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Railway Age 1955 September 19 Eastern RRs rebuild after floods
Railway Age September 19 1955 Vol 139 No 12
CONTENTS
Week at a Glance
Guideposts for becoming successful executives were offered to mechanical officers at last week's Chicago meetings of four railroad associations. 7
"Where can you use atomic power more usefully than in a locomotive?" asks Maryland's Senator Butler. Re told the press last week he expects to draft legislation for the construction of such a locomotive. 11
FORUM: "Union shop"-is it a remedy or a malady? This is not a question to be decided on the basis of whether one does or does not believe in unions. The long-run question is whether it is in the national interest to allow unions to enjoy monopoly powers. 37
Floods hit Eastern roads last month with unprecedented force. This week we describe and picture the extent of the damage and outline the traffic detours set up to cope with the emergency. 38
... But they have come back fighting. Men, machines and money have been poured into the task of rehabilitation, and all main lines affected are now back in service, though slow orders will prevail as work continues. 42
Traditional differentials in rate-making are analyzed in the light of today's conditions by Alan M. White, first-prize winner in the essay contest on that topic conducted by Railway Age and sponsored by Monon President Brown. 46
Pullman Company's new "Slumbercoach" is an arrangement adapted to the standard passenger car body which would provide comfortable, even luxurious, accommodations for 62 daytime passengers and inclosed sleeping space, complete with toilet and lavatory, for 31 overnight travelers. 50
Television and microwave have been combined by the Rock Island in an experimental set-up that enabled officers in the road's LaSalle Street Terminal in Chicago to watch activities on the station platforms at Englewood, six miles distant. 52
Few friends for present controls of tranportation showed up at the recent stimulating meeting in Boston of the American Society of Traffic & Transportation. Urgent need for reducing-but not terminating-railroad regulation was firmly established by able scholars Dearing, Healy and Koontz. Brown Company's Laurence Whittemore said the territorial rate associations need "overhauling," their inflexibility in his opinion having "cost the railroads a great many carloads of freight." 53
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