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The Empire State Express Races Toward Buffalo Headlight NEWS BRIEFS SEPTEMBER, 1964 SEPTEMBER • 1964 The Empire State Express Races Toward Buffalo Headlight NEWS BRIEFS SEPTEMBER, 1964 Vol. 25 No. 8 LOADINGS OF REVENUE CARS... net income figure is the highest since the first Printed in U.S.A. for the New York Central System reached a total six months of 1957. of 123,534 during the month of July. The figure On the other hand, however, it was also reported IN THIS ISSUE represents a decrease of 4,241 cars (or 1.8 per cent) by the Association that 23 of the 101 railroads did from July, 1963. not earn enough operating revenues to cover their NEWS BRIEFS 3 Varying amounts of decreases were noted in fixed charges for the first six months of 1964. FREIGHT SERVICE CENTER .... 4 all commodity classifications over the July, 1963, • • • HANDLING DIMENSION LOADS . 6 period. These ranged from automobile revenue PROMOTIONS 7 car loadings, which dropped to a total of 3,409 cars (or BILLION-DOLLAR IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM ... HEADLIGHT HILITES 8 18.3 per cent), to packing house products, down has given American railroads their most extensive FLEXI-VAN & CHICAGO DIAL ...10 53 cars (or 1 per cent) from July of last year. physical face-lifting in the past six years. The STEEL SHUTTLE 10 In the period from January 1st to July 31st, 1964, figure is for 1963 and may be exceeded by 25 per cent P&LE CROSSES A RIVER .... 1 1 car loadings totaled 1,710,525. This represents a in 1964, according to J. Elmer Monroe, an official SAFETY MEMO 12 decrease of 16,432 (or 1 per cent) from the correspond• of the Association of American Railroads. In his RECENTLY RETIRED 13 ing period during 1963. new booklet, "A Review of Railroad Operations in From Mattoon to Mexico • • • CENTRALINES 14 On a nationwide basis, the Association of American 1963," he traces a rising trend in railroad modern• went this recent shipment of 18 carloads of canal liner machinery. Ship• PATS ON THE BACK 15 Railroads reports that the nation's railroads recorded a ization over the last three years. The trend, ment was made via New York Central from the Blaw-Knox Company's WORLD'S FAIR GLASSWARE ... 16 total of 560,264 cars loaded with freight during the week Mr. Monroe reports, has brought railroad capital Construction Equipment Division at Mattoon, Illinois. From left: Charles ending July 25. The total figure is an increase of spending from a postwar low of $646,425,000 in Stilabower, Central's Freight Agent at Mattoon; Thomas D. Eckles, NORMAN M. STONE 1.5 per cent over the preceding week, but is 6.7 per cent 1961 to the 1963 total of $l,043,788,000-the first General Sales Manager of Blaw-Knox's Mattoon Plant; and Thomas E. Manager, Publications & Advertising below the same week in 1963. Reynolds, Central's Illinois Division Superintendent. billion-dollar breakthrough since 1957. GEORGE BOHOT, Editor The AAR attributed part of the decline to the However, he added, the nation's railroads need fact that a high percentage of coal miners were on SYDNEY OXBERRY, Art Editor to spend between $1.5 billion and $2 billion a year on vacation during that period and, conseguently, capital improvement work. This expenditure is normal work activity had been reduced at the nation's necessary to overcome obsolescence and to fully coal mines. In the comparable 1963 week, most of realize the gains offered by advancing rail technology. EDITORIAL ASSOCIATES the miners had returned from vacations, the John E. Salter, Syracuse AAR stated. Harry B. Spurrier, Chicago • • • BIGGEST PRODUCTION CAR... Donald A. Newman, Cleveland ever built by railroad equipment makers reports the Farwell C. Rhodes, Jr., Indianapolis RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD ... Association of American Railroads, is the "high-cube," Robert W. Schuette, Boston announces the publication of its recently updated the new railroad box car expected to play an important Fred A. Huber, Jr., Detroit issue of "Legal Opinions." The handbook includes role in distribution activities of the auto industry. selected rulings issued by the Board's Bureau of According to the Association, the new box car Law during 1961. Information includes application HEADLIGHT is published by tbe New York holds 10,000 cubic feet of cargo, more than double the Central System for its active and retired and interpretation of the law in questions concerning volume of the conventional car, and is ideally employes and their families. All commu• the Railroad Retirement and Unemployment nications should be addressed to the suited to the auto makers' special needs. Conventional HEADLIGHT editorial office: Room 1446,466 Insurance Acts. box cars required the building of special interiors Lexington Ave, New York 17, N. Y. Mem- Retired railroad employees will find useful ber: American Railway Magazine Editors for each type of auto part. In "high cubes", fork-lift Association, New York Association of information in "Legal Opinions." The handbook trucks load and