Word: alpert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RAILROAD operators say they have had enough. "The necessity of employing firemen on freight and yard diesels costs the New Haven over $3,500,000 a year," says George Alpert, president of the New Haven Railroad. "This is absolutely unessential." Says E. F. Bidez, vice president of the Central of Georgia Railroad: "In 1958 we paid firemen on freight and switch engines $1,005,000. Considering the fact that we could get along without most of them, that's a good bit of money. It's 50% of the net earned last year." The Great Northern Railroad reports...
...Financier Patrick B. McGinnis won control of the line. McGinnis promptly cut service and maintenance, issued truculent public statements to commuters, who protested (TIME, Jan. 30, 1956). McGinnis was finally forced out after a bitter commuters' revolt, and into his place stepped quiet, fiddle-playing Lawyer George Alpert -who differs from McGinnis in being more polite...
Last week, citing a survey prepared by the Railway Labor Executives' Association, H. E. Gilbert, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, indicated just how far the New Haven has come under Alpert's presidency. Charging railroad lines in the New York area with deliberately providing bad service to drive commuters away and thereby end a money-losing operation, Gilbert delivered a devastating bill of particulars. Notably excepted was the Long Island Railroad, which has come from a commuter's nightmare to something close to a commuter's dream (TIME...
Since McGinnis left the New Haven, the line has increased its commutation fares three times, for an overall hike of 40.91%, and President Alpert recently announced that he is after another, averaging 6.26%, effective July 1. At the same time, the New Haven last year cut its equipment-maintenance costs by nearly $4,000,000, its ways-and-structures maintenance by nearly $2,000,000 (the New Haven says partly because of improved methods). The results of using aging, ill-kept equipment are clear for all to see and suffer: the latest monthly figures show that no fewer than...
There is insiderable talk in railroad circles these days that only one bold measure can possibly save the New Haven from financial ruin. Theorists suggest that if Mr. Alpert started running special trains for professors travelling to fulfill television commitments, he would halt the deepening slump in his company's passenger revenues...