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Railway Age 1982 June 28 Grain by unit train ICC forces keep busy Centralia Padu
Railway Age June 28 1982 Vol 183 No 12
CONTENTS
FEATURES
17 Grain by unit train
Especially well suited to movement of grain for export, unit trains give the shipper faster service and the carrier greatly improved car utilization.
20 An Iowa co-op makes history.
The first annual grain-car teardown took place recently near Des Moines, sponsored by AGRI Industries, an Iowa cooperative with its own fleet of 3,162 cars.
23 ICG shops: Centralia, Paducah keep rolling
Centralia is building 1,500 hopper cars. Paducah, meanwhile, is midway through a program converting old hulks into 2,000-hp non-turbocharged road locomotives.
37 Equipment testing: A major role for Miner
Test skills developed by Miner for its own bread and butter line of draft gears are available to other companies-and about 50% of tests are now done on contract.
42 MoPac computer controls 26,000-item inventory
The railroad's Purchasing and Materials Management Department, a long-time computer user, finds the system increasingly valuable now that it's on a real-time basis.
51 Shippers on deregulation: The jury's still out
Without denying that the Staggers Act has brought about many service and rate improvements, some shippers still yearn for the "protection" of the old days.
NEWS
4 Short and Significant
8 Amtrak board picks Claytor
8 Transit time cut in ship-rail test
8 $800 billion for highways?
10 Coal's future: "Strong, bright"
10 NW plans new intermodal facility
12 Lewis to push five-cent fuel tax
12 MIT schedules transport seminars
13 Track Train Dynamics Newsletter
59 The Railroad Market
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