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Railway Age 1961 September 25 Freight traffic issue Alton & Southern Piggyback
Railway Age Weekly September 25 1961 Vol 151 No 13
CONTENTS
East, Midwest, West: the merger pot boils
Items: PRR's chairman opened a door-and NYC's president shut it-for renewal of PRRNYC talks ; L&N and MoPac sought C&EI ; AC&Y asked to join N&W-NKP-Wabash p 9
How to modernize the Interstate Commerce Act-Part II
Transport regulation needs to be brought up to date, say most respondents to this month's Traffic Poll. Here are some provocative suggestions for doing the job p 13
Why new users like piggyback
They like it because it gives them fast, economical and dependable transportation for their products. And the Seaboard Railroad's piggyback service is a good case in pointp 14
Ballantine brewery opens new transport center
The center is a major element in the New Jersey brewer's two-year, $10-million-plus expansion program. It is served by 5,150 ft of newly built railroad trackp 28
Alton & Southern uses new car-tracing system
Shippers can locate cars routed through the St. Louis gateway on the A&S "simply by telephoning the railroad's nearest sales office," says A&S President R. K. Heinemanp 38
Test results released for diesel-hydraulics
Performance data on the Austrian trials of the new Krauss-Maffei locomotives, said to be the largest single-unit diesel locomotive ever built, are now available p 54
New M/W concepts needed, Chicago convention is told
Some basic changes in the thinking of M/W officers are in order, D&H's J.P. Hiltz, Jr. told the Roadmasters' and B&B conventions in Chicago last weekp 56
Railway editors plan new fight on L&D
ARMEA, at its annual convention, voted to join forces with AAR's Loss and Damage prevention Section in an industry-wide fight to put new life in the claims battle p 60
More job protection proposed
An emergency board has recommended that the principle of job protection be extended to employees adversely affected by technological and organizational changesp 61
Better future seen
The Pacific Coast Shippers Advisory Board heard predictions of a profitable and "exciting" future, if sound principles of business logistics are applied to transportationp 63
The Action Page-What experts prescribe
The National Industrial Traffic League's recent comprehensive statement on proposed transport legislation deserves attention because of its understanding of the problems involved p 66
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