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Railway Age 1961 August 14 Microwave big growth ahead
Railway Age Weekly August 14 1961 Vol 151 No 7
CONTENTS
Railroads' June net best in eight months
Earnings of $43 million equalled the year-ago figure. While the overall picture is still gloomy, a gradual improvement in revenues seems to lie aheadp 9
Wright charges U.S. aids foreign RRs, ignores own
While pouring millions of tax dollars into railroads abroad, says the AAR officer, the U.S. government is letting its own railroads die of neglectp 10
Microwave: Big growth ahead
High capacity, economy and reliability of microwave may produce a six-fold growth-from 8,600 mi to 50,000 mi-in railroad systems in the next 10 to 20 yearsp 16
NH trustees look for new revenues
A quick upsurge in passenger and freight traffic is needed, they warned last week, if the bankrupt road is going to continue to operate p. 18
Disneyland extends monorail
Disneyland's Alweg monorail system-first commercial operation of its type in America -has been tripled in length, and acquired three new four-car trains p.22
Spent atomic fuel moves by rail
Straight rail freight got the call over truck or piggyback movement for shipments of spent fuel elements from a Long Island laboratory to an Idaho reclamation plantp 29
ICC suspends grain-rate cuts
Denial to the public-temporarily at least-of cheaper transport from better railroad technology is one result of ICC suspension of reduced grain rates in the Southeast p.32
The Action Page-Challenge to rail unions
Railway unions could make a great contribution to the industry's prosperity if they would do what the Miners' Union did-and simultaneously reduce their own numberp 38
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