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Railway Age Weekly 1962 October 29 ACF offers kighter & lower piggyback flat car
Railway Age Weekly October 29, 1962
CONTENTS
Cuban crisis: Railroads again fill vital defense role
East, west, north and south, railroads moved swiftly last week to meet emergency transportation requirements created by the Cuban situationp 9
'Big John' cars unload clean
Two of the 100-ton covered hopper cars, subjected to a movement and unloading test by Continental Grain Corp., came through with flying colors.p 13
Traffic manager's role in plant location
Here's how Griffin Wheel Co.'s traffic manager helped his firm organize a new division for making a cast iron pressure pipe and then locate the producing plant. p.14
C&O opens new TOFC center
The center has improved the supply of trailers and flat cars at C&O piggyback ramps and has permitted handling the same amount of business with fewer trailers. p.31
ACF offers lower, lighter piggyback car
The new 89-ft car-called Hitch Hiker, Model II-has a deck height of 311/2 in. and is said to be the lowest flush deck flat car for TOFC and auto-rack service. p.32
Demurrage-What is its purpose?
Basically, says the author of this study, demurrage is a "penalty" means for increasing the availability of freight cars, thus benefiting shippers and railroads.p 46
Should freight rates include a mileage allowance?
A bare majority of respondents to this month's Traffic Poll approve a suggestion to include in freight rates mileage allowances for private cars-owned or leased.p 50
Communication, signal engineers review 'disaster' recovery plans
In Chicago last week, C & S Section members heard two timely talks-on restoration of operations under attack or disaster conditionsp 54
Shopmen seek new job rules
"Farming out" of shop work is a major target of a job-protection drive launched by six mechanical craft unions.p 64
Rail 'turning point' seen in 18 months
During that time, says ICC Commissioner Bush, railroads must match improved government policy with their own initiative and innovationp 67
The Action Page-Webb vetoes JFK program
Commissioner Webb's "first law of political action" would give ailing railroads half an aspirin tablet in lieu of the all-out cure prescribed by President Kennedy.
Short and Significant
Volume-type rates on LCL . . .
may be established by B&O. The road favors a single-agency plan, says Assistant Vice President-Sales W. H. Schmidt, Jr., but no solution will work "without pricing freedom."
Union Pacific has started road testing ...
its experimental direct-fired coal-burning gas turbine-electric locomotive. The 5,000-hp locomotive uses processed coal as fuel.
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