Show OGDEN 4F STANDARD-EXAMINE- OGDEN UTAH SUNDAY MORNING s f - v IMPROVED SERVICE R FEB 25 1961 ' L ? Vs ' oves ? "While we had a revolution in transportation in the 50’s we don’t expect to stand still in the 60’s” That’s the shape of rail progress according to D W Tanner superintendent here of Southern Pacific’s Salt Lake Division covering SP rail operations in Utah and most of Nevada The railroad industry he points out is moving ahead in all its operations to produce increased efficiency meet rising costs and provide customers a wide range of new equipment and services to meet specific needs "We’ve revolutionized almost every phase of our operations” Tan- MKrtV ner declares In efforts to improve service he says Southern Pacific has invested one billion dollars in improvements since- World War II: ' one-thir- d for 2100 diesel locomotive units one-thifor 67000 new freight cars d and for line and facility improvements Centralized traffic control classification yards and use of electronic data processing equipment are among those advancements made in the 50’s to bring greater efficiency and a livelier tempo to daily operation of - rd one-thir- THIS CATTLE truck delivered to a Montana firm was biiilt by Williamsen Body & Equipment Co Ogden The truck provides 63 lineal feet of cattle load ' space or 143 lineal feet of load space for sheep or hogs 40-FOO- T THREE PLANTS IN REGION Custom-Desig- n Williamsen ' Body & Equipment Co with general offices and manufacturing plant in Ogden and plant in Salt Lake City and Pocatello has long been known as one of the West’s top manufacturers of truck bodies and trailers : Many of the Williamsen custom-desig- n units have become "standards” in the transportation industry Others specifically designed for special needs have branded the Williamsen firm as the firm to see when the job is unique and calls for a new and bold concept in engineering SERVICE AND REPAIR In recent years and particularly with the addition of a new plant at 1925 West Indiana in Salt Lake City the Williamsen organization has expanded its operations to include the service and repair of bodies and trailers The new plant completed last year to replace facilities that were inadequate for the firm’s expanding needs has equipment and facilities for every truck-traile- r service need from new unit installation or complete changeovers to the repair of electrical systems or hydraulic power sources Even bad-- one-of-a-ki- nd Firm Monufacf u res' Units for Trucks Included among the famous names handled by the firm are Perfection Hydraulic Hoists and Tail Gates Midland and Sealco Brake Equipment Braden Winches Prior Fuel Tanks and Holland 5th Wheels Williamsen is also the distributor for specialized bodies including Knap-hied- e Stake and Grain bodies for Service-mastfarm use McCabe-Power- s Bodies Boyertown Step Powers-America- n Vanes Utility Equipment Wayne School Buses and Strick Van Trailers The firm maintains a complete inventory of parts for nearly every trailer and truck body need at all er 4 well-equipp- ed DESIGNS BODIES But the firm’s principal recognition and the thing for which it is most noted is its design and manufacture of truck bodies and trailers Working with both aluminum and steel Williamsen builds a wide variety of units for every segment of the transportation field The- firm is particularly noted for their dump bodies from the smaller contractor and side type to giant for all dump tandem trailers aluminum flat beds for their unior steel cattle que trailers with elevator decks that enable the trailer to carry as many as four levels of sheep or hogs for their aluminum van bodies and for such standards as the smaller delivery bodies used by so many dairies bakeries and similiar firms for retail and home delivery throughout the Intermountain West So popular in fact are these locally manufactured truck bodies and trailers that they are now distributed in the midwest and throughout the Western states by 10 different firms in eight states This local firm has now turned out thousands and thousands of bodies and trailers and rarely will you travel any highway but what you will see a truck body or trailer with the familiar "Flying W” insignia - ! end-dum- m City Cemetery Plans Expansion Ogden’s city cemetery on 20th represents one of the larger city departments measured as to employes (17) revenue (an estimated $40000 this year) and in expenses $58000 in 1960) The cemetery will have 53 acres of developed land this year and officials plan to add six acres more ly damaged units can be completeDuring 1960 the workers planted ly rebuilt at a substantial saving 78 new trees and shrubs and the over the cost of salvage and re- figure for 1961 is 100 placement During 1960 346 markers and e This local blacksmith monuments were placed and 550 shop has become one of the West’s were reset Four hundred burials were relargest distributors of accessories for the transportation industry too corded at the cemetery in 1960 one-tim- three of the plants and skilled craftsmen can quickly handle every type of repair or replacement job 40-fo- ot fast-growi- ng ps radar-controll- ed Rail DO I? regress just a few years” Tanner says "is The competitive picture Tanner a fine example of how a' little in- says has shifted completely so genuity has produced a new type that the is between of service to hold and regain busi- the rail real competition and its whole as a industry ness for us” in the past two years he states railroads have made progressive reductions in transcontinental freight