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Trains Magazine 1965 January Mr Pullman revisited
Trains Magazine 1965 January
January 1965Volume 25 Number 3
NEWS - -3
RAILROAD NEWS PHOTOS10
STEAM NEWS PHOTOS -14
THE BIG AND THE LITTLE18
MR. PULLMAN REVISITED20
OUR GM SCRAPBOOK - 524
PHOTO SECTION-29
THAT DEPOT AND ME -38
CARLISLE JUNCTION-44
BY RAIL THROUGH THE KHYBER 46
Railway post office 50Second section 55
Of books and trains 54Running extra 57
Interchange 57
COVER: Pullman on SP Imperial, Donald Sims; SR TR2 cow and calf, Al Kamm Jr. collection
SO long as we've known Alfred E. Perlman, and the acquaintance dates back reasonably early into his stewardship of New York Central commencing in June 1954, he has been a proud, sensitive, utterly confident man. Too sure of himself and too blunt of opinion to win universal regard, he has conversely been a force and often the force in Eastern railroad affairs ever since he came east from the Rockies at the bidding of the late Robert R. Young. At first we were skeptical and said so, urged toward that position by what might be termed a historical sympathy for New York Central and certain misgivings about the flamboyance of Mr. Young. No man to suffer criticism in silence, Perlman argued that we (and a lot of other people) didn't comprehend the dimensions of Central's dilemma or the obvious cures. And in time we were convinced and said so [June 1957 TRAINS].
Late last summer we rode again with him over NYC and found him just as proud, just as sensitive, just as confident. But at 62, with a decade of Central generalship under his belt, Al Perlman has mellowed. He can view his work in retrospect rather than in prospect. He can point with pride to rather than merely predict his concept of how to run a railroad. And so now there is time for him to relax, to patiently explain, to joke, to reminisce.
In essence he has turned a ponderous, nearly bankrupt, passenger-oriented trunk line inside out, making of it a lean, solvent, ultra-efficient ton-mile producer. He simultaneously eliminated and created. Almost in a frenzy, like a man seeking to save his house from being crushed by tropical vegetation, he cut, cut, cut - ruthlessly, systematically. He cut off half the passenger service, 60 freight yards, nearly 900 freight stations, 40,000 jobs, 242 million dollars' worth of fixed debt, almost 700 route-miles of railroad, all ferryboat service across the Hudson. But he also built. He gave Central more miles of C.T.C. (1653 at the end of 1963) than any other road in the East, thereby turning its obsolete four-track, two-speed (80 mph for passengers, 30 for freight) New York-Chicago main into a double-track, reverse-signaled line over which tonnage can top 60 per. To knife terminal costs (which account for a third of the road's freight expenses) and delays, he threw up four push-button hump yards (at Buffalo, Elkhart, Indianapolis, and Youngstown). He laced the system with space -age
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