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Railway Age Weekly 1962 June 11 Terminal problems PFE equips new car repair shop
Railway Age Weekly June 11, 1962
CONTENTS
Pay hike may mean job cuts
The 10.28-cents-an-hour increase won by the non-ops could result in the elimination of thousands of jobs, declare railroad spokesmenp 9
Dry air speeds C&IM yard and shop work
Air dryers installed by the road have helped eliminate unwanted, and costly, moisture and foreign matter from compressed air used in car repair and maintenance p 16
CPR solves its terminal problems
A pilot study at Winnipeg has cut out-of-pocket switching costs by at least 20%. Also, more efficient operation has vastly improved service to CPR customers p 18
P&S division to meet in Chicago
The AAR group's first meeting in two years will focus attention on committee reports which for the first time have been developed at regional meetings p 31
PFE car shop matches changing equipment needs
The $1.25-million facility repairs, services and cleans refrigerator cars before they are sent to the Southern Pacific, Pacific Electric and Union Pacific for loadingp 32
Diesel-hydraulics: 'Highly successful'
A favorable account of the performance of three 4,000-hp diesel-hydraulics acquired by D&RGW was presented at the Superintendents' convention in Chicago p.44
Economist appraises transport message
Harvard Professor John R. Meyer, a consultant to the Administration, says the Kennedy proposals have accomplished "more than meets the eye"p 46
The Action Page-Do we know our strength?
The relative economic strength of railroad transportation is only dimly discerned by most people, although the evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of railroad survivalp 50
Short and Significant
Nuclear power will supplement rather than supplant ...
energy derived from conventional fuels in public utility operations, up at least to the year 2000, AEC Chairman G. T. Seaborg told the 1962 Nuclear Congress at New York last week.
Work-rule talks will be 'long and hard' . . .
but the two parties "will solve this dispute themselves," NMB Chairman Leverett Edwards predicted as union-carrier meetings continued in Chicago last week.
BRT is organizing its leadership in 12 states . . .
to fight the proposed merger of the New York Central and the Pennsylvania. Trainmen President W. P. Kennedy warns of "economic mayhem" if the consolidation goes through.
Booming coal traffic . . .
is reported by C&O. Coal movements in May (87,655 carloads) were highest for any month since October 1958. So far this year C&O coal traffic is running 24% ahead of 1961.
Hearing on bills to implement . . .
major phases of President Kennedy's transportation program will be held June 26, 27 and 28 by the Senate Commerce Committee, Chairman Magnuson (D.-Wash.) has announced.
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