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Railway Age 1961 October 2 Automatic train operation Problems Possibilities SP C
Railway Age Weekly October 2 1961 Vol 151 No 14
CONTENTS
NARUC workshops study rail problems
Transportation regulators from state commissions met last week in the 73rd annual convention of the National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissionersp 9
C&S forces use more trucks
The increased use of trucks by signal and communications departments has been helped by the nation's road building programs and the postwar boom in CTC installationsp 11
Automatic train operation
Equipment is available today to run crewless trains-but there are problems. Most important are labor union attitudes, and the question of where the money will come fromp 12
New SP cabooses stress safety and utility
The 200 bay-window cars, designed by the Mechanical Department in collaboration with the Operating and Safety Departments, were built by Pacific Car & Foundryp 14
Special train helps defense effort
The 10-car train houses electronic tracking equipment to provide a movable target site for testing the efficiency of Strategic Air Command bombing missions p 19
New products report
Here are brief descriptions of 14 new and improved devices of special interest to railroad signaling and communications engineersp 24
New L&NE will be CNJ line
The ICC last week gave the L&NE permission to abandon all but 40 miles of line, sell the rest to CNJ. In an exclusive interview, L&NE President Green tells why p 26
Kennedy asks sound benefits systems
In a statement accompanying signing of the bill to liberalize the railroad retirement system, President Kennedy asked Congress to improve the systems' actuarial basisp 32
The Action Page-Tull costs,' anti-RR trap
Enforcing by law the doctrine of "fully distributed costs" would destroy the jobs of railroaders, the investments of railroad owners, and railroad servicep 38
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