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Railway Age Weekly 1962 December 10 Work rules Basic Oxygen rails Baggage carts
Railway Age Weekly December 10, 1962
CONTENTS
Work rules: Ops fight on
Brushing aside mounting criticism of their delaying tactics, the brotherhoods have decided to carry their fight against rules changes to the U. S. Supreme Court p.9
'Basic oxygen' rails gain in RR favor
Among railroads using rail rolled from steel made by the "basic oxygen" process are the Santa Fe, SP and D&RGW. Other railroads await the results of laboratory testsp.15
Baggage carts catch on
Railroad travelers, as well as passenger traffic officers, like the economy and convenience offered by self-service luggage carts now available in many stationsp.26
What will future car trucks need?
Diverse viewpoints on what is needed to improve freight-car trucks were disclosed at a recent meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineersp.34
Car scrapes icicles off tunnel roofs
The Western Maryland uses a specially modified box car to prevent ice damage to the tops of automobiles on auto-rack cars. The modification cost about $1,900p.38
Improved supervision called critical need
Personnel problem areas-including selection and development of supervisors-were pinpointed by an MP executive at an RSMA seminar in Chicago p.39
Reading streamlines passenger services
The road is getting out of the mail and express business. Meanwhile, an equipment modernization program is tied to the acquisition of 12 new Budd RDC'sp.41
Shippers explore car-supply problem
Variable per diem charges and increased private ownership were among proposals advanced at a recent meeting of the Midwest Shippers' Advisory Board p.42
Santa Fe orders 24 hi-levels from Budd
The new chair cars will be assigned to ATSF's Chicago-Los Angeles streamliner, "El Capitan," freeing older equipment for use on other Santa Fe name trains p.48
The Action Page-Let's not forget Cuba
U. S. railroads were ready in the Cuban crisis. But there must be no letdown in efforts to remove the restrictions which keep them from full health p.54
Short and Significant
An electronic "alertness control" device . . .
has been successfully tested on several GP locomotives on a major western road. A midwestern company has an option to acquire manufacturing rights.
Regional hearings on the PRR-NYC merger . . .
begin Dec. 10 in Kalamazoo, Mich., and will be held in 10 or 11 other cities in the next two months. A final hearing in Washington is now scheduled to start Feb. 11.
Another merger involving NYC . . .
may be discussed this week when B&M President D. A. Benson meets with NYC President A. E. Perlman to talk over consolidation of B&M and NYC's, Boston & Albany division.
Intercity truck tonnage . . .
was 9.8% higher in this year's first nine months than for the corresponding 1961 period. Volume is now moving at approximately the 1961 level.
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