippers and water carriers as possible complainants against such charges.
The largest public display of modern railroad freight and passenger equipment since the Chicago Railroad Fair will be staged at Sedalia, Mo., for an estimated 500,000 persons attending the Missouri State Fair August 20-28. A diesel locomotive, eight different types of passenger cars and 14 different freight cars will be spotted on fair ground tracks for public inspectioninside and out. Seven roads and the Pullman Company are cooperating in the venture.
Truckers in Southern territory have upped class rates on shipments under 2,000 lb by 20%, subject to maximum increase of 230 per cwt. The truck minimum charge went to $3 per shipment, compared with the rail minimum of $2.30. The L&N immediately got out a letter to its patrons pointing out the lower rail rates. Appended to the letter was a table of sample rates to points served by the railroad with direct car service.
More than one railroad of substantial size is known to be giving close critical scrutiny to its management organization, with an eye to improvement. It doesn't take just able men to run a railroad with maximum efficiency but able men arranged in most effective relationship to each other.
A 5% discount certificate, for use in renting a Hertz car in the Los Angeles area, is now being given with every purchase of a round-trip ticket to Los Angeles from any point on the Santa Fe. Purpose of the move is to provide travelers a complete round-trip discount on all transportation, by matching for car rentals the saving available on a round-trip ticket.
"There are healthy and heartening signs of the New Look in Railroading. . . . Gone is complacency . . . . In the limelight now are revolutionary types of passenger equipment. . . . A bold bid to recapture lost traffic is piggybacking. . . . New use is proposed for old properties and for turning liabilities into revenue-producing assets. . . . There is needed additionally a New Look in Regulation of Transportation."From an address by Walter J. Tuohy, president, Chesapeake & Ohio, to the 32nd Grand Lodge Convention, Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees.
"Do everything except use and pay for the service," seems to be the rule for communities faced with prospective loss of passenger trains. Latest demonstration of this theory comes from Oregon, where a 67-relay "pony express" raced an admittedly slow SP local train between Eugene and Roseburg, as a headline-catching protest against discontinuance of the train. The horses, following a shorter route, lost by only a few minutesbut they didn't have to handle mail and express at 40 stations.
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