Competition in 1946 to Challenge Us, Says Pres. Metzman
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CENTRAL HEADLIGHT Vol. VII, No. 1 January, 1946 Competition in 1946 to Challenge Us, says Pres. Metzman Office of the President Ten World War II Veterans Become N. Y. Central Ticket Sellers New York, N. Y. December 20, 1945 To the Men and Women of the New York Central System: HE approaching year Tend will be an unusually significant one in the his• tory of our Company and of every New York Central employe. Behind us lies the War with its succession of remarkable transportation President Metzman records, achieved through notable service and devo• public well and with ex• tion on your part; ahead ceptional courtesy. lie our first 12 months of For these reasons I have Ten recently discharged veterans of World War II completed a week's course of instruction on December 8 to take part post-war peace and op• in the annual holiday ticket rush of business in Grand Central Terminal. Around the conference-school table, left to right, no doubt of the outcome. are Robert D. Symmes, John R. Mills, Edward P. Eustace, Edward G. Belhumber, Martin R. Kunze, George E. Yack, portunity. Each month, With everyone of us doing Passenger Traffic Department Instructor S. T. Keese, John M. Gale, Benjamin Powner, Joseph A. Harvey and George however, will be a chal• R. VanLouven. his best in cooperation lenge, for each will see us with his fellow workers, we facing steadily increasing will maintain our rank at competition from other the fore among the great $34,000,000 Sleeping Car Order Sets U. S. Record forms of transport. transportation systems of Meet this competition America. cost $56,000,000 we must and will — with My hearty thanks to you N.Y.C. Has 720 cars coming to all for your faithful service tainty that have long dis• in behalf of the public dur• Twenty-Two Sleeping Car Company, Chicago, of high tensile, low tinguished our efforts. Our alloy steel, with welded girder con• ing the year now closing. proven skills and ingenuity Trains and 30 New Daylight struction and will be painted in the To each and everyone, famous Century two-toned gray; 112 11 Half Century will put to the most pro• Streamliners Being Built I extend my best wishes for cars of stainless steel will be built by ductive uses the new and the Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Veterans Retire a Happy Christmas and Co., Philadelphia. The American Car better traffic and operat• The largest single order for passen• New Year. & Foundry Company will build 108 ger equipment in the history of Amer• Eleven New York Central men who ing practices developed in streamlined baggage, baggage-mail and have been in the Service of the Com• Sincerely, ican railroading was announced, De• recent years. We will util• railway postoffice cars. pany for 50 years or more were re• cember 13, by G. Metzman, President tired on pension at the end of the ize to the full the new cars of the New York Central System. The first of the new sleeping cars, embodying the most modern ideas in year. They were: and motive power, unex• The $34,000,000 order represents 22 safety, comfort and decoration, are ex• luxurious streamlined sleeping-car Barker, John A., Engineman, Buf• celled in the world, which pected to be ready next September. trains totaling 420 passenger cars of falo Division, 56 years, three months. Thereafter, they will come in a steady soon will be at our dis• new design. These are in addition to Foley, Henry M., Section Foreman, flow from the manufacturers until com• posal in large numbers. the 300 de luxe passenger cars already Hubbard, O., 55 years, five months. pletion of the order in March, 1947. under construction for Central's day• McCraney, Russell D., Office As• We will better our already As the new equipment is received, it time trains. sistant, Law Department, New York, will go into service on the 20th Cen• deserved reputation for 54 years, 11 months. New York Central's passenger equip• tury Limited, Commodore Vanderbilt, efficiency in serving the ment orders now total $56,000,000 Advance Commodore, Southwestern Nye, Allen M., General Agent, Pas• covering 720 cars or the equivalent of Limited, Detroiter, Wolverine, Cleve• senger Department, St. Paul, Minn., 52 new streamliners. land Limited, Iroquois, Ohio State 54 years. Each one of the sleeping cars will be Limited, New England States and the McCarthy, Francis J., Clerk-Teleg• L. A. Schroeder, Cleveland; W. E. in 1945, a gain of 536, or 71.56 percent. of the all-room type and will include Motor City Special. rapher, Green Island, New York, 53 Frackelton, Detroit and R. R. Spangen- In total number of members the the latest