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Railway Age Weekly 1963 February 11 B&O rehabilitation plan is announced
Railway Age Weekly February 11, 1963
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B&O rehabilitation plan is announced
Chesapeake & Ohio will start immediately on a S232-million program of locomotive and car purchases and new facility building to pump new vigor into the B&Op.9
Bargaining facing last chance: Wirtz
The Secretary of Labor sees compulsory arbitration as a future possibility if collective bargaining can't produce peaceable settlements in major labor disputes p.11
Kennedy bills need zealots in Congress
Laws to implement the President's transport program won't come easy, says Burton K. Wheeler, as he recalls his efforts to get the 1940 Transportation Act through the Senate p.12
MP builds box-express cars
Believed to be the largest box car-type BX cars ever built, the units, built in MP's De Soto, Mo., shops, have 34% more floor area, weigh only 2% more, than the cars they replace p.13
Space-age gases hauled in cylinder cars
The specially equipped cars are designed to afford greater flexibility in the increasingly important field of high-pressure gas and chemical transportation p.14
New tank cars used for sodium chlorate
The cars, called first of their type to be employed by the U.S. sodium-chlorate industry, are equipped to simplify and speed loading and unloading operations p.18
JFK determined to push transport bill
President Kennedy 'means business' in his determination to have his transportation program pass Congress this year, says a Commerce Department transport official p.19
Are some long-haul rates too low?
The author of this article calls for more competitive pricing by railroads, which may mean increases in long-haul rates, to halt diversion of traffic from railroads p.22
The Action Page-Too much transport research?
The only fault that might be found with the Commerce Department's transportation research program is that it is not nearly comprehensive enough p.38
Short and Significant
First joint appointment to be announced . . .
by C&O-B&O is the naming of Kenneth T. Reed, chief mechanical officer of the C&O, as general manager, motive power and equipment, for both companies, at Huntington.
An additional $50 million in revenue ...
will go to the GM&O over the next ten years of integral-train coal hauling for Commonwealth Edison Co. GM&O plans to spend 82 million for locomotives for the trains.
National Mediation Board . . .
will be fully manned if the Senate confirms President Kennedy's nomination of H. G. Gamser, now counsel for the House Labor Committee.
Illinois Central's commuter service . . .
operated in 1962 at slightly better than break-even for the third straight year. Net income from the service was $313,368, down slightly from 1961's 8314,944.
Delaware & Hudson has demanded . . .
that the ICC include it in the Norfolk & Western-Nickel Plate merger. Otherwise, it will oppose the Pennsylvania-New York Central merger - unless it is included therein.
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