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Railway Age Weekly 1958 June 2 Can you name your Successor Alco builds for futur
Railway Age Weekly 1958 June 2 Can you name your Successor
42 pages
Smathers bill goes to Senate P. 9
Transportation Act of 1958 reported favorably from Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. AAR President Loomis "pleased" with bill. Truckers won't oppose rate proposal.
Alco builds for the future p.13
Tangible evidence of the company's faith in American railroads. That's how Alco Chairman Egbert describes the new locomotive production facilities at Schenectady, N.Y. The first phase of a $4,000,000 program to streamline production has been completed.
C&EI: Ready when the upturn comes p.16
The road's president, Dave Mathews, doesn't believe in trying to make do with the old ways. If a better way can be found to do things, the C&EI aims to find it. Here's how the road provides for the future.
Can you name your successor? p.18
Competent supervisors can't simply be picked off the vine when they're needed. The main problem is how to find the proper men and get them started up the ladder. That is one of the superintendent's major responsibilities.
Timken opens new bearing plant p.25
The company's new $7,000,000 facility is another vote of confidence in American railroads. The recently opened production line has a nominal capacity of 160,000 bearings a year.
How to upgrade an old train shed p.26
The North Western did it with a tested formula. Materials used included aluminum paint, translucent plastic skylights and fluorescent lights. The job was part of the road's long-range program to refurbish its 47-year-old Chicago station.
Grain traffic: A bumper year? p.3
Western railroads have an interested eye on a grain movement boom that seems to be in the making. If it materializes, it could make the slump in other forms of traffic a lot more bearable.
Railroader's report from Russia-1 p.38
From behind the Iron Curtain, Railway Age Publisher Robert G. Lewis reports on a subway that is as artistic as it is efficient-and boards a crack Soviet train for a trip to Moscow along a rail line laid out by Tsar Nicholas I himself.
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