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Railway Age Weekly 1960 January 25 Freight traffic issue REA Featherbedding
Railway Age Weekly January 25, 1960
CONTENTS
City to 'buy' rail service p. 9
Philadelphia has set up a non-profit corporation to contract for essential rail commuter service. Both the Pennsylvania and Reading have hailed the plan as a stride toward preservation of commuter trains. Mayor Dilworth hopes city payments to the railroads will soon be augmented by federal aid.
What shippers say about featherbedding p.13
"Modernization" of railroad working rules is supported almost unanimously by respondents to this month's Traffic Poll. Reasonable changes in the rules, they think, would benefit shippers by improving efficiency or reducing the cost of railroad service.
Cover Story-REA gets set for new growth p.16
William B. Johnson, president of the express company, is a man in a hurry. His immediate job is to show the REA-owning railroads that the agency can become a profitable operation. In this exclusive interview, Mr. Johnson tells Railway Age readers why he and his associates are optimistic.
Seaway: Still a question mark p.41
Eastern railroads lost a chunk of traffic to the new waterway during its initial season-but it's impossible to say how much, or to measure the potential future threat. Meanwhile, more rate adjustments are due as eastern roads step up efforts to protect their traffic.
The Action Page-Millions for better service p.46
The so-called railroad problem is one of inadequate supply of new capital. Some railroads, of course, have been able to do better than the average in keeping their facilities up-to-date. Steps must be taken to permit railroads as a whole to have readily available supplies of capital matching those of the industry's well-to-do members.
Short and Significant
Five new Trailer Train members . . . .
are expected to join the piggyback car-leasing pool early in February after action approving the move has been taken by their individual boards. The new roads will extend Trailer Train membership in the Southwestern, Central Western, Northwestern and Pocahontas districts. If precedents are followed, a substantial increase in the TTX car fleet is also in the works.
Photo-electric eyes watch for high loads . . .
on eastbound New York Central freight trains as they near Buffalo, N.Y. Interruption of the light beam by a high-loaded car actuates an alarm bell and light which alerts a towerman. He can then take action to have the train stopped before the high-loaded car collides with a low bridge or overhead highway viaduct. Successful operation of these eyes has led the NYC to consider a program of installing them at 20 or more locations on the eastern district.
Wage talks with the Engineers . . .
appeared headed for a climax last week, as the BLE warned it would seek to break off mediation and spread a strike ballot unless the carriers made a "satisfactory" offer by Friday, Jan. 22. Earlier, union sources indicated they'd received a "feeler"-involving a 3% increase effective next Jan. 1. Management quickly and categorically denied making an offer. Theodore Short, speaking for the carrier conference committees, declared that "neither the union nor the railroad committees have as yet made an offer on wages."
Missouri Pacific may take a new look at merger . . .
if a preliminary report on consolidation with Chicago & Eastern Illinois develops positive findings. MP, which decided against merger with Texas & Pacific last summer, is also studying merger possibilities involving other roads. But the C&EI situation is the only one where talks between two managements have begun. Indications are the preliminary report will be ready for study 'by mid-February.
Track car and diversification bills ..
will come up for Congressional hearings next month. The Senate's surface transportation subcommittee has scheduled a, Feb. 25 hearing on the track car bill, which would give the ICC power to prescribe rules for operation of track motor cars. The House's subcommittee on transportation and aeronautics has scheduled a Feb. 2 hearing on several diversification bills, which include proposals to liberalize present restrictions on operation of one form of transport by another, but also proposals to tighten such restrictions.
Santa Fe's tri-level auto flat car . . .
left Wixom, Mich., last Wednesday on its initial move. The shipment : eight Lincoln and Thunderbird cars, stacked three deep on the 53I/2-ft flat. The car, equipped with a "super-shock-control" underframe, is the prototype of an 88-ft car which will carry 12 standard-size autos or 15 compact cars. Use of a universal tie-down system on the cars will permit shipment of any mix of autos, regardless of size, weight or axle position.
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