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Trains Magazine 1956 May Big Look at Big Boy Great locomotive chase
Trains Magazine 1956 May Big Look at Big Boy
66 Pages
Railroad news and editorial comment. By David P. Morgan.6
Ben Heineman - will he have solutions
for the North Western's plaguing ills?
Railroad news photos.- If you think you've seen the latest, take8
a gander at what the railroads are doing.
How would you like your center of gravity?
By David P. Morgan.-14
Designers have turned out a new line of trains to suit milady, the railroad.
The great locomotive chase. By Rosemary Entringer.21
Two of the brightest locomotive lights of history come alive for the cameras.
Diesels on a desk top. By David P. Morgan.25
TRAINS' 8th annual motive power survey looks at what 1955 meant to the railroads.
Big look at Big Boy. Photographs by Robert Hale.31
Nine pages of classic photographs of Union Pacific's sublime locomotive, Big Boy.
Those new trains ... more splash than speed?
By Donald M. Steffee.-----40
Did the speed rise which analysts anticipated for 1955 live up to expectations?
Steam in 1956.---51
Treat yourself and your family this summer - track down the steam strongholds
FOR A SICK RAILROAD, A DOCTOR
THE most notable fact about the Chicago & North Western Railway is not that it operated the first locomotive into Chicago (the Pioneer in 1848) or employed the world's most famous railroad heroine (Kate Shelley) or owns the largest freight yard in the nation (Proviso) or sponsors the second biggest rail suburban service west of New York. It is the melancholy fact that North Western is the sickest big railroad (7873 miles and operating revenues of 198.7 million dollars* last year) in the U. S. Its poor financial performance-preferred dividends not earned last year and no dividends paid on common stock since 1950 - stems from such indices of efficiency as these:
All class 1 roadsC&NW
1955 -
Transportation ratio37.344.9
Operating ratio75.784.7
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