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Railway Age Weekly 1960 February 8 Mechanical cooling Handy guide RR Meetings
Railway Age Weekly February 8, 1960
CONTENTS
RRs, BLE accept arbitration P. 9
A major rail strike is a lot less likely now that the carriers and Engineers have agreed to submit their wage dispute to binding arbitration. The result could be a "pattern" settlement involving other brotherhoods.
Cover Story-Mechanical reefers get the traffic p.14
The country's fleet of mechanically refrigerated railroad cars has more than quadrupled since 1955. These so-called RP cars carry a wide variety of commodities, frozen and non-frozen. Here, in the first part of a two-article series, is why mechanical reefers are in the limelight.
RRs press for diversification p.35
Eight railroad executives-including three presidents-made a strong pitch last week for the right to engage in other forms of transportation. They told a House subcommittee in Washington that current restrictions on transport diversification are short-changing the public.
The Action Page-Government transport research p.38
All technological advancement in railroading has come from research by railroads and their suppliers. A case in point is the railroads' progress in adoption of mechanical refrigeration as part of their constant and vigorous effort to improve service. Railroad competitors, though, get government handouts by the billions.
Short and Significant
Robert 0. Boyd will continue . . .
as a member of the National Mediation. Board, of which he is now chairman. The Senate has confirmed President Eisenhower's reappointment of Mr. Boyd for another three-year term ending Jan. 31, 1963. He has been a member of NMB since 1954.
First tri-level 85-ft flat car . . .
designed to carry new autos was scheduled to make its first move via Frisco over the past weekend. The car, built for Frisco by Pullman-Standard, was demonstrated to Chrysler Corp. officers last Thursday in St. Louis. Capable of handling 12 standard-size autos or 15 compact cars, it is equipped with a 10-in. travel cushion underframe and universal tie-down system-full-length channels to which cars may be anchored in transit. Each of the three decks has its own bridge plates, to permit loading-unloading operations in the same manner as trailers are handled in piggyback service. During test runs, Frisco will use a special mobile tri-level loading ramp, built by company shops on an existing flat car. Santa Fe is also working (with Ford) on a tri-level 88-ft car. Prototype (531/2 ft in length) went into service Jan. 20 (RA, Jan. 25, p. 7; Feb. 1, p. 12).
Another 500 mechanical refrigerator cars . . .
have been ordered by Santa Fe. Delivery of the cars, along with 200 ordered previously (RA, July 13, 1959, p. 41), will bring the road's ownership to more than triple the number of units (310) in service now (see page 15). G. E. Duffy, Santa Fe traffic vice president, said the new order will bring the company's investment in mechanical refrigerator cars to more than $30,000,000-including almost $15,000,000 for the new block of 500 50-ft, 70-ton cars.
Volume rates on coal . . .
as now published by eastern railroads will be approved by the ICC if the Commission adopts Examiner E. L. Boisseree's proposed report. The report came out of the Commission's investigation No. 32871 of the rates, which it did not suspend. The rates apply on bituminous coal, other than for cooking or metallurgical purposes, from Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia and Kentucky to several Atlantic ports from Salem, Mass., to Baltimore, Md. While minimum-volume requirements vary, the tariffs in issue are generally like those applicable on shipments to the New York harbor area. These provide that industries receiving at least 5,500,000 tons of coal a year will get a rate cut on all coal in excess of 3,000,000 tons.
Imagination and hard work .
have started paying off for Missouri Pacific's passenger traffic department. Passenger revenues in 1959 increased 4% over '58 figures-first time since 1951 that year-end results showed anything but a downward trend. And passenger train revenue per train-mile climbed to a 10-year high.
Bootleg trucking . . .
is seriously undermining the financial structure of the regulated transportation system, says W. M. Buttram, president of the National Conference of State Transportation Specialists and director of the Arkansas Commerce Commission. "Wildcatters ignore identification and insurance requirements and steal jobs with cut-throat rates," according to Mr. Buttram. The executive committee of the national conference is preparing a program calling for interstate cooperation on enforcement problems as well as uniformity and simplification of regulations.
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