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Railway Age Weekly 1963 September 2 Clear board for piggyback Toronto bets on ra
Railway Age Weekly September 2, 1963
CONTENTS
Rules dispute goes to arbitration
Despite protests from the brotherhoods, Congress last week moved to head off a nationwide rail strike by setting up a panel to make binding decisions on key rules issues p. 9
Clear board for piggyback
TOFC is "one of the most dynamic formulas for transportation" ever conceived and its growth should not be inhibited, say ICC examiners who handled the Ex Parte 230 study p.13
Toronto bets on rail
Plagued by downtown traffic problems, Toronto went underground with its first rail transit line in 1954. It's been a success-and $206 million is being spent now to extend it.p.20
Fort Worth's 'private' subway pays off
A mile-and-a-half rail transit line linking a parking lot with a department-store complex has proved to be a "very profitable venture" for the store's operators. p.22
How PRR and Reading use new M-U cars
The effect of modern equipment on the patronage of suburban service is being examined as the PRR and Reading put 55new cars into their Philadelphia-area operations p.24
Automation speeds C&NW track surfacing
A package of automated equipment being used on the Chicago & North Western permits track to be "sighted," raised, levelled and tamped with a single operator p.33
The Action Page-Strange bedfellows
Why have some shippers and "conservatives" joined recalcitrant union leaders in opposing compulsory arbitration as a solution to union-management disputes on railroads? p.38
Soo Line's 'supermarket' plan
To provide better service, the railroad is proposing that 11 freight service centers be established in Wisconsin to take over the work now done by 108 stations. p.32
Short and Significant
Net income of Class I railroads ...
for this year's second quarter was $188 million compared with 1962's $111 million. Net for the six months was $270 million compared with $181 million last year.
NYC President A.E. Perlman ...
has now been authorized to serve on the board of the Reading. The ICC's approval order reversed the Commission's previous denial of the Perlman application.
Newest Trailer Train member road ...
is the Western Maryland. WM announced last week that it has joined the piggyback car pool as part of a program designed to expand its freight services.
San Francisco and Japan will exchange ...
technical and scientific information developed in two big mass-transport projects: the Bay Area's billion-dollar rail transit system and Japan's new 125-mph Tokaido Line.
Number of serviceable freight cars ...
on Class I roads totaled 1,409,841 units Aug. 1, compared with 1,444,431 a year earlier. During the same period average carrying capacity increased from 56.12 to 56.63 tons.
Railroad tax reductions ...
are coming in Illinois. Gov. Otto Kerner-signed a bill Aug. 26 directing the Department of Revenue to reduce railroad assessments to the state-wide level for other property.
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