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Railway Age 1954 February 22 Weekly New 144 mile Canadian line How NYC prepares
Railway Age February 22 1954 Vol 136 No 8
CONTENTS
How to train college men for careers leading to railroad executive positions was the subject of a two-day industry-college conference at the University of Michigan. 9
"There is nothing in sight to supplant trains; ahead of the railroads lies a great future," A.A.R. President William T. Farley told the same Michigan conference in a dinner address. 10
An atomic-powered locomotive has been designed by a University of Utah nuclear physicist, as briefly reported in these columns last week. 15
Should railroads and trucks interchange l.C.l. traffic on through routes and rates? Shippers said "Yes," in a recent poll by our associated publication, Railway Freight Traffic. 17
Freight operating statistics another roundup for large Class I railroads; this time for the months of November 1953 and 1952. 46
FORUM: On "piggybacks" the question is-not "if," but "whose." 53
The Canadian National's new line, from Sherridon, Man., 144 miles north to Lynn Lake, completed on schedule last fall, posed a number of difficult construction problems. 54
How the Soo runs a sales meeting - and some of the techniques it used to receive maximum practical value from such a meeting. 57
"Big" is the word for General Steel Castings Corporation, whose products have been part and parcel of the railroad industry for half a century. 60
How high should the per diem rate be? Understandable differences of opinion were developed at recent I.C.C. hearings. 64
When the NYC makes rent bills, it saves about $6,000 a year by using two I. B. M. cards for all purposes, including "dunning" notices. 66
BRIEFS
Just as a reminder - March 31 is the closing date for that $500 prize contest for the best essay on the "inherent advantages" of railroad transportation.
An advertising program designed to tell the story of overregulation of railroads and the industry's subsidized competition has been launched by the Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference. The program consists of three series of advertisements, scheduled to appear in business magazines, agricultural publications, and magazines read by journalists.
The I.C.C. has postponed, from April 7 until July 1, the effective date of its decision in the Ogden Gateway case. The delay was granted at the request of the federal district court, to which the case has been appealed.
Some 35,600 railroad employees were awarded retirement annuities in 1953, the Railroad Retirement Board reports. The average annuity was $104 a month-higher than ever before-and roughly one annuitant in 10 received $140 or more. The average was about $28 higher than it was before 1951 amendments to the Railroad Retirement Act increased the annuity scale.
Local interests in Silverton, Colo., are forming the Animas Canyon Rail Road Company with the object of acquiring the Silverton branch of the Denver & Rio Grande Western if that road seeks abandonment of the 45-mile scenic line. The new company would operate the line as a summertime tourist attraction much in the manner that the D&RGW has run it up through last fall. So far, the Rio Grande has not revealed any plans for the future of this, its last narrow-gage passenger-carrying line. But the Silverton interests are already trying to raise money "just in case."
A "bare-fisted fight" was promised by William White, president of the New York Central, after Robert R. Young announced his intention of waging a proxy fight for control of that railroad. Mr. White told a February 12 press conference in Chicago that he did not know just how much strength "the Young forces can muster," but said he would "not be surprised" if they attempt to buy more stock before the annual stockholders' meeting, May 26.
"Morgan-dominated" is the phrase Mr. Young has used to describe the present NYC board of directors. He has predicted he will be able to muster three times as many stockholders' votes at the May 26 meeting as the road's present management.
The transportation library of Charles W. Braden, late general traffic manager of National Distillers Products Company, has been presented to Amherst College. The Braden Memorial Fund, set up by Mr. Braden's friends at the time of his death, also has been given to Amherst to permit addition of new volumes to the library, which deals with transportation history, economic regulation and allied subjects.
Motion for a new trial of the Santa Fe union shop case (Railway Age, February 15, page 7) has been filed in Potter County district court at Amarillo, Tex., by the 16 non-operating unions. In their motion, the unions cite a total of 84 different points where they feel the court erred. Judge E. C. Nelson has the motion under consideration, but at press time for this issue, he had not made a decision. In the event the motion is not granted, the unions will probably appeal the decision in the Texas Court of Civil Appeals.
The National Mediation Board has been asked to step into the case of the Railroad Yard-masters of North America, which is seeking a 45 per cent pay boost for its membership "to restore historic wage relationships" with other railroad workers. Elsewhere the labor front was quiet as this issue went to press.
Railroad workers are among the best paid employees in all U. S. industries, according to an Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference study based on Census Bureau figures for 1950. The conference studied incomes in many of the leading industrial areas of the east, and in each area median annual income for railroad employees was higher than the median for employees of all industry in the area.
Some private truckers want "piggyback," and have so stated in a resolution forwarded to the I.C.C. by the more than 200 members of the Private Truck Council of America. Convening at Chicago, the group urged the commission to make the hauling of truck trailers on railway flat cars available to private truck owners as well as to for-hire motor carriers.
"The 4,000 steam locomotives cut into scrap iron every year would be worth their weight in gold in goodwill to the railroads of America if they were given instead to the children of cities and towns along the tracks," Howard Skidmore, Chesapeake & Ohio director of public relations and advertising at Cleveland, told a recent railroad group meeting at the University of Toledo.
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