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Railway Age 1961 August 21 B&O cuts downtime diesels Milwaukee PRR
Railway Age Weekly August 21 1961 Vol 151 No 8
CONTENTS
L&N studies merger with C&EI
The studies were announced after Missouri Pacific disclosed that it has purchased a $1,000,000 "package" of C&EI securities from the estate of a former director of the road p. 8
Carriers to fight 'gray area' trucking
Railroads, legitimate truck operators, freight forwarders and shippers have banded together to form the Committee Against Unauthorized Transportation p 9
Examiner sees threat in Plan I bid
ICC Examiner Dishman would reject a trucker's TOFC plan because, he says, it would permit the applicant to bid for traffic which would shun its all-motor servicesp 10
Operation Speed-Up-PRR upgrades mail service
About 80% of the road's Washington-New York mail volume now moves in solid trains of mail cars. The new set-up has substantially improved passenger-train performancep 12
How the B&O cuts diesel downtime
Out-of-service time for locomotives receiving inspection and repairs at the new Cumberland, Md., diesel shop has been cut 50% by a production line operation p 16
Milwaukee readies new line change
The $18-million project, near Mobridge, S.D. is scheduled to be finished by spring of 1962. It includes a 2,349-ft bridge over the Missouri riverp 18
Los Angeles may revive rail rapid transit
A $192,000,000, 22.7-mile line has been proposed as the first segment of a 150-route-mile system. But financing problems will be hard to overcomep 32
The Action Page-Clear path to RR health
Railroads are not sick, they are being poisoned-by kindly, well-meaning Uncle Sam. The solution is to get the government out of the transportation business p 38
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