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Railway Age 1960 August 8 Weekly ow to plan for microwave ACL swaps old offices
Railway Age Weekly August 8 1960 Vol 149 No 6
CONTENTS
High court may get NRAB case P. 9
The Railway Labor Act provision relating to enforcement of Adjustment Board awards is headed for a court test that could have far-reaching effects. The case arose out of Rio Grande's refusal to pay two awards which it holds to be "clearly erroneous."
30,000 Scouts choose the railroads p.14
It took 68 special and 28 regular trains to move Boy Scouts to and from their Fifth National Jamboree at Colorado Springs, Colo. A full year's planning by a special transportation group insured a smooth operation.
Cover Story-ACL moves into new home p.16
It's nearly 500 miles from Wilmington, N. C., Coast Line's old home city, to Jacksonville, Fla., the railroad's new headquarters. But careful planning enabled ACL to move its offices and 950 Coast Line families with a minimum of confusion, and no interruption in normal operations.
Cover Story-How to plan for microwave p.19
Railroads display an increasing interest in microwave systems of communication. Such systems-and the factors which must be weighed when planning to install them-were the subject of a committee report at the recent meeting of the AAR's Communications Section.
Western mergers move closer p.29
ICC examiners' hearings last week developed little or no opposition to two proposed consolidations-C&NW's acquisition of M&StL, and the Soo Line-Wisconsin Central-DSS&A merger. Elsewhere on the merger front, both the NYC and the C&0 have sent representatives to Switzerland to woo the support of Swiss interests holding stock of the B&O, which both carriers are seeking to acquire; and in the South, four railroads have indicated they will oppose the ACL-SAL merger.
RATE DEBATE
Should costs control rates? p.15
Alan White, of the Railway Express Agency, proposes a simplified basis of maximum rates to replace the entire complex class rate structure. Under his plan, says Mr. White, making class rates would become an exercise for the cost accountant. Also, he adds, the commodity rate-maker would come into his own as an expert assayer of the transportation economics of individual commodities.
'Value' rates are still valid p.34
Some reservations about Mr. White's proposal are expressed on this week's Action Page. For example, Mr. White would substitute for class rates a structure based on so-called fully distributed costs. Such costs, however, have the fatal quality of rising when traffic volume falls, which could price railroads out of business. "Value of service" considerations could and should be given some weight in fixing rates.
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