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...might agree with the Hon. Hugh Scott that railway nationalization would not work in the U.S. [March 17], but reject his comment about the present state of the nationalized British railways. As an American who has spent two years in England, I find the rail service here without equal anywhere with the possible exception of Japan...
...Kuykendall -have signed on as advisers to the Department of Transportation. Baker, 59, who was a member of the House Public Works Committee, will earn $36,000 a year lobbying for the department among his former colleagues. Kuykendall, 50, who helped write the legislation creating the U.S. Railway Association, will offer part-time advice on how to put the plan into operation...
Recommendations in the report of the U.S. Railway Association [March 10] will produce more jobs for Pennsylvania because they call for widespread track upgrading for which Pennsylvania will be the major steel supplier-and this is indeed good news. However, I regret that U.S.R.A. calls also for an inordinately large abandonment of trackage that should and must be preserved...
...Railway Association also proposed 16 new or improved passenger routes between Northeastern and Midwestern cities. Between New York and Washington, for example, all freight traffic would be removed from the main Penn Central line to track now owned by other companies in order to make way for speedier, more frequent passenger service. New trains would make the 224-mile run in 2½ hr.-30 min. faster than the present Metroliners. The alternative to its plan, says the association, is nationalization of the seven roads that Conrail would...
...last week that the proposal was "utterly unacceptable" because of the routes that would be abandoned. The prospects are for a long, politically charged struggle over Conrail and, while it continues, more infusions of the taxpayers' money into the sick Northeastern railroads. In the same day that the Railway Association presented its proposal, the Senate voted emergency financial aid for the Penn Central and other roads for the third time since 1970. The package: $347 million in grants and loan guarantees...