Word: dieselization
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...Pennsy and Central are so sure that they will win ICC approval within a year or so that they have already begun to carry out major joint projects. Along with scheduling layoffs, they have altered 1,514 diesel locomotives so that those of each line will be able to couple electrically with those of the other. They have plans under way to alter freight yards, lay necessary connecting tracks and mesh services at major passenger stations. Few of the plans involve improvements in service for hapless passengers. The only solution there, as far as most railroadmen are concerned...
Last week he returned from Bulgaria after closing a deal in which Krupp will equip and manage a $25 million synthetic fiber plant. Krupp also signed a contract recently to build a cement plant in Yugoslavia, has made a deal to sell diesel-powered fishing boats to Bulgaria, and is holding talks with the Polish, Hungarian and Rumanian governments about machine-tool and other plants...
...rail loss at $318 million; the actual loss will be more than that in the first ten months. And what a Toonerville Trolley it is-57% of the 27,000 miles of track is more than 40 years old and is in bad shape; 30% of the diesel locomotives are out of service; most passenger and freight cars are obsolete...
...Diesel-powered buses now stopping in Harvard Square begin today to use an underground tunnel as their terminal for a three month trial period...
...potential problem of running the buses underground has already been solved. Last January the State Department of Public Health approved the installation of catalytic mufflers on the diesel-powered buses. The special mufflers would prevent exhaust of noxious gases while the buses are underground...