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Railway Age 1977 July 25 V178 #14 Making the freight car dollar work harder
Railway Age July 25 1977 Vol 178 No 14
CONTENTS
FEATURES
A strategy for making the freight-car dollar work harderp 22
New cars from old, via purchase/rebuild/lease-backp 28
Dome Railway Services: A big, busy, and growing two-year-oldp 62
How one utility maintains its 997 unit coal train carsp 65
No. 7086's "annual physical": Clues to unit-train maintenance costsp 72
Traffic poll: Shippers see more cars supplied by customersp 76
Railway Age 5th Annual Contract Car Repair Directoryp 41
Fuel saver: A 4-way boon for railroads p 78
NEWS
Sullivan sworn in as FRA chiefp 9
Top-level reshuffle at USRAp 9
C&NW adds another TOFC/COFC "express" p. 9
Chessie bounds backp 9
B&M in the black for two monthsp 9
DT&I gets first welded railp 9
ICG continues track programp 9
Pullman adds to NY contract set-aside p 9
Corridor ties: A split decisionp 10
Research study sees big shift to rail p. 10
Preference-share financing okayedp 11
Evans to succeed Barnett at UPp 11
Hydrogen as a locomotive fuel?p 12
Adams declines to tamper with Conrailp 12
Blackout in NYC: How it hit the railsp 16
Diesel-hydraulic: Subway workhorsep 88
OPINION
INSIDE Freight cars: Costlier, lazierp 3
LINES ON LABOR It's a hot summerp 16
WATCHING WASHINGTON A concrete solutionp 11
DEPARTMENTS
Advertising Sales Officesp 91
Canadian Carloadingsp 92
Carloadingsp 92
Lettersp 82
Marketp 92
New Literaturep 96
100 Years Agop 86
People in the Newsp 84
Piggyback Loadingsp 92
Product Reportp 96
Short and Significantp 9
Suppliersp 84
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