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Railway Age Weekly 1962 September 10 SP special microwave LI engineers longest c
Railway Age Weekly September 10, 1962
CONTENTS
ORT, C&NW dig in for a long siege
With mediatory efforts showing no apparent progress, there were signs last week that this key battle for job security might be a long onep 9
SP installs special microwave
The 270-mile system, through California's San Joaquin valley, is to be completed this month. The system will handle 60 voice channels and 30 teletypewriter channelsp 16
CB&Q measures cars in motion
Delays normally incident to measuring high-wide loads have been minimized by a new device installed in the Burlington's Eola, Ill., yardp 19
Long Island begins huge construction job
Nearly $80 million worth of bridges and grade-crossing-elimination projects involving the road are to be built as part of plans for the forthcoming World's Fairp 22
WP uses 'super-cube' trailers
The new piggyback trailers, designed to handle refrigerator show cases, are suitable for any lading which requires a high degree of protection against damagep 35
Milwaukee rebuilds RPO cars
Two cars-which feature improvements in design, better lighting and 1,032 letter separations for sorting mail en route-are in service. Two more will be converted laterp 37
Wabash U25B school is continuing project
Concentrated at the outset on operating and maintenance people, the school is designed to instruct personnel to operate and maintain the 2,500-hp GE diesel unitsp 42
Interest runs high in TOFC probe
The ICC's piggybacking investigation has elicited statements from more than 50 interested parties, including some 25 railroads p.44
How L&N pushes its auto-TOFC traffic
To promote its mushrooming piggyback and autorack traffic, the L&N set up a system-wide sales organization to service that type of traffic exclusivelyp 46
The Action Page-Four hills to climb
Four goals for railroaders : Change operating employees' working rules ; secure enactment of President Kennedy's transport program ; mergers ; clearer understanding of costsp 62
Short and Significant
Intercity truck tonnage ...
in the week ended Aug. 25 was 0.6% below the year-ago figure-first time in more than a year that weekly highway tonnage has trailed volume of a year earlier.
James R. Hoffa's Teamsters Union ...
claims that "nearly 1,000" members of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks on the Southern Pacific have indicated they want to quit the BRC and join the Teamsters.
'Kennedy bills' .
to implement the President's transportation message will come up for hearing again this week before the Senate Commerce Committee. Water carriers will be heard.
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