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Railway Age Weekly 1959 January 5 Keeping special cars on the go Case for politc
Railway Age Weekly January 5, 1959
CONTENTS
ICC warns of small car fleet p. 8
Dangerous situation could result, says Commission's 72nd annual report. Eleven legislative recommendations for 1959 include three new proposals.
How special cars build business p.18
Railroads are more and more tailoring their service to meet the special needs of industry. The tailoring is done with special equipment. Here's how two railroads use special cars to satisfy their customers' needs.
CPR employees help cut costs p.26
Workers at the road's Angus locomotive shops acted to develop and build a machine that reclaims worn diesel gears. The machine, built of parts from obsolete machine tools, paid for itself in six months.
Three Western roads cut fares p.28
Rock Island is slashing round-trip first class fares by 22 per cent. Burlington and Katy are following along on routes competitive with the RI.
CNR planning passenger experiments p.29
President Donald Gordon has named a special committee to institute pricing and service reforms in an effort to bolster passenger traffic.
Shippers back new paint rate p.30
Two companies say they'll increase rail shipments substantially if suspended "incentive" tariff wins the ICC's approval.
The Action Page-Stop creeping nationalization-Now! p.34
Nobody dislikes socialism any more than railroaders do. Railroads, however, face the practical problem of surviving and thriving in a socialistic environment. The only way they can do it is to insist on being paid for every service they perform -for communities and government, as well as individual customers.
Short and Significant
Further withdrawals from Railway Express . . .
appear to have been averted-at least temporarily. Following the New York Central's announcement that it would withdraw from its Express contract effective Jan. 1, 1960, it was reported that other major carriers had agreed to take no action until April 30. Meantime, western roads can be expected to continue their efforts to prevent other major eastern carriers from pulling out of REA.
Railway labor unions will take a dim view . . .
of any moratorium agreement in negotiations this year. For labor to approve any such pact, one union chief commented, the moratorium would have to be limited strictly to general rates of pay. Brotherhood leaders have objected strenuously to interpretations of the present moratorium as covering job stabilization demands.
A 5.9 per cent increase in carloadings. . .
in the first quarter of 1959, compared with the same period in 1958, is predicted by the 13 Regional Shippers Advisory Boards.
The BLF&E hasn't quit yet . . .
in its fight to return the firemen to freight and yard service on Canadian Pacific. The union has asked for appointment of a conciliation board in a contract dispute which now seems to involve chiefly the fireman issue. In view of the BLF&E's retreat on CPR last summer, some observers find it hard to see what the union hopes to accomplish-except, perhaps, to maintain a position in the face of Canadian National and (probably) U.S. road attempts to follow CPRs lead.
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