train schedules both eastward and westward One of the most encouraging developments on railroads according to Tanner is the new system of incentive rates which work to the mutual advantage of the railroad and the shipper By loading a car more heavily the shipper earns graduated rate reductions and the railroad saves by making two cars serve where perhaps three were required before The result is better utilization of today’s bigger stronger cars and in effect an increase in the available car supply Railroads as they face the 60’s are confronted by a number of challenges "Even the earnings of more successful roads are considerably less And than impressive” Tanner asserts "Southern Pacific for instance is earning only about 2 Vi per cent on its investment in transportation properties You can do that well by putting your money into a savtrains Tanner says ings account with little or no risk” The problem says Tanner is that CHEAPER FUELS railroads are mass carriers and research has pro- the capacity of the railroad plant duced a way of utilizing cheaper is not being utilized fully enough fuels for locomotives and the virto into play the low cost bring tual elimination of damage to fragile freight through use of SP’s transportation service of which the are inherently capable draft gear for freight railroads The the total interpercentage cars ' city ton miles ofof freight moved In addition Tanner states Southern Pacific iii the 50’s introduced by rail has been shrinking steadily and built many new freight cars to In 1930 it was 74 per cent By 1947 it had declined to 67 per cent TomeeCsp$cific shipper needs “Once freight cars were only of day the figure is 45 per cent it is a few standard types” he explains pointed out "One "Today we have a wide variety of share” reason for the shrinking Tanner declares "is that cars each especially suited to do we’re still burdened with regulacertain jobs to the greatest contions and restrictions that were venience and satisfaction of the established when railroads had a shippers This has brought on a virtual No transportation monopoly distribution-havin new task car big ing the right car available at other means had then been develthe right place at the right time” oped to move freight in any quan"However” he adds "our heavy tity” "We are still burdened by liminvestment in modern communicaitations as to rate making and we tions is enabling us to do the are delayed in disposing of services v job” One of the new cars for Example that have outlived their usefulness r is the box car developed Out of all this comes a tremendous and pioneered by SP The car is amount of needless waste cost of which must inevitably be passed ideally suited for mechanized load- on to the public And as it is ing of plywood and other lumber on the spiraling products because of a wide double- passed rates is toeffect of more divert and door arrangement But one of the freight more traffic1 to our competitors” doors presents a smooth surface when closed making it equally suitable for movement of other types of traffic new competitors CONSOLIDATION PLANS "A good part of the railroad in- of lower rates will come the in- creased traffic the railroads so urgently need” It is for this reason Tanner says that Southern Pacific applied to the Interstate v Commerce Commission for control through stock purchase erf the Western Pacific dustry has come to recognize this Under the proposal Western Pafact and as a result we see a cific would be maintained as a sepwidespread movement toward rail- arate entity with all its routes road consolidation and coordination gateways and traffic arrangements as a means of stripping the rail maintained SP and WP would preplant down to fighting trim” he serve existing connections at Ogstates "Resulting cost savings will den and Salt Lake City Tanner give the railroads an opportunity explained to hold their prices down and out Common control would permit ILW such coordination as enabling SP freight trains to operate over WP tracks between Flanigan and Weso Nevada saving 2Vz hours running time WP use of SP tracks between Sacramento and Oakland would save WP two hours The SP superintendent says he is quite optimistic about the 60’s "It appears that changes inside and outside the rail industry may help the railroads to reinforce their land surface position as low-cocarrier” he states "The time will corrie when regulation of railroads will be modernized so they can do the job of which they are capable” Out of continuing research and he concludes will development come improved motive power larger and better equipment and increased use of automatic devices and an expansion of services of which the present growth of piggyback is "only the beginning” st CO SP-sponso- hydra-cushio- n plug-doo- Among newest equipment is SP’s k a three-decframe which when mounted on a conventional piggyback rail car can handle 12 standard size automobiles or 15 compact models or a combination of trucks and autos One carries as many automobiles as three or four box cars and is easier to load and untri-lev- el Auto-Pac- k Ogden to Retire Debts by 1963 ' Ogden City’s general obligation bonds that are being repaid by tax levies against all properties show a total of only $396600 All this amount of money will be Auto-Pac- k paid off by the end of 1963 Repayment rates on these general obligation bonds are $13303671 load for this year $13081350 for 1962 "The fast growth of piggyback in and $132750 in 1963 ThU durable and acenamical 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