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Railway Age 1960 November 7 Weekly Most modern yard costs CNR $15 million NP
Railway Age Weekly November 7 1960 Vol 149 No 19
CONTENTS
Unions to fight 4-way merger p 9
Unification of GN, NP, CB&Q and SP&S would affect an estimated 8,100 employees-and the brotherhoods have already embarked on what is shaping as a last-ditch battle to block-or at least delay-the merger.
Ike creates 'featherbedding' board p.10
A White House executive order has now implemented the agreement to submit the work-rules dispute to a Presidential commission. President Eisenhower calls the pact "a landmark in the history of labor-management relations."
U.S. railroaders win awards at Rio p.13
The X Pan-American Railway Congress, in Brazil, was climaxed by the announcement of the winners of 16 prizes for papers presented during the sessions.
Rate revision makes progress p.14
The vast rate revision program is aimed at making railroad pricing competitively effective. Some measure of success has already been achieved, but railroads still have a long way to go.
Cover Story-CNR opens $15-million yard p.16
The new automatic retarder classification facility, at Moncton, N.B., was dedicated Nov. 2. Freight cars clear the new yard in about one-fourth the time formerly required at Moncton. The yard is the first of four such facilities the road is building across Canada.
Cover Story-New electric power arrives on PRR p.18
The road is getting 66 4,400-hp electric locomotives from General Electric. The units, for freight service, cost $32,000,000 and will replace 90 older electric locomotives.
Cover Story-How NP 'trainees' get ahead p.23
The road's training program is designed as a base from which employees can climb through the supervisory ranks. The program has two phases: general orientation, and on-the-job training.
'61 annual meetings under scrutiny p.24
AAR President Loomis has asked the association's divisions and sections to consider cancelling next year's sessions unless there is "a significant and overriding reason" for holding them.
Asian railwaymen trade ideas p.32
Delegates to the Second Asian Railway Conference, held in Tokyo, stressed the need for the development of national transport policies that will prevent waste and destructive competition during the current simultaneous development of railways and other modes of transportation in the Near, Middle and Far East.
The Action Page-Don't relax on work rules p.38
If the Presidential commission on "featherbedding" is vested with sufficient stature, its findings will carry considerable weight. The railroads can bolster the commission's prestige by assuring that the five railroad members are the very best that can be mustered.
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