unload especially-designed racks Industrial Communicators, International is available at 50 cents per copy. Orders for copies Council of Industrial Editors. which hold various auto parts. should be directed only to: Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, • • • From Manhattan to Syracuse • • • ON THE COVER: Train No. 50, New Washington, D.C. 20402. was the "thrill-of-a-lifetime" trip this group of youngsters will always York Central's ever-popular "Empire RAILROAD UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT ... remember. Group is part of over 1000 boys and girls from New York State Express," races through upstate reports that an average of more than 30,000 jobs a City who rode the Central to upstate New York. Event was the recent New York, giving passengers dramatic year have been found for claimants over the past 10 views of pleasant, rolling countryside. annual vacation program sponsored by The New York Herald Tribune THE 101 CLASS I RAILROADS... years. The Insurance Act authorizes the Railroad Fresh Air Fund. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Bennett (couple at left) give The train originates at Grand Central a smiling welcome to young Richard Kohlmann, of Brooklyn, who spent Terminal . then goes through all of the nation had an estimated net income of $195 Retirement Board to operate a free employment service his vacation in their home. Mr. Bennett, Terminal Trainmaster at DeWitt, major New York cities to Buffalo . million in the second quarter of 1964, the for unemployed railroad workers. Board officials and Mrs. Bennett escorted a group of 300 youngsters from Grand Central then on to Cleveland and Detroit in Association of American Railroads has announced. explained that many of the placements are due to the Terminal to Syracuse. two sections. "The Empire" was photo• Total net income for the first half of 1964 was fine cooperation of railroad unemployment claims graphed near Wayneport, N. Y., by photographer Ed Nowak. estimated at $339 million. According to the AAR, this agents and Personnel departments. September, 1964 3 2 New York Central Headlight GENERAL CLERICAL STAFF FOR SERVICE CENTER. NEW FACILITY COMBINES FREIGHT & YARD OFFICE FOR CHICAGO SWITCHING DISTRICT. Freight Service Center NEW YORK CENTRAL'S latest consolidated Freight Service Center is housed in recently renovated and completely modernized building in Englewood, Illinois. OPENS AT ENGLEWOOD "Bob" Barnes, Central's Freight Agent at Englewood. Results are always impressive when fully air-conditioned office building in are offices of the Freight Agent, Assistant The new center is expected to become New York Central employees use team• less than five weeks. The old interior was Freight Agent, Trainmasters, Cashier, the prototype for similar installations at work and determination—in a common ripped out. Tiled floors, wood-paneled Accounting Revision Bureau, Yard major points along the System. Such a effort toward a common goal. walls, sound-proofed ceilings, fluorescent Office personnel, and the Machine Room. consolidation is currently under way at This was the spirit that enabled the lighting and Venetian blinds were in• Electronic data processing equipment in Kankakee. recent opening in Englewood, Ill., of stalled. the Machine Room will eventually be Consolidation at Englewood involved Central's latest consolidated Freight Outside, the "ginger-bread" wainscot• hooked into Data Central, New York transferring forces from the former Polk Service Center. ing was removed and the entire surface Central's system-wide electronic com• Street Station. This, in turn, enabled the The Center combines, for the first sandblasted. Sandblasting operations re• munications network. expansion at that station of Flexi-Van time, Freight Station and Yard Offices. vealed an attractive brick facade dis• On the second floor are located the mail handling facilities required to meet The new facility is at 63rd and State colored over the years. clerical forces, including Chief Clerk, demands of this growing traffic. Streets, in a now completely modernized To provide adequate employee park• Rate Clerk, Switching Clerk and Coal Two enormous signs advertise the structure originally built before the turn ing space, a dirt bank and railroad trestle Clerk, also the billers and statistician. Center and its service. One faces the of the century. were removed. The entire area was re• "Putting these departments under one New York Central's mainline, the other New York Central forces, in coopera• surfaced with crushed stone ... all done roof streamlines our billing and car faces State Street. Both herald the new in less than eight hours. handling procedures and permits more station as a modern freight service cen• CASHIER & ACCOUNTING Dept. From left: James Barrow, Cashier; Joseph Ward, tion with contractors, converted the two- On the first floor of the new Center efficient customer service," said F. R. ter on the "Road to the Future." Ass't Cashier-Machine Operator; Mrs.
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