Word: dieselization
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...clock one bitter cold morning in Chicago last week, a deafening din arose from the Illinois Central Railroad's yards. Whistles shrieked, bells clanged, diesel engines blatted their air horns like dying cows. From a smoke-grimed overpass, Illinois' Governor Adlai E. Stevenson, who had set off the bedlam by tugging the rope of an old dismantled locomotive bell, cried gleefully: "There are a hundred trains here, and I bet every one of them is late!" Just as gleefully, Illinois Central's President Wayne Johnston cried back: "I'll bet they...
...enters the carburetor. Chief advantages: the gas sells for one-half the price of gasoline, burns completely, leaving no carbon, is odorless, and runs the motor more smoothly and quietly, requiring fewer changes of oil and less maintenance. Insurance companies consider propane engines as safe as diesel or gasoline...
With the five-year trusteeship drawing to a close at year's end, Chairman Crowley had good news for the home folks. The Milwaukee, he reported, was virtually a new railroad. In five years it has laid out $111.9 million for spanking new equipment: 159 diesel locomotives, 15,661 freight cars, 253 passenger cars-including the equipment of its streamlined, glass-domed crack limiteds, the Hiawathas...
...railroad-equipment field, Automan Budd cannily foresaw the end of the postwar rush for long-haul passenger cars, developed the Railway Diesel Car for economical passenger service for shorter runs. Thus, when the railway car market virtually vanished this year, Budd's foresight paid off: out of 18 passenger car orders placed with U.S. car builders this year, 16 are for Budd's new "RDCs...
...hustle of U.S. railroads to buy diesels, the Pennsylvania Railroad was highballing along faster than ever. Only last November it ordered 226 locomotives, costing $38 million, to give it the largest number of diesel locomotives (820) of any U.S. railroad (TiME, Nov. 21). Last week the Pennsy increased its lead even more, signed up for an additional 214 locomotives costing $55 million, the biggest diesel order on record...