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...special train . . . Reference to the ''engine backing slowly," however, may prompt some of the West's railfan enthusiasts to write you,* since the train was powered over the Sierra not by a backward-operating locomotive but by one of this company's powerful cab-ahead-type locomotives...
These 125-foot, 6,000-horsepower, 4-8-8-2 wheel arrangement, single expansion articulated engines, distinctive of this railroad, have an enclosed cab that puts enginemen right up front so they can see more easily what's around a curve. Smokestack at other end from cab could give the illusion of backward operation to one not familiar with this type locomotive...
Last week, in an unprecedented move, CAB threatened to put National out of business. It proposed to revoke National's franchise as a scheduled carrier and order it to sell its routes and equipment to Pan American, Delta and Eastern Air Lines. National was in the red-and traffic had fallen to such a point-that CAB questioned whether National was doing the job it should be doing...
...Even so, CAB may find it difficult to take away National's franchise. Baker could make a good case that CAB was being unnecessarily harsh. The grounding of the DC-6s had laid up his four newest planes last winter, and, until recently, when its air mail subsidies were upped, National had received the lowest (2½? a mile) rates in the industry. Baker has already enlisted the help of the governor of Florida, and the Miami Chamber of Commerce will fight CAB's proposal at the hearing Dec. 1. Even the strikers were worried at the prospect...
...Jack Reese wore his hat on the job, worked 16 hours a day trimming off Continental's fat (he cut costs $75,000 a month), and drumming up new business. In three months he lined up $5,000,000 worth of engine business from J. I. Case, Checker Cab, Sears, Roebuck and others. By the time war orders came in, he had Continental in such tiptop shape that it turned out $796 million worth of aircraft and truck engines...