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...their prized new rolling stock. Union Pacific blocked its main line 30 minutes at Green River, Wyo., while Vandivert photographed three different types of power plants used in mountain hauling. Southern Pacific trainmen, not to be outdone, tape-measured the 4,745-11. length of an 87-car piggyback freight train, laid out the same distance along California's San Luis Obispo horseshoe curve and carefully spotted the train for Vandivert's dramatic storytelling picture of piggyback hauling...
...always liked to hang around together at night. Sometimes we'd play the pinballs at the Spa, but usually we got kicked out. Then someone would say 'Let's take a walk' and pretty soon we'd end up down near the railroad tracks. Then, we'd hop a freight and clip a case of beer and get high...
...only a set of plans on the drawing board plus a wooden mockup, is a big, versatile, medium-range (up to 3,000 miles) airliner that will cruise at 420 m.p.h. Designed with a two-level, "double-bubble" fuselage, the Vanguard will be able to carry two tons of freight and mail on the lower deck and as many as 122 passengers on the top deck. T.C.A. will take delivery on its Vanguards in the fall and winter of 1960-61, retire or sell all its piston-engine planes, wind up with an airfleet composed entirely of jet-powered Viscounts...
RAIL INCOME SLUMP is stoking up demand for another freight rate hike. Despite rise in carloadings in 1956, higher costs trimmed net income of nation's Class 1 rails to $875 million, off $52 million from 1955. Eastern railways may ask the Interstate Commerce Commission for 15% rate boost on top of recent 7% emergency hike, Western railways for 17% raise in addition to recent 5% increase...
...FREIGHT combination service will be started by Greyhound Corp. To link 6,000 U.S. communities that do not have direct air freight, Greyhound will pick up and deliver packages of less than 100 Ibs. for nearest freight airport...