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Railway Age Weekly 1959 November 30 Freight Traffic Issue Piggyback SOO MKT
Railway Age Weekly 1959 November 30 Freight Traffic Issue
90 Pages
Contents
Ops ponder counterdemands p. 9
A meeting last week of leaders of the five operating brotherhoods brought forth a carefully worded statement that disclosed little of union plans. Indications were, though, that the brotherhoods would agree on drastic counterdemands to rail proposals.
Good TOFC service wins traffic p.13
Shippers are making greater and greater use of piggyback for traffic which, without it, would not move by rail. Replies to this month's Traffic Poll show how TOFC is paying off for railroads.
Cover Story - New sales look on the Katy p.20
"We're going to do all in our power to get business and to handle it with maximum efficiency," says M-K-T President Deramus. Frank J. Heyling, the road's sales and service vice president, is the man who is going to implement that promise. Here's what he has done-and what he plans.
Centralized checking cuts costs p.28
The system is a new, more efficient way to check LCL merchandise, and other shipments in freighthouses. It benefits shippers and railroads alike.
Easing Section 4 is proposed p.32
Examiner Charles W. Bennett has recommended to the Interstate Commerce Commission that rail proposals for relief from the long-and-short-haul and aggregate-of-intermediates provisions of the IC Act's Section 4 be adopted.
Piggyback keeps on growing p.40
The growth is so rapid that no one can tell where piggyback will be 10 years from now, says J. P. Newell, board chairman of Trailer Train Co. This high-spot round-up of TOFC developments in the past 12 months-and probabilities for the future-indicates why the general railroad view reflects optimism and enthusiasm.
Piggyback pays its own wayp.55
There is definite agreement that TOFC transportation not only pays its own way but also produces in the process traffic which is new to railroads.
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