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Railway Age Weekly 1962 February 5 Report from Britain L&N builds metal pipe tun
Railway Age Weekly February 5, 1962
CONTENTS
Report from Britain: 'Railroading and politics don't mix'
Why has Britain's nationalization experiment failed so dismally? Here's the answer as one U.S. observer sees it after a careful on-the-scene studyp 6
Car identification systems approved
Two systems for automatic car identification-using microwave and infrared respectively- have received approval from an informal rail research groupp 8
GN-NP merger hearings recessed
The third phase of public hearings on the Northern lines' merger plans has recessed in St. Paul, Minn. Fifteen circuit hearings are scheduled in coming months p.10
NY Port Authority Plans Modern H&M
Legislation permitting the Port of New York Authority to buy and modernize the H&M has gone to New Jersey's Legislature and will soon go to New York'sp 12
L&N builds metal-pipe tunnel
What may be the world's largest corrugated-metal pipe has been built in the new classification yard at DeCoursey, Ky., to serve as a tunnel to pass diesel units under the hump p.14
Electrical planning pays off
Electrical energy is used in many ways by the railroad industry, but there are places where less than the maximum benefits of this power source are being obtained p.17
AT&SF line change will cut operating costs
The $3.5-million project is a 38.8-mile, single-track route between Abra and Skull Valley, Ariz. Target date for completion of grading and bridge work is February 10p 18
The Action Page-Policy making, Canada/U.S.
Vol. II of the report of Canada's Royal Commission on Transportation is a masterpiece of realistic analysis of the economic problems of transport competitionp 38
Short and Significant
L&N has dropped its C&EI control plea ...
but wants any MP or IC control conditioned to let it buy C&EI's Evansville-Chicago line and get trackage rights to southern Illinois mines.
New Haven's Talgo train .
has been returned to ACF Industries, which hopes to sell the cars elsewhere. The two locomotives, which are not ACF equipment, are also for sale.
J. T. Suggs is new Missouri Pacific chairman .
succeeding Russell L. Dearmont. Mr. Suggs, who has been president of the T&P, a MoPac subsidiary, will remain in that position in addition to his new duties.
Injunctions against a TWU strike ...
called for Feb. 4 have been issued by separate courts at the request of PRR and NYC. TWU had threatened the strike to protest the roads' merger plans.
BRT will oppose PRR-NYC merger
with "every legitimate means." These roads have been so advised by BRT President W.P. Kennedy who wants congressional probes and "directives" to ICC.
Class I railroads installed ...
25,263 new freight cars and retired 80,514 old cars in 1961. Total Class I ownership of serviceable cars was 1,465,568 on Jan. 1.
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