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Railway Age Weekly 1960 March 7 New Yard for less NYC prefab track
Railway Age Weekly March 7, 1960
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RRs need speed, rates, balance p. 9
Shippers want "a combination of speed and price," says U.S. Freight's Morris Forgash. To meet the challenge, in his opinion, railroads must provide still faster freight service; extend incentive rates to larger-than-carload quantities; and develop a better traffic balance.
Cover Story-Prefab track cuts yard costs p.17
Here's how automation and continuous-flow assembly-line techniques help the New York Central make big savings in its new yard trackwork. The techniques have been applied to scrapping unneeded track in one area and building track in another.
This reefer costs less to run p.27
More effective insulation and elimination of some expensive electrical equipment have lowered the car's costs. The mechanical refrigerator car, now in experimental service, was built at the Burlington's Havelock, Neb., shop.
Highway tanker curbs urged p.36
Demands for rigid restrictions on the highway movement of inflammable and explosive cargoes have followed last week's fiery train-truck collision in California.
Track-car 'compromise' hit p.38
Labor leaders have offered an "alleged cure for the featherbedding inherent" in the track-car bill-but the amendment, says the AAR, would be "utterly ineffective."
The Action Page-How close are you to the colleges? p.42
Some railroads have put their academic contacts on an adequately comprehensive and continuing basis. A lot of them have not. It's too important an area to be dealt with catch as catch can.
Short and Significant
An optimistic outlook on commuter aid . . .
possibilities has brought about a shift in New Haven plans on new cars. President George Alpert last week told the Connecticut Public Utilities Commission that he thinks the road is likely to win the commuter subsidies it says it needs to continue suburban operation (RA, Jan. 11, p. 9). As a result, Mr. Alpert, reversing the position he took in January, now says that his road will order 50 new air-conditioned commuter cars under New York Governor Rockefeller's commuter-aid plan (which calls on the Port of New York Authority to arrange part of the financing and lease up to 100 cars to the NH and an additional 270 to the NYC and LIRR).
The BLE wage case arbitration panel . . .
will include three repeaters from the 1954 board which rejected the union's demand-including the two neutral members, Archibald Cox of Harvard Law School and Richard A. Lester of Princeton University. D. S. Beattie, director of research and statistics for the brotherhood, will also serve on the board, as he did six years ago. Second BLE member of the board will be R. E. Davidson, first assistant grand chief. Carrier representatives will be J. E. Wolfe, vice president, Burlington, and Guy W. Knight, director-labor relations, PRR.
Seaway freight rates may be higher . . .
during the 1960 navigation season, scheduled to begin about April 15. Increase, between Lake ports and Europe, is currently predicted to run about 10% on general cargo; $1 per ton, initially, on export grain.
President Eisenhower created an emergency board . . .
while on tour in South America last week to head off a threatened strike by the ORC&B against the New York Central. This will delay the strike at least 60 days. At issue is the servicing of sleeping cars. The railroad took these over from Pullman Co. almost two years ago and assigned `train conductors to sleeping car duties. The union objects to additional duties on train conductors, seeks to have only Pullman conductors assigned to sleeping cars.
An attempt to bankrupt passenger railroads . . .
in New Jersey has been charged against the state's PUC by DL&W President P. M. Shoemaker. In an open letter to PUC President R. L. Fusco, Mr. Shoemaker asserted that the state agency's annual report for 1959 contained "omissions and misstatements" tending to obscure "long delays in deciding most important railroad cases, failure to hold joint hearings, with the ICC on common interest and common purpose fare increases . . . no decision at all on curtailments of unessential service," which, Mr. Shoemaker said, added up to "the board's policy of taking all possible steps to bankrupt the passenger-carrying railroads."
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