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Railway Age 1960 November 28 Weekly Freight Traffic issue Piggyback
Railway Age Weekly November 28 1960 Vol 149 No 22
CONTENTS
ICC gets New Haven relief plan p. 9
The report of Commissioner Webb and Hearing Examiner Ries proposes, among other things, that the Commission be given the right to find local and state taxes unlawful when they constitute an undue burden on interstate commerce.
Shippers support 'one-plan' TOFC p.17
A single comprehensive plan for piggyback carriage of truck trailers was favored by an almost 3-to-1 majority of respondents to this month's Traffic Poll. The big question is: How can such a plan be devised?
Cover Story-Piggyback volume, revenues hit new peaks p.22
Trailer-on-flat car operations were the brightest spot in the railroads' 1960 traffic picture. Trailers handled, and revenues received for handling them, reached new highs. There are indications that still further gains are in prospect.
Cover Story-Why GSC turns to TOFC p.38
About 10% of General Steel Castings' outbound traffic moves in piggyback service. Piggyback, GSC often finds, is the answer to meeting rates and deliveries offered by competing forms of transport. The company believes its use of TOFC will steadily increase.
New Burlington bridge clears river traffic p.58
The structure crosses the Mississippi at Quincy, Ill. The span over the channel has a clear height of 63 ft above water level, thus eliminating train delays formerly caused by river traffic.
T&P builds special auto ramps p.65
The upsurge in new-automobile traffic has led railroads and railroad suppliers to develop special types of equipment and facilities to handle the traffic. The T&P, for example, has just completed two special terminal facilities at Dallas.
NITL backs managerial rights p.82
The National Industrial Traffic League has endorsed "appropriate legislation" to assure railroad management the right to create or abolish specific jobs. Action was taken at the group's 53rd annual meeting in New York.
The Action Page-TOFC: 'Too much guesswork' p.86
Piggyback traffic and revenues continue to grow. Piggyback, it is obvious, has a great future. It is imperative, however, that it be built as a superstructure upon a foundation of strictly economic pricing of orthodox railroad service in standard equipment.
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