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Railway Age 1961 November 20 Milw lowers tunnel floors for high wide loads DAMAG
Railway Age Weekly November 20 1961 Vol 151 No 21 SEE PHOTOS - damage . Some pages have spotting, not stuck together, rusty staples, has damage along the folded edge
CONTENTS
Radio dispatching methods questioned
The Railway Labor Executives' Association says some railroads are dispatching trains by radio and telephone without taking adequate safety measuresP 9
Are RRs lagging in technology?
Progress has been made in key areas, but the rate of technological change in the industry may be too slow, an RSMA meeting was told in Chicago last weekp 11
Milwaukee lowers tunnel floors for oversized loads
The project, brainchild of the road's traffic officers, permits "high-and-wide" loads to be handled over the Milwaukee's transcontinental lines to the Pacific northwestp 14
How the Wabash uses its diesel spot-shop
The so-called progressive maintenance technique, being adopted by more and more railroads, is used to handle 205 diesel units at the Decatur, Ill., shopp 18
Automated transit car unveiled by GE
In introducing the demonstrator unit, GE predicted that "at least a dozen" metropolitan areas will be using automated rapid transit within ten yearsp 24
Rate 'me-tooism' decried
Selective rate-cutting was vigorously defended by the D&RGW's traffic vice president in an address before the Central Western Shippers Board at Denver p.30
Railroads advised: 'Unite on one goal'
C&NW Chairman Heineman thinks the industry should assign priority to a single legislative aim. His suggestion : abolition of minimum rate regulation p.32
The Action Page-Samson gets his hair cut
The railroads' strength lies in low line-haul costs. Denying them the right to reflect their economy in competitive rates is comparable to Delilah's cutting Samson's hairp 38
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