Railway Age 1961 April 24 Weekly Freight traffic issue Reefers Piggyback FGE REA
Railway Age Weekly April 24 1961 Vol 150 No 17
CONTENTS
C&O raps compulsory' mergers
If voluntary consolidation plans are scrapped in favor of "grandiose" compulsory schemes, the result could be nationalization, warns C&O Vice President Owen Clarke P. 9
NYC expands 'Sleepercoach' fleet
Budd will convert 10 of the road's roomette cars into low-cost sleepers at a cost of approximately $1,000,000. This will bring NYC's "Sleepercoach" fleet to 14 units p.10
Rate cuts would boost traffic
Reductions in rates of about 20% would induce shippers to increase their loads per car by 50%, according to this month's Traffic Poll p.13
What's behind REA's world-wide expansion?
Anthony F. Arpaia, vice president, international services, tells, in this exclusive interview, how REA's new overseas service helps U.S. shippers p.14
FGE recaptures business with reefer trailers, TOFC
Fruit Growers Express, first private car line to become a major trailer owner, anticipates a rapid growth in its piggyback business p.32
Transit: Whose responsibility?
An RSMA seminar in Chicago concluded that all units of government-local, state and federal-must share the responsibility for planning and financing mass transportation .... p.43
RR administrative agency proposed
A plan put forward by A.L.M. Wiggins would create a new agency within the Department of Commerce empowered to promote "sound programs" for the industry p.48
New container system tested
Developed by Steadman Industries, Ltd., the low-cost, 20-ft units are side-loaded onto flat cars equipped with turntables p.49
The Action Page-It is up to the shippers
Only shippers can prevent further deterioration of the reliability and economy of our transport system, and of railroads in particular p.54
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