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Trains Magazine 1967 April Consolidations, Inc tonnage hauler with 2-8-0
Trains Magazine 1967 April
April 1967Volume 27 Number 6
NEWS --- -3
PROFESSIONAL ICONOCLAST -5
RAILROAD NEWS PHOTOS8
STEAM NEWS PHOTOS -12
THANK YOU, MR. WHITE18
THE BEAR AND THE BIG HOOK 23 RACE FOR THE TRACTION TROPHY 24
PHOTO SECTION- - - 29
CONSOLIDATIONS, INC. - 1 - 38
MEET A LUCKY MAN- - 48
Railway post office 50Second section 54
Of books & trains 53Running extra 55
Interchange 56
COVER: Delaware & Hudson 2-8-0 montage. Photos, D. W. McLaughlin; artwork, John Swatsley.
WHAT DO WE TELL HIM?
WE have an acquaintance downtown with whom we occasionally lift a glass of beer. He's a newspaper advertising salesman and he has savvy about transportation to the extent that he once worked for an airline and he sells space to industries which are large shippers.
Aware of our involvement with the iron horse, this man approached us the other evening to complain about his latest train ride to Chicago. It was bumpy, and he suspected that the railroad didn't want passengers. We said that that was a fair estimate of the situation, that the railroad - like his newspaper - wanted to make money, and that the line had discovered that there was a lot more profit in coupling box cars behind its diesels than coaches.
Quite quickly we were sidetracked onto Federal land grants - one always is in these discussions. We gave the standard responses: The grants were not a gift but a contract between the Government and a few Western railroads to develop otherwise worthless (i.e., without transportation) land; the Government estimated the land to be worth an average of 94 cents an acre and obliged the carriers to repay the 123 million dollars involved by hauling military troops and supplies at half-price - which they did until October 1946, by which time they had repaid the bill 10 times over; and, anyway, the grants went to railroads which built just 8 per cent of today's railroad mileage. Our man listened, he nodded, and he allowed the conversation to return to the how-to-make-money idea; but we doubt if he was persuaded of the efficacy of those land grants. We suspect we may thank his high-school and c o 11 ege instructors as well as the authors of his history texts for that, not to mention the industry (except for the arduous work of the A.A.R.'s Robert S. Henry) which has failed to come to grips with the issue in a p.r. context.
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