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Railway Age Weekly 1960 January 4 PRR top train grosses $5 Million Air Freight
Railway Age Weekly January 4, 1960
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Strike threats cloud 1960 P 7
Carloadings will climb 8-16% and capital expenditures will rise to "at least $1 billion" in 1960, according to AAR and Commerce Department forecasts. But a resumption of the steel strike, or a railroad tie-up, could change the picture.
Cover Story-Air freight industry has big plans p.12
Jet and turboprop cargo planes now on the drawing boards are expected to be potent weapons in the air freighters' bid for a larger share of the country's freight hauling business.
Let's use available adhesion p.16
Locomotives are robbed of power and the tonnage of trains is artificially limited by wheel slippage. Modern slip detectors, plus available correction means, can produce high adhesion continually at high and low speeds, suggests GE's John C. Aydelott.
Cover Story-B&O has new way to rip out surplus trackp.18
The method-involving use of a device called a "ripper"-has speeded up removal of track. Exact cost figures are not yet available, but the road knows it is saving money.
Cover Story-PRR's top train grosses $5 millionp.20
The "Broadway Limited" is the only train providing all-room first-class luxury service between New York and Chicago. Its success indicates that it satisfies a real customer demand, and the Pennsy aims to keep it that way.
How cars' in multiple cut costs p.23
Handling cars that way, instead of singly, might slash terminal costs 25% or more, according to Walter B. Wright, executive consultant, rate research, for the C& O.
Why RRs need 'soft selling' p.25
There is evidence aplenty, says James G. Lyne, editor of Railway Age, that railroad freight traffic salesmen must intensify their use of the technique known as "soft selling." But, he warns, it isn't an easy technique.
The Action Page-No more wage increases? p.38
Both managements and union leaders have gone along weakly with wage policies dictated by politics-contrary to economic considerations and common sense. The only way to raise real wages, continuously, for everybody, is not to raise money wages at all.
Short and Significant
The BLE and BLF&E have declared a truce . . .
ending jurisdictional warfare in Canada for at least the next two years. BLE Grand Chief Guy L. Brown and BLF&E President H. E. Gilbert signed a memo of understanding pledging their respective organizations not to invoke services of the Canadian labor board with regard to representation prior to the next BLE convention (1962). After that, the pact may be ended by either organization on 30-day notice. Immediate effect of the no-raid agreement will be withdrawal of a BLF&E application seeking representation for engineers on Canadian Pacific. The pact does not affect BLE-BLF&E relations in the U. S.
Wage negotiations are expected to resume . .
this week after a holiday recess. Management sources, meanwhile, reported no new developments on the rules front, although both the BLE and BLF&E have ended local talks and referred the dispute to their national headquarters.
One set of union notices . .
is being withdrawn-the four-point rules program instituted in 1958 by all organizations except the BLE, and ORC&B. The demands involved a revised time limit rule on grievances, establishment of new rules on hiring, new conditions for safety and sanitation and a program of accident benefits.
Diesel-hydraulic locomotives . . .
may be operating on the Rio Grande in about a year. Three 4,000-hp units have been ordered from a German manufacturer. Reports put the cost of the order at about $1 million. (RA, Nov. 23, p. 9.)
B&O is slashing round-trip coach fares . . .
on all routes, effective Jan. 5. The new rates-ranging from 21% to 33% below present charges-were first tried on an experimental basis. Now they'll apply to all B&O trains between Baltimore, Washington, Pittsburgh and Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, and important intermediate points. Typical saving: new round-trip coach fare between Baltimore, Washington and Chicago is $38.10, $10.50 below the present fare.
Loss of 5,811 freight cars . . .
from the fleet of Class I railroads came in November. The month's retirements totaled 8,322 cars while only 2,511 new ones were placed in service. Stepped-up repair programs, however, cut the bad-order backlog by 5,264 cars and thus reduced the month's net loss in serviceable cars to 547. Ownership on Dec. 1 was down 40,711 cars from the year-earlier total. The serviceable fleet was down 30,101 cars.
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