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Railway Age 1956 August 27 Vol 141 No 9 Paint of fixed structures Rolling stock
Railway Age 1956 August Vol 141 No 9
CONTENTS
There must be public support . . . in the way of tax abatement or some other device to relieve the railroads' financial burden if commutation services are to be put on a practical basis.
For sale or lease . . .406 New York Central passenger stationsanother step to try to trim this road's passenger operation losses.
"Health ratings" of dining cars . . .are to be initiated by the Public Health Service next year for a two-year trial.
FORUM: Unity in a "PR" program . . .depends on a clear appreciation of the essential distinction between public relations and legislative relations. The former is an exercise in mass communications; a process of educating the millions whose individual beliefs go to make up public opinion. The latter is a matter of personal contacts commonly called lobbyingwith the objective of getting specific laws enacted.
Mechanical reefers by the hundreds . . . are now on the rails. Fruit Growers Express and associated lines have more than 1,000 in service. The most recent additions to that fleet have generating and refrigerating equipment in a compartment at one end of the car, insulated from the load. Protection can be adjusted for frozen foods or for fresh fruits or vegetables.
$17 million for paint . . .is the railroads' average yearly outlay. That's for materialsseveral times that much is spent for their application. Results? Protection of property; safer working conditions; lower operating and maintenance costs; a more pleasing "front" to show the public. For example
Paint on fixed structures . . .serves these purposes despite the difficulty of getting it properly applied and despite the severe conditions to which it very often is exposed.
Paint on rolling stock . . . is being used in new ways, giving much more individuality to each railroad's locomotives and carseven the prosaic box carwithout sacrifice of usefulness.
COMING: Next week . . . Results of the New York Central's tests of residual distillate fuel for diesel locomotives.
BRIEFS
GN electric operation . . .of 73 miles of main line across the Cascade range, including the 7.79-mile Cascade tunnel, ended August 1. The new tunnel ventilation system, which permits diesel operation straight through, will be described soon in Railway Age.
Interesting marriage . . .crops up in the piggyback field. Riss & Co., which has a $90,000,000 damage suit against the railroads pending in federal court, is among five motor carriers which will team up with the Pennsylvania and Katy in a new t-o-f-c service between three southwestern cities and Philadelphia, Pa.Kearney, N.J. The ICC granted the necessary fourth-section
relief last week.
Enough iron ore is stockpiled . . .at furnace sites to keep steel production going for some time despite a seamen's strike that has halted many Great Lakes ore boats and forced a curtailment of Minnesota mining. Railroads may pick up "around-the-Lakes" ore traffic normally moved via water if strike lasts long enough to deplete stockpiles. Meanwhile, rail shipments of steel are approaching "normal."
Wage boost and 6 paid holidays . . . are among recommendations of a special board investigating a dispute between the Canadian Pacific and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Wages would be increased 7% retroactive to April 1, with another 5% due June 1, 1957. Trainmen in turnaround serviceup to a 30-mile radiuswould receive added $2 a day as of September 1.
DEPARTMENTS
Financial 12
Forum 23
Freight Car Loadings 9
New Equipment 9
Organizations 12
Questions and Answers 16
Railroading After Hours 26
Railway Market 9
Railway Officers 13
Supply Trade 13
What's News in Products 31
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