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Railway Age Weekly 1962 May 7 PRR bridge washouts Mergers Toronto Transit Loose
Railway Age Weekly May 7, 1962
Loose cover
CONTENTS
Emergency board scales down non-op demands
A "non-inflationary" wage increase and five days' (instead of six months') notice of job eliminations have been recommended in the non-op casep 9
How the PRR plans to handle bridge washouts
The road has designed an all-steel trestle and adopted a system-wide plan of action for quickly restoring traffic after a bridge washout or burnoutp 16
Toronto Transit cars are designed to cut costs
The cars, two of which have just gone into experimental service, are said to have the lowest weight-space ratio ever attained in rapid transit cars on this continentp 16
RR mergers: 'Neither a picnic nor a funeral'
The urge to merge, says the author of this article, is simply another aspect of the railroads' battle to regain natural rights which have been taken away from them.p 18
Congress gets transportation bills
Legislation to implement President Kennedy's transport proposals -including a call for a "Transportation Act of 1962"-is now before Congress p.21
Philadelphia plans a commuter rail link
A proposed $37-million underground construction project would connect the PRR's suburban station with Reading Terminal, both of which are now stub-end terminalsp 22
Seaboard locomotive gets aluminum panels
Lower maintenance costs are expected to result from use of the aluminum sheathing. Eventually, all 66 of the SAL's passenger locomotives may be similarly outfittedp 24
ICC advised to approve C&O control of B&O
An examiner's favorable report cites potential savings through coordinated operations and B&O's "dire need" for capital improvementsp 33
The Action Page-Economics a la Herring
Commissioner Herring would not permit carriers to make competitive rates "at levels which will not return revenues sufficient to meet fully-distributed costs."p 38
Short and Significant
Federal grants are being sought . . .
for five demonstration railroad commuter projects proposed for the New York metropolitan area by the Tri-State Transportation Committee. Total cost would be $5.3 million.
Passenger-service deficit . .
of Class I railroads in 1961 was $408,207,955-down 15.9% from the 1960 deficit of $485,170,248. Western district railroads accounted for more than half of the 1961 deficit-$204,833,815.
Freight-car retirements ...
continue to exceed installations by a substantial margin. During the 12 months ended March 31, 75,388 cars were retired; only 23,645 new cars were installed.
A temporary restraining order . . .
requiring Engineers on the Belt of Chicago to end a walkout that began at 10 p.m. May 2 was issued by a federal district court in Chicago.
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