Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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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...
Early next morning, five miles from Newcomerstown, Ohio, trouble developed in the air brake system. In a murky fog, the troop train ground to a stop. Out of the early morning roared the Pennsylvania's crack twin diesel Spirit of St. Louis. The first unit of the diesel hurled the rear coach of the troop train in the air, sheared the second car to floor level, hurtled into a creek. The second unit derailed a third car. Two cars of the Spirit of St. Louis plunged from the track...
...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...
...shopping list are: 1) tractors and farm machinery to help boost the nation's agricultural output, 2) bulldozers and other heavy earth-moving equipment for power projects, to increase generating capacity from the present 2,100,000 kilowatts to 5,600,000 kilowatts in 1958, 3) diesel-electric locomotives, 4) heavy excavators, stripping shovels and other mechanized mining equipment, to raise the production of steel, building materials and coal. To get more workers, Australia, which is now squeezed by a manpower shortage, is opening her gates to 200,000 immigrants a year (3½% of its population...