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Railway Age 1956 August 13 Vol 141 No 7 New Type Solid Bearing .P&WV C&O
Railway Age 1956 August 13 Vol 141 No 7
CONTENTS
Doing something about the weather . . .
. . . more and more railroads are making use of air-conditioning in yard and office buildings as well as in areas where the air cooling-conscious public is dealt with. Added employee efficiency and morale, and public good will, are the benefits obtained.. . . p.7
"Utterly inadequate" ...
. . . is the term used by the NIT League to describe the railroads' car program in a protest filed with the ICC against the proposed demurrage rate increases. . . . p.8
FORUM: Profitable passenger business . . .
. . . is more likely to come about when more attention is devoted to expense reduction and less to expense allocation. The forthcoming ICC investigation into the problem can be helpful if out of it comes a better public understanding of the facts of life, so far as the common carrier movement of people is concerned. This is the time to discover how the passenger business can be made to pay.. . . p.37
Contributions to railroad research ...
. . . is the general topic which Railway Age is developing in a series of case histories showing how far off the beam is the idea that too many people have that the railroad industry is backward in technological research. First article in the series is . . .
. . . Casting for the future . . .
. . . in which the research activities of National Malleable & Steel Castings Co. are described.. . . p.38
Either way on either track .
. . . is the way the C&O dispatcher runs trains between Columbus and Toledo, thereby keeping heavy tonnage freights moving while allowing mechanized track gangs plenty of leeway for uninterrupted work.. . . p.43
BRIEFS
Dividend cut ...
. . . is one outcome of the steel strike, so far as stockholders of the Pittsburgh & West Virginia are concerned. Meanwhile, pace-setters in the steel industry, free of government price regulation, already have announced a price increase calculated to offset the higher labor costs growing out of the strike settlement.
Green report forms . . .
. . . which passengers fill out are the means the New York Central is using to poll travelers on their impressions of the service, comfort and performance of the "Aerotrain" on its runs between Chicago and Cleveland.
April's capital expenditures . . .
. . . of the Class I railroads totaled $108 million, up 73.6% from April 1955's $62.3 million. Outlays for equipment, at $77.5 million, were up 88.9%, and expenditures for road, at $30.5 million, were up 43.9%. The four-months total for road and equipment was $405.8 million, up 72.1% from the $235.8 million reported for 1955's first four months.
Chicago's Union Station . . .
. . . has been mentioned as one of four possible sites for a new 31,000-ft exposition hall. The plan would utilize air rights over the train shed and station concourse.
$43 million in local . . .
. .. real estate taxes were paid last year by the 15 railroads which operate in New York State. Heaviest local tax payment of the railroads went to New York City, where the bill was over $20.5 million.
Hosts to the press . . .
. . . will be San Francisco's three terminal railroads during the Republican National Convention there August 20-23. Southern Pacific, Santa Fe and Western Pacific are co-sponsoring a "hospitality lounge" for newsmen at the Cow Palace. Roads at Chicago are sponsors of a similar facility at the International Amphitheater during the Democratic Convention in that city this week.
New Type Solid Bearing . . .
. . . 400 freight cars will soon be equipped with a 360-deg aluminum sleeve bearing made by Allison Division of General Motors. Cost is in the neighborhood of $5 per bearing while oil consumption in one test was a quart in 60,000 miles.
DEPARTMENTS
Financial 13
Forum 37
Freight Car Loadings 9
New Equipment 9
Questions and Answers 16
Railroading After Hours 44
Railway Market 9
Railway Officers 13
Revenues and Expenses 45
What's New in Products 35
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