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Railway Age Weekly 1963 February 4 Alco offers new Century locomotive series
Railway Age Weekly February 4, 1963
CONTENTS
TAA panel probes piggyback potential
Spokesmen for various interests gave their long-range views of TOFC prospects before 800 transportation men and shippers attending the National Transportation Institute ....p. 8
'Drastic action' ahead on BRT's wage demands
Charles E. Luna, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, tells how and why his union is set to push its demands for a pay increase and improved fringe benefits....p.12
Alco offers new Century locomotive series
The new series, designed to meet "market demands of the future," will cut operating costs by as much as 40 %, compared with 10-year-old diesels, says Alco p.16
Santa Fe tests flame-hardened rail
The experiment, under way in Arizona, will determine whether the road has found an economical solution to the problem of prolonging rail life in heavy-traffic territoryp.18
ACF plants use new grit blast cleaners
Saving several man-hours in cleaning operations, the cleaners, believed to be the largest ever built for the railroad industry, remove scale from freight cars in 71/2 minutesp.20
Why early mergers are urgently needed
Mass-produced transportation on the lowest-cost routes will bring greatly improved service and traffic growth to all merged companies, says P&LE President John W. Barrigerp.21
CB&Q gets double-deck stock cars
Estimated unit cost of the roller-bearing cars is $8,200. Built to meet a shipper demand for cars of greater capacity, they are the road's first 50-ft stock carsp.33
'Big John' report airs cost views
Subsidies to some transport media must be considered in figuring their costs, ICC's Division 2 said in clearing the Southerns reduced rates for multiple-car grain shipments p.34
The Action Page-Are suppliers railroaders?
The suppliers of railroad devices and equipment are just as dependent for their prosperity on the volume of railroad traffic and earnings as are the carriers p.38
Short and Significant
Seattle World's Fair Monorail . . .
will continue to be operated at least until Oct. 21 by Alweg Rapid Transit System of Washington State, Inc., a division of Alweg International, which built the line.
Average carrying capacity . . .
of freight cars in the Class I fleet on Jan. 1 was 56.31 tons, compared with 55.75 tons a year ago, according to figures compiled by the AAR.
Severe winter weather . .
was blamed by the AAR for the second consecutive weekly drop in revenue carloadings. Loadings in the week ended Jan. 26 were down 7.9%.
Automatic fare collection ...
and ticket validation will be tested at two Long Island stations under a mass transportation demonstration grant approved by the Housing & Home Finance Agency.
Increases in freight car orders ...
will require ACF to add 400 workers to the 900-man production force in its St. Louis shops. Orders totaling 1,800 cars were recently received from five different railroads.
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