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Railway Age Weekly 1962 July 2 C&O Twin Yard Using off road equipment - derailme
Railway Age Weekly July 2, 1962
CONTENTS
Mediation fails in work-rules dispute
A showdown in the long and bitter fight moved closer last week as both sides pondered a request by the National Mediation Board that the dispute be arbitratedp 9
'Maintain ahead' to keep yards going
Preventive maintenance is one of the most important factors in securing continuously good operation of automatic retarder classification yards, a recent survey revealsp 14
Dual hump doubles C&O yard's capacity
Cost of the project at the Walbridge, Ohio, classification yard was $370,000, only a fraction of the cost of a new yard. Most work was done by company forcesp 16
Off-track equipment clears derailments
The increasing use of off-track equipment, plus other modern developments for restoring track during emergencies, were described at the recent Railroad Superintendents' meeting p.19
ASME symposium charts fuel trends
The changing pattern of fuel consumption and transportation in the nation during the decade of the Fifties was analyzed at the New Brunswick, N.J., meetingp 21
Mechanical Division ups load limits 5%
Announcement that the increase will become effective Aug. 1 was a highlight of the division's annual meeting in Chicago last week p.28
Rough journey seen for transport bills
Congress has passed the fare-tax repealer-but there are indications that more controversial bills, now at the hearing stage, will find the going toughp 31
The Action Page- How to avert a recession
The country's businesses need more orders. Railroads could supply those orders if they were given the right to compete on equal terms with other forms of transportationp 34
Short and Significant
24,142 new freight cars were installed ...
by Class I railroads during the 12 months ended May 31, 1962. During the same period, 78,234 cars were retired, according to the AAR's Car Service Division.
J.M. Symes, PRR chairman and chief executive officer . . .
will continue in both capacities beyond his 65th birthday, July 8, in order that he may "continue his leadership in formulating me-ger plans" involving PRR and New York Central.
New president of the Texas Mexican ...
is J. W. Kraemer, formerly division superintendent of the Southern Pacific at San Antonio, Tex. He succeeds the late W. C. Beaman (RA, May 14, p. 37).
Creation of a 225,000-member brotherhood . . .
by consolidating the Conductors and the Brakeman has been stalled by ORC&B's rejection of the merger proposal "under the proposed terms."
Removal of minimum-rate regulation . . .
offers "the one cure which will enable the railroads to recapture traffic they have lost." C&NW Chairman Ben Heineman told a news conference in Baltimore June 28.
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