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Railway Age Weekly 1962 October 22 L&N Integral trains for coal High capiacity c
Railway Age Weekly October 22, 1962
CONTENTS
Soo Line, CGW explore merger
Consolidation of the two midwestern carriers would create a 6,200-mile system linking five major rail centers and touching 11 statesp 9
Looking ahead on the Louisville & Nashville
L&N President William H. Kendall, in an exclusive interview with Railway Age, lists the reasons why his company regards the future with enthusiasmp 12
Communication & Signal Section meets this week
The AAR group's annual meeting will be held in the Sheraton-Chicago Hotel Oct. 23-25. Twelve addresses and 11 committee reports will be presentedp 16
Automatic telephone dialing saves time
Here's how the Milwaukee Road and the Chesapeake & Ohio have eliminated dialing errors and saved considerable time by using automatic telephone dialing devicesp 16
Trenching machines cut costs
Machines can reduce the cost of trenching by as much as two-thirds, compared with the cost of hand digging, a Railway Age survey indicatesp 19
SP uses new-type interlocking
A remote control interlocking installed by the railroad in California uses a non-conventional method of handling controls and indicationsp 20
Strike Problem: Rust on rails
During the Telegraphers' strike, the C&NW found more than one way to keep its rails rust-free and its signals operating properlyp 22
Tired of 'excuses,' shippers talk tough
Sharp criticism of railroads' failure to "give the customer what he wants" dominated NASAB's 26th annual meeting at Chicago last weekp 44
The Action Page Who's to pay for lost jobs?
If anybody is to pay indemnities for railroad jobs that have vanished it should be the federal government, which has paralleled railroads with subsidized competition p.50
Short and Significant
This year's gross capital expenditures .
of Class I line-haul railroads are now expected to be 29.7% above the 1961 outlay-$838.5 million, compared with $646.5 million.
Piggyback carloadings . . .
are still the brightest spot in the traffic picture. The week ended Oct. 6 was the third straight in which TOFC loadings topped the 15,000 mark (see page 43).
Abandonment of the Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee . . .
is now scheduled for early next month. The ICC has affirmed its previous report, authorizing the road abandon its entire line.
Class I railroad employment dipped . . .
to 685,020 in mid-September-down 3.6% from the August figure and 5.35% below a year ago, according to the ICC's Bureau of Transport Economics and Statistics.
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