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Railway Age Weekly 1963 September 23 N&W Burlington CN
Railway Age Weekly September 23, 1963
CONTENTS
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
Railroads rise to the challenge p.18
Diversification pays off for the N&W p.20
Optimistic sites on the future p.23
Box score: U.S. and Canada p.24
Burlington's greener pastures p.26
Who's who in industrial development p.34
CN: Fares to fill seats
The Canadian National's highly-successful innovations in passenger service are being extended across the continent to court customers coast-to-coast p.9
'Confidence in coal'
Official predictions are that the volume of export coal will double by 1970-and much of it will move through Norfolk & Western's new Pier 6 in Norfolk p.48
The Action Page: Transport- at whose cost?
How can free-enterprise railroads continue to provide certain needed services when their competitors defray a large part of their expenses from the public treasury? p.54
Short and Significant
The largest single order . . .
for covered hopper cars ever placed with Pullman-Standard was recorded last week. Santa Fe will pay 815 million for 1,000 trough-hatch covered hoppers (p.47).
Railroad labor has joined management ...
in supporting the minimum-rate bill. Congress has been so advised by Chairman G. E. Leighty of the Railway Labor Executives' Association.
The support reverses ...
RLEA's previous opposition. It is a breakthrough in management's drive for this legislation, which it regards as the heart of President Kennedy's transport program.
Labor-management plan .. .
for amending the Railroad Retirement and Unemployment Insurance acts is half-way through Congress. The House last week passed the implementing bill, HR 8100.
Former President Harry S. Truman ...
heads up the speakers' list for the American Railway Progress Exposition in Chicago, Oct. 9-16. Also among the speakers : Secretary of the Navy Fred Korth.
The newly-organized Vermont Railway ...
hopes to restore partial rail service on the Rutland by late October if its plan to lease 126 miles of the Rutland purchased by the State of Vermont is approved by the state and the ICC.
The plan calls for operating ...
a weekly minimum of three freight trains each way between Burlington and Rutland, and at least two between Rutland, and at least two between Rutland and Bennington. Up to 200 employees would be hired.
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