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Railway Age 1957 April 22 Weekly Microwave How new power plants cut costs
Railway Age April 22 1957 Vol 142 No 16
CONTENTS
Microwave baffle shapes up p.9
How rapidly railroads can take advantage of microwave radio's huge capacity for data and communications transmission may be determined at next month's Federal Communications Commission hearings.
Railroads support higher postal rates p.11
The industry actually subsidizes the government by hauling mail for less than it spends to provide the service, an AAR officer points out. Railroads feel, he adds, that the Post Office Department should pay its own way, instead of relying on taxpayers.
How new power plants are cuffing costs p.28
Three modern oil-burning boilers recently installed in the Delaware & Hudson's Colonie, N.Y., diesel shop are saving the road about $180,000 a year.
Now-standardized gondola cars p.30
Standardization of railway freight equipment has taken another big step forward. This week Pullman-Standard revealed its new line of 70-ton PS-5 gondola cars, available in two lengths. Design of the cars is flexible enough to permit adaptation of either to special uses.
At GE progress starts with research p.32
Railroad leaders always seek better equipment or tools, and applied research helps continuously to advance the science of railroading. This study, the sixth in Railway Age's "Contributions to Railway Research" series, tells how the General Electric Company works in the interest of railroads.
RR purchases totaled $1.9 billion last year p.37
The 1956 figure was $246,773,000, or 15.1%, above that of the previous year. Of the increase, about $125 million represented an increase in quantities purchased, and about $112 million was due to higher prices.
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