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Railway Age 1960 October 3 Weekly PRR UP lights Ogden rip track
Railway Age Weekly October 3 1960 Vol 149 No 14
CONTENTS
Rail rocket role defined P. 9
In a four-day missile transportation seminar conducted by the Department of Defense at the Army Air Defense Center, Fort Bliss, Texas, rail participants were reminded of rail achievement in rocket transportation - and heard that the potential of surface transportation remains almost wholly untapped.
Cover Story-REA speeds its key-point terminal program p.12
The program is designed to improve express service on a nationwide scale by centralizing terminal operations. The first new terminal, a $125,000 facility, was opened last month. A $500,000 terminal is scheduled to open this month at Garden City, Long Island.
Convair shows rapid-transit car design p.16
The aircraft manufacturer developed the design to meet requirements of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. It is said the car would have twice the effective speed of a conventional interurban car or subway train.
Cover Story-PRR mechanizes property tax accounting p.18
The new procedures, using IBM equipment, will streamline payment of more than 25 different types of taxes. In addition, the new system permits production of many statistics useful to management but not now readily available.
Cover Story-How the UP lights Ogden rip track p.24
Output has jumped an average of five cars per shift since the road installed a new lighting system in its Ogden, Utah, repair yard. The level of illumination is so even that stand lights are no longer needed.
Port agency will bid for H&M p.32
The Port of New York Authority, long committed to a policy of developing highway facilities between New York and New Jersey, now says it is willing under certain conditions to pay $20.5 million for the H&M Railroad - and spend another $49.5 million in rehabilitating the rail transit line.
The Action Page-High switching costs reduce jobs p.38
Terminal costs have a direct bearing on the railroads' ability to compete for traffic. When traffic is driven away by high costs, which mean high rates, railroad employment suffers. Cost control is of vital and parallel interest to both management and labor.
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