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Railway Age 1978 September 25 Railroads & the automakers
Railway Age September 25 1978 Vol 179 No 18
CONTENTS
FEATURES
26 Railroads and the automakers: A bittersweet romance While the rails' automotive traffic is growing in volume, it's declining in percent of market. Here's what railroads are trying to do about it.
32 Motor vehicle L&D: The numbers are numbing Last year railroads paid out $6.78 in L&D claims for every $100 of revenue. It's a problem that calls for "attack ... and not just aspirin."
40 Maintaining unit trains: A penny per mile per car The cars Thrall built for Commonwealth Edison starting in 1964 have withstood the test of time-and Thrall has the figures to prove it..
44 Right cars, right place, right time: One shipper's story Archer Daniels Midland handles 300,000 rail cars a year. A computerized control system puts them where they're needed, and when.
48 Putting the computer into the cab Phase Ill of the Track/Train Dynamics program would give the locomotive engineer his own computer-and real-time operating information.
54 How shippers rate railroad salespeople The customers give traffic solicitors a passing grade-but it's far from being an A+, suggest replies to this month's Traffic Poll.
NEWS
4 Short and Significant
11 Chessie and SCL Industries: Going steady?
11 Ex-Conrail chief to head L&N
14 Conrail, UTU sign crew-consist pact
17 U.S.-backed center for railroad training?
17 Watching Washington
18 CP: Videotaping freight-car numbers
83 The Railroad Market
COMMENT
3 Inside
14 Lines on Labor
DEPARTMENTS
83 Carloadings
72 Industrial Traffic
86 New Literature
80 100 Years Ago
70 People in the News
86 Product Report
68 Quarterly Indexes
58 Revenues and Expenses
74 Suppliers
85 Guide to Advertising
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