developments of the car Many of the new ideas, making for years, two months. berg, St. Louis. New York Associations at Grand Cen• builders' art in single rooms, double greater comfort and luxury in these Woods, William J., Engineman, The appointments were announced tral Terminal and 72d Street led the bedrooms and de luxe bedroom suites. cars, are the result of suggestions made P. & L. E., 52 years, 11 months. by E. E. Pierce, General Passenger field, with a total of 4,481, an increase The new-type dining cars, lounges and in response to questionnaires which Davis, Almon G., Clerk, Transporta• Agent, New York; H. C. Carson, Gen• of 650, or 16.97 percent. Second in observation cars have been planned by were distributed to New York Central's tion Department, Toledo, 52 years, six eral Passenger Agent, Chicago, and J. total memberships was Albany, with the Central's engineers and designers passengers on its principal trains dur• months. P. Corcoran, General Passenger Agent, 2,337, an increase of 236, or 11.23 in cooperation with the manufacturers' ing the war. Thus, as members of Cen• Brady, John F., Assistant to Foreign Cincinnati, respectively. percent. experts in these fields. tral's post-war plans committee, some Freight Traffic Manager, New York, Of the new order, 200 cars for sleep• 10,000 passengers helped design the Selkirk, with 1,508 members, showed 51 years, five months. ing car service will be built by the equipment of these record - making an increase of 148, or 10.88 percent; Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing orders. Wholihan, Edward J., Train Dis• West Detroit, with 638, gained 208, or patcher, Jackson, Mich., 51 years, two 48.77 percent; East Syracuse, with months. Elkhart "Y" is 1,017, reported a gain of 105, or 11.5 Hintz, Gustav H., Tugboat En• percent, Urbana, wih 248 members, a gineer, New York, 51 years, nine Tops in Contest gain of 39, or 18.66 percent, Gibson, months. with 206, gained 28, or 15.73 percent, Xmas Gifts from N. Y. Central to Campbell, with 716, gained 47, or 7.03 Esmay, Oakley, Brakeman, Mohawk percent and Newell had a gain of 5, or Division, 50 years, two months. to Win Members .76 percent. Employe Soldiers Going Forward The 1945 campaign to get new mem• bers for the Railroad Y.M.C.A.'s on Although Christmas has come and women who entered military service, Three Local Traffic the New York Central System, showed gone, the mailing of Yuletide gifts whether they since have returned to an increase of 12.59 percent in the from the New York Central System to Ends 46 Years' Work employment or are still not discharged Chiefs are Promoted number of members at the end of the all employes who entered the Armed from armed duty. campaign, compared with the contest A. W. Klothe, Joint Agent, Congers, Forces still is being carried on by the Three Assistant General Passenger Coupled with the slowness in gath• held the previous year. Total mem• N. Y., recently retired, after 46 years Personnel Department, New York City, Agents were promoted, December 1, to ering names and proper addresses has berships were 16,591, an increase of of service. as new names are belatedly received. also been some delay in obtaining ship• General Passenger Agents. They were, 1,856 over the comparable period for ments of the record cases; but the Per• The 1945 gift is a handsome leather 1944. sonnel Department gives assurance that service record case, specially designed the mailing will go on until the last The Elkhart, Indiana Association to keep and preserve discharge papers, The Founder Said: Chicagoans Return name is received. increased its members from 185 to 455, service records, medals, photographs an addition of 270, or 145.95 percent The Freight Traffic Department, and other mementoes, all of which will I don't think there is a man in the C. O. Parsons is now Local Freight and led in the contest. It was awarded Chicago, is happy to have back on the be more highly prized as years go by. I world who would go farther to Agent at Charleston, W. Va. Mr. Par• serve the public than I would." — the contest trophy. job Mark Stepelton, who was Cap• The gifts are being mailed out as sons previously was Agent at Point Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, in Next in percentage of gain was the tain in the Army Air Corps and verified names are received to the last- Pleasant and Alloy, W. Va., before go• 1866. Cleveland Association, whose members Clarence Rahn, Master Sergeant in known home addresses of all men anindg to Charleston. increased from 749 in 1944 to 1,285 the Medical Corps. 2 Central Headlight N. Y. C. Railroaders on Luzon— Two B. & A. Yard Clerks Still in Germany They Had to Do It the Hard Way By Sergt.