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Railway Age 1961 September 11 Coordinated mechanical meetings Allied exhibits Ch
Railway Age Weekly September 11 1961 Vol 151 No 11
CONTENTS
July net continues to show improvement
Railroads earned $20 million in July, up from $10 million in July, 1960. It was the first time in 9 months that earnings exceeded the year-earlier's. Seven-month totals were down p 9
Non-ops make new demands
Eleven non-operating unions have served notice on railroads that they want a 25wage increase effective Oct. 1, plus contract provisions against force reductions p 15
Coordinated mechanical meetings and exhibits
The latest car and locomotive developments are being displayed this week in Chicago. The displays are at the Hotel Sherman and the Illinois Central's 31st street yardp 18
Film shows effect of impact on bearings
Most important lesson from the filmed study may be that flat-back bearings are about 75% as efficient as journal stops in controlling impact-caused displacement p 22
U25Bs are in Union Pacific service
Four of the 2,500-hp General Electric units (said to be the most powerful four-axle diesel-electric) are operating in the UP's high-speed freight servicep 28
Modified tamper works fast
The machine was developed because Portland Terminal engineers sensed a need for a tie tamper designed to surface track through leads and along ladders in terminalsp 33
Educating rate-making officers
Up-to-date cost-finding and rate-making techniques can increase railroad profits. Northwestern University's Transport Center plans a two-week seminar on the subjectp 38
Ultrasonics speeds cleaning
Here's how the Louisville & Nashville is using high-frequency sound waves to loosen dirt and grime from its printing telegraph machinesp 49
$1 billion transit orders seen
That sum-prophesies Thomas C. Gray, engineering chief of Pullman-Standard's passenger car division-will be spent for transit equipment over the next ten yearsp 53
New tank cars for 'space-age' ladings
Several high-capacity tank cars have been developed for handling the super-cold liquids which are being used for this country's rocket fuels and oxidantsp 56
Transport is a public problem
That was a major theme at the annual meeting of the American Society of Traffic and Transportation - but, the society also heard, carriers and shippers can help themselves p 73
REA opens 'key-point' terminal
A new key-point terminal at Ardsley, N.Y. consolidates the operations of five former express terminals in Westchester County. It is the seventh in a series of such terminalsp 82
Overseas market increases for railway suppliers
The market, a Commerce Department spokesman believes, is likely to continue to grow despite the deterrents of currency restrictions and political upheavalsp 84
The Action Page-How do you extrapolate?
An extrapolator takes present trends and projects them into the future. Determination and persistence will scatter the extrapolators of gloom for railroadsp 88
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