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Railway Age Weekly 1960 March 21 New PRR Ore Cars Mileage rate for tank cars
Railway Age Weekly March 21, 1960
CONTENTS
Soo Line, WC, DSS&A OK merger P. 9
Directors of the three roads have approved unification. Next step : stockholder approval to be sought May 17. Annual savings of $1,260,000 are anticipated.
ERPC: 'Accentuate the positive' p.14
At a recent meeting in New York, officers of the organization's 25 community relations committees were given plenty of ammunition to back up their 1960 public relations program.
Cover Story-PRR ore cars are tailor-made p.20
The cars cost less, and carry more payload, than conventional hopper cars on trucks of the same capacity. Maintenance costs are expected to be about 25% lower. The Pennsylvania just completed 1,000 of the cars at its Samuel Rea shop.
Why the Illinois Central's PTM is optimistic p.26
The road's 1959 passenger revenues topped those of the previous year by more than $1,000,000. Passenger Traffic Manager Emmit Holmes attributes this happy situation to the IC policy of providing the best service possible.
Mueller Report: 78 remedies p.31
Twenty of the 78 recommendations that have come out of the Commerce Department's transport study would require legislation-but early action by Congress appears to be unlikely. The recommended approach is "gradualism, with adequate time to adapt to change..."
Engineers hear about problems, solutions p.38
Plain talk by top management men on challenges facing engineering and maintenance-of-way officers highlighted the annual convention of the American Railway Engineering Association in Chicago last week.
The Action Page-What mileage rates for tank cars?p.42
There's a project in the works to increase the mileage rate railroads pay on privately owned tank cars. It may be, as an expedient, that such a change is desirable. A higher rate, however, might constitute overpayment for smaller and older cars while falling short of being compensatory for new, larger cars.
Short and Significant
Double-track, vertical-lift span . . .
billed as the largest ever to be floated into place, is now installed on PRR's Delaire Bridge across the Delaware River at Philadelphia. Tides, which average 7 ft in the area, were harnessed to raise the 2,670-ton structure into position as well as to remove the present 533-ft span it replaces. During the three-day span project completed March 18, 11 daily passenger trains were diverted to bus connections at Camden, while 10 daily freights were detoured to the PRR main line bridge at Trenton.
Diversification into other forms of transport . . .
was cited last week by U. S. Freight President Morris For-gash as the reason his company is buying a 25% interest in American Export Lines, Inc. If the purchase is approved by the Federal Maritime Board (which regulates U.S. Freight's foreign subsidiary as well as American Export as a steamship line receiving subsidies), Mr. Forgash is reported to be in line to become American Export's board chairman.
Spread of a strike ballot . . .
was being considered by the ORC&B last week, after the apparent failure of efforts to reach a standby agreement which would base a settlement on the results of arbitration in the BLE wage case. Both unions are demanding a 12% increase, but the ORC&B is also asking for an additional 1.6% and it was this factor that soured the deal, according to the union. SUNA, also pushing a 12% demand, has already polled its members on strike action.
Negligence on the part of the truck driver . . .
was blamed by a coroner's jury in the collision of Santa Fe's "San Francisco Chief" and a loaded petroleum tanker at a grade crossing near Bakersfield, Calif., March 1. The nine-man panel heard testimony from 12 witnesses before reaching a decision, in its probe of the accident which killed 14.
A special public relations meeting . . .
to consider labor-management relations will be held by the Railroad Public Relations Association March 27-30 at Hotel Maraine-on-the-Lake, Highland Park, Ill. Various phases of the subject will be covered by public relations and labor relations specialists outside the industry as well as by railroad officers. The latter will include President Daniel P. Loomis of the AAR ; the association's vice president in charge of public relations, J. Handly Wright; James Oram, vice president of the Pennsylvania; and Duncan E. I. MacNeill, vice president of the Canadian Pacific.
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