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Trains Magazine 1962 March Farewell to America's first freight diesels
Trains Magazine 1962 March
March 1962Volume 22 Number 5
NEWS - - -3B
RAILROAD NEWS PHOTOS8
STEAM NEWS PHOTOS -12
HUSTLING HEISLER --18
THE RAILFAN -20
WHAT KIND OF PHOTOS?25
JAPANESE NATIONAL - 132
FAREWELL TO THE FT -42
BIG PICTURE, BIG CAR -48
COVER: A parade of FT's, Electro-Motive's first diesel freighter. See Second Section for details.
Railway post office 50Of books & trains 54
Second section53Stop, look & listen 55
Interchange 58
"THE ALARMING THING"
TWO contradictory, thoroughly alarming statements appeared back in the financial pages of the January 18, 1962, New York Herald-Tribune in a story by Fred B. Stauffer. The report centered about two speakers who had appeared at a national transportation institute the previous day at the Hotel Commodore in New York. President Jervis Langdon Jr. of Baltimore & Ohio told the audience that the railroads must halt traffic erosion to other carriers and urged withdrawal of minimum-rate controls to enable them to do so. "If the railroads are not successful in this direction," predicted Langdon, "there is no hope, no matter how successful they are in consolidating and co-ordinating their operations, eliminating duplicating facilities and services, and otherwise putting their houses in order. It would merely be a question of time before the debacle."
Langdon went on to disagree with those who say railroading is indispensable, and said that if the country is completely unmindful of expense it can live without the rails, in peace or war.
The other speaker was Representative Oren Harris (Dem., Ark.), chairman of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. He told the same group that he does not believe a transportation crisis exists any more in 1962 than in the recent past, and simply said that some recent disturbing earnings trends must be cured to insure a healthy common carrier industry.
We would think that both Jervis Lang-don Jr. and Oren Harris are honest, sincere gentlemen and that neither would intentionally play the role of scaremonger or, conversely, declare there's no fire where there's smoke. Yet according to the Trib, the railroad president says that the rails are surely doomed without rate-making freedom and the Congressman says that no transport crisis exists. Are we to understand, then, that either: (1) Congress discredits the reams of impartial, publicly sponsored research which bears out the railroad dilemma; or (2) Government has decided that the rails, no matter what their productivity and economy, are expendable?
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