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. DALE KRAMER Link and Pin Railroading on Luzon Frightening From YANK — The Army Weekly STATESIDE railroadmen who boast of the rough days of the link and pin LUZON — For a good many years coupling are necessarily ancient, because that kind of railroading went the younger generation of railroaders out about 1900. Brakemen on the Manila line know the link and pin well. has held still while old-timers squirted Occasionally on a grade a link or pin broke, creating a situation which tobacco juice through their whiskers would have fitted handily into an old time Hairbreadth Harry melodrama and talked about the days when rail• or even a Keystone comedy. Except that it was deadly serious. roading was a man's game, before the Sometimes the cars which broke loose and started downgrade carried bombs new-fangled block signal systems and and high octane gasoline. Dispatchers sent frantic messages to stations on automatic feeders for locomotive the line below, and more than once trains were pulled off the main track onto boilers. sidings in the nick of time. — Sergt. Dale Kramer Well, they can shut up now. The soldier-railroaders who came in on the heels of the Infantry at Lingayen Gulf road before the war began to appear, and opened up the Manila line can Illinois Division Man and they brought with them shovels and picks and crowbars which they match anything the graybeards ever Stationed in Manila had to deal with and maybe more than had dug up. Their tools were their they could ever dream up. badges. The gandy foreman, S/Sergt. Metro Prydun of Hokendauqua, Pa., The men who came in at Lingayen At left, Corp. Robert D. Sleeper, of Westfield, Mass., who has been overseas who used to be a welder on the Mil• on D plus 4, some of them swimming 14 months and is now at Ogsburg, Germany. He saw service in Belgium, waukee Road, and S/Sergt. Glenn H. barrels of gasoline before them, are Germany and Czecho-Slovakia. At right is his brother, Corp. Dean C. Sleeper Conley of Dalton, Ga., an old Army of West Springfield, Mass., who has been overseas nine months and is now members of the 790th Railroad Oper• man who got his initiation as a rail• at Erlangen, Germany, just outside of Nuremburg. The boys, both of whom ating Company, commanded by Capt. roader with the 790th in New Cale• are fathers, are the sons of A. L Sleeper, B. & A. engineman. Richard V. Lae of Westfield, N. J. Its donia, split the Filipinos into gangs strength was 143 men and it had been and assigned them jobs. Sometimes activated in New Caledonia where for one of the sergeants talked a bull• tives off back sidings and out of sugar the train. Only thing the engineer can a while it operated a 25-mile French- dozer driver into coming over from a plantations. The Filipinos were the do is to pull back on the throttle and style railroad. The men had not yet highway to help on a particularly bad greatest hiders of things on earth, and try to knock him off the tracks. been under fire and members of the crater, but mostly it was plain back- sometimes they even concealed loco• various gangs had not had a chance to breaking hard labor. Presence of roving Jap bands made iron out operation wrinkles. