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Railway Age 1992 June Conrail puts quality up front Chicago grand plan
Railway Age 1992 June
92 pages
Contents
SPECIAL SECTION
Financial guide to equipment leasing
Ode to spring (and leasing) 53
Locomotive leasing in transition55
1992 Railcar lessor review56
GATX Capital's John West looks east62
The case for financial advisors64
Looking for Mr. Good Lease68
Macdonald's unique lease restructuring products68
Finance leasing 1992: Big players, big money69
Railcar builders' views on leasing70
Pending GE/Itel fleet merger ushers in new era72
27 Conrail puts quality up front Conrail's Jim Hagen definesContinuous Quality Improvement as a process which starts at the top but must gradually pick up 25,000 recruits.
34A Why Santa Fe switchedTo save money and benefit from new technologies, ATSF contracted with private companies for rail flaw detection.
36 Labor and management: Are times really changing? With neither side yet a clear winner, unions must choose between militancy and moderation, and management must recognize the downside of downsizing.
39 R&D's bottom line: Service reliability AAR's research program seeks to maximize research contributions to the enhancement of rail service reliability.
43 Chicago's $5-billion planFAST, the Chicago region's plan for advanced rail commuting, could be slowed by squabbles over turf and funding.
48 CTA: On time and under budget When CTA's Loop-Midway Southwest Line opens next spring, it will probably be both on time and under budget.
50 Baltimore light rail: Up and running Festive events and free rides mark the formal opening of America's newest system.
Departments
6 Industry Outlook
8 Market Outlook
78 VTS Newsletter
83 100 Years Ago
84 People in the News
85 New Products
86 Advertising Sales
86 Advertisers Index
92 Meetings
Comment
2 Inside
9 Lines on Labor
10 Financially Speaking
12 Watching Washington
42 In Transit
Update
15 BN consolidates repair operations
15 '91 cost of capital found to be 11.6%
15 Special charges wipe out profits
16 Goode to succeed McKinnon at NS
16 Quick payoff in quake monitoring
16 Contract filing not needed, says NITL
18 Southern Pacific prospects brighten
18 SP refinances long-term debt
19 J.B. Hunt and Conrail go transcontinental
Short Lines & Regionals
20 Santa Fe Southern makes a go
20 KCS plans to buy GNA short line
Transit
22 Amtrak ridership declines 5.6%
22 OCTA ridership exceeds 14,000
22 Fischbach & Moore Transit Group formed
24 LA Blue Line keeps going despite riots
24 BART awarded $70 million FTA grant
24 RTA calls to unify Chicago transit agencies
25 Amtrak as ARES test-bed?
Intermodal
26 Intermodal Expo '92: Partnerships and communication
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