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He introduced time-and labor-saving centralized traffic control, installed pushbutton freight yards and increased dieselization.

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Since the C. & O. is the nation's largest soft-coal hauler, its old-line brass assumed that their customers would not stand for dieselization.

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For the giant Pennsylvania Railroad, increasing dieselization, new maintenance shops, heavier coal and steel shipments added up to the best year in a decade.

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U.S. railroads, which last year spent $279,400,000 on dieselization and this year will spend as much more, had already gone a long way toward improving efficiency.

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It has spent $274 million on a huge dieselization program, now 92% complete, and is laying down 300 miles of new heavy track at a cost of $15 million.

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