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Railway Age Weekly 1959 May 4 What MW Union Plans for 59
Railway Age Weekly 1959 May 4 What MW Union Plans for 59
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Contents
RRs push auto TOFC plans P. 9
Experiments with piggyback movement of loaded automobile transport trailers have proved satisfactory on the Frisco, WP and SP. Frisco tariff would set up such coordinated rail-highway movement yielding a 15-20% reduction per auto for shippers.
Congress passes pension liberalizer p.10
Enactment of the union-backed program for liberalizing the Retirement and Unemployment Insurance Acts will eventually add $200 million a year to the industry's labor bill.
Cover Story-What M/W employees want p.13
Their talks with railroads this year will place emphasis on stabilization of employment and on wages and "other so-called fringe matters." That's what Harold C. Crotty, president of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, tells Railway Age readers in an exclusive interview.
Nine ways to RR health p.17
A just-published Brookings Institution report offers several suggestions for improving the "seriously deteriorated" railroad condition. Government, it says, should stop playing favorites in regulation and subsidization.
Why the C&NW likes Car-Fax p.18
The road's new Car-Fax system-largest commercial transceiver network in the world-provides fast, accurate car tracing data. It also produces vital control and statistical reports for the traffic, operating and accounting departments.
What's ahead for the Alaska? p.27
Hearings are to begin this week in Washington on a bill designed to put the railroad under ICC control. Such control could mean the end of the last stronghold of free competition in U. S. transportation.
First quarter earnings up p.33
Railroad profits so far in 1959 are running well above 1958 recession levels-but below 1957. Here's a sampling of first quarter reports-along with a table showing how the industry's top money-makers ranked last year.
The Action Page-Reduce delays to track gangs p.38
Railroads are making strenuous efforts to reduce time
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