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Railway Age Weekly 1958 May 19 Bold Proposal Special Report Passenger Service
Railway Age Weekly 1958 May 19 Bold Proposal Special Report Passenger Service
94 pages
What's ahead for U.S. firemen? p. 9
The BLF&E settled its brief strike against the CPR mostly on the company's terms. But if U.S. railroads try to follow the CPR's lead in removing firemen from freight and yard diesels, they will have to wage the fight under different ground rules.
Smathers blasts ICC policies p.13
Transportation regulation has reached the point where it might be best to "wipe the book clean and start over again," declares the chairman of the Senate Surface Transportation Subcommittee. A proposed investigation of the transportation situation, he says, will take up the question.
No recession in AAR mechanical research p.54
Lower costs and greater efficiency for railroads is the two-pronged goal of the research program of the AAR's Mechanical Division. The goal will be achieved by improving car and locomotive performance.
Carriers split on rate proposal p.83
At a Transportation Week conference in Boston, spokesmen for rail, water, highway and air carriers agreed that common solutions should be sought for common problems-but they registered disagreement on the question of rate-making.
Special Report:
A BOLD PROPOSAL for Passenger Service
The service has been bumping along in its own peculiar recession for over a decade. Nevertheless, most railroads plan to stay in the passenger business. Here, in one provocative group of articles, is how the industry might change its losing cards to winners.
An industry must experiment to survive ..... p. 20
Railroads are playing a losing game-yet they're the stronger team p. 22
Speed up and cost down the service on one experimental route p. 26
What can be done? p. 28
In the U.S.-No profit in mail p. 35
What's happening to express? p. 37
The Action Page-Let's stop temporizing p. 94
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