Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lawsuits find their way to the Supreme Court. The results are often bizarre. In 1957 the nation's highest tribunal solemnly considered the claim of Railroad Engineer Boyd R. Ringhiser, who had been treating himself for constipation and then, unable to make it fast enough across a busy freight yard, relieved himself in a gondola car-where a load of steel plates suddenly shifted, crushing his leg. That same year, the Court took up the case of a ship's baker who had grabbed a sharp knife instead of a scoop to serve hard ice cream and lost...
...featherbedding." Last week-after two earlier U.S. presidential boards had wrestled with the problem-a congressionally appointed panel awarded the railroads a signal victory. In the first peacetime arbitration ever imposed by Congress, the board ruled that almost all of the 33,000 firemen who work aboard diesel-powered freight and yard trains are "not necessary" and should be gradually phased...
...mergers, and stall the railroads' drive for relief from high city and state taxes. Railroaders argue that their profit picture has been artificially brightened by the new 7% investment tax credit and liberalized depreciation rules, which together added more than $100 million to railroad earnings in 1962. Though freight revenues are running 2.5% ahead of 1962, railroaders also point out that passenger revenues will slide 4% this year (to $600 million) and that 24 big railroads are still...
...Shortage. But the fact is inescapable that the general expansion of the economy has raised earnings while better equipment has lowered costs. In Midwestern harvest areas, the railroads need 12,000 more cars than they have to carry the load. At the same time, such innovations as larger freight cars, more powerful locomotives and automated yards are enabling the railroads to win back much of the market lost to truckers. Last month the Western Maryland and the Reading railroads showed off an electronic scale that can weigh individual cars in a moving train. By doing away with the need...
...inspectors had found Mikawa to be among the best-equipped mines in the country. The government could point out that the stretch of track where the collision occurred was equipped with modern safety devices-but they proved useless because the entire chain of events, from the derailment of the freight cars to the arrival of the third train, took less than 30 seconds...