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Railway Age Weekly 1963 November 4 Report from MExico Quick unloading hopper car
Railway Age Weekly November 4, 1963
CONTENTS
Merger activity stirring
New developments in the merger field will probably be coming in the next four months, what with shareholders' voting, the completion of studies and other action dates ahead.p.9
Report from Mexico
The dominant theme of railroading today, judging from reports submitted to the XI Pan American Railway Congress, is change-all directed toward more effective operations p.13
Monorail gets a 'no'; Chicago plans a shuttle
Los Angeles examined monorail for its proposed rapid transit system, but has turned it down, favoring dual rails. Chicago, meanwhile, is planning a fast shuttle. p.18
Standard rails get Bay Area approval
San Francisco's rapid-transit planners have decided to keep the flanged-metal-wheel-on-steel-rail principle for the Bay Area's proposed 75-mile systemp.19
One way to un-bridge a gap
The Norfolk Southern has come up with a cost-cutting variation on the standard method of replacing a timber trestle with an embankment and a culvert pipep.21
Integral-train cars use special steels
The cars being built by the Louisville & Nashville for integral-coal-train operation utilize five different special steels to keep light weight to 63,000 poundsp.32
The unit train-Key to coal's survival?
Unit trains are helping the coal industry retrieve business by cutting transportation costs. In the process, the railroads stand to benefit as well. p.41
The Action Page-Quill has smug company
A proposal by Boss Quill of the Transport Workers Union that cities offer free rapid transit is no sillier than providing toll-free waterways for opulent corporations p.46
Short and Significant
B&O's booming piggyback service ...is expected to bring in $25 million by 1968 ($11 million this year), now that extensive tunnel clearance work has been completed to expedite traffic (p.44).
The shortage of grain cars ...is giving truckers a financial harvest. Elevators at Omaha, for example, reported a new high in grain truckloads for one day last month-332--as against 75 normally.
Yugoslavia last week received ...a $35 million loan from the World Bank to improve its railroad transportation. The loan will assist in financing improvements to a 121-mile line between Sarajevo and Ploce.
Class I railroad employment ...fell to 685,917 in mid-September-1.58% below the August figure, but 0.18% above the year-ago average, according to the ICC's Bureau of Transport Economics and Statistics.
The potential in automatic car identification ...and the possibilities in setting up a national computer accounting center are being probed by the AAR via a questionnaire to a number of member roads.
Out of the survey will come ...data needed to determine how best to progress ACI studies. Out of the studies, AAR says, will eventually come a recommendation as to whether the industry should adopt ACI.
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