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Railway Age 1980 October 27 Piggyback: The competitive pressures mount
Railway Age October 27 1980 Vol 181 No 20
CONTENTS
FEATURES
24 Piggyback: The competitive pressures mountTrucking deregulation has produced a rash of rate-cutting by traffic-hungry motor carriers that could do short-term damage to the railroads' carefully structured pricing/service strategies. But no long-term losses are foreseen. Meanwhile, piggyback is doing unexpectedly well in a recessionary year.
33 Conrail's Ed Jordan: The meaning of deregulationJordan no longer sees deregulation as the door to prosperity-but it is the necessary first step. he says, to solving Conrail's basic problem: matching plant and personnel to the not-so-bright traffic potential in the Northeast.
40 The Mexican paperwork jungleMore and more carloads are moving from the U.S. toward Mexico, but at the border they get snarled in red tape. A herculean effort is being made to speed the flow.
46 The little yard that couldUnion Pacific's scale model of its Hinkle Yard proved such a valuable training aid that it has been rebuilt for a similar job at Bailey West.
48 Using a club to maintain qualityPortec's "Quality Club," now with nearly 2,000 members, has worked so well in improving product quality that some corporate giants are looking at it.
NEWS
4 Short and Significant
10 Deregulation: What happens next?
10 C&NW: Closer to Powder River
16 Rail growth seen beginning in 1981
16 Southern sees fast merger track
16 Carmen's union goes hunting
18 Key to more coal use is rail capacity
61 The Railroad Market
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