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Railway Age 1957 September 16 Metal buildings fin new fields
Railway Age 1957 September 16
Passenger loss must be controlled p. 9
Cold economic facts indicate that all New York Central services will suffer if the passenger deficit is not brought under control, says Ernest C. Nickerson, the road's vice-president--passenger sales and service. "We must adjust our passenger services to changing conditions . . . to what the public really needs and is willing to pay for."
PRR to drop transcontinental cars p.13
A decline in patronage of the road's sleeping car service to the Pacific coast has led to a decision to discontinue the service when the fall passenger timetables go into effect next month.
Canadian railroads ask higher rates p.13
The Canadian lines' latest request for an increase in freight rates, hearings on which will open September 24, asks that the remaining 4% in their 1956 application for a 15% boost be raised to 10%. The roads last year were granted two increases of 7% and 4% as measures of "interim relief," pending final determination of the 15% application.
'Prefabs' are practical p.31
And that's why railroads are using more of them all the time. With the variety of standardized shapes and accessories now on the market, a railroad's regular forces can put together while you wait just about any kind of a building management can ask for-from watchmen's shanties to photogenic passenger stations.
Cotton Belt main line is all CTC-here's why p.37
Adequate capacity for today's volume of high-speed freight traffic was secured on single track by equipping the entire line with CTC, keeping trains moving safely by signal indication.
Teamwork is the key to ASF's research p.41
With a test train and two research and developnient laboratories, this railway supply manufacturer has put into practice its research philosophy-whatever is good for the railway industry is good for those who supply it.
The Action Page-Rate-making theory must be changedp.82
If railroads are to remain in private ownership, the ICC policy in regulating rates will have to be modified. The initiative in getting a practical principle of rate-making adopted is clearly up to the railroads. The time to start is now.
Short and Significant
'Glued' rail joints are under test . . .
on a 1-mile section of the Delaware & Hudson, near Cobleskill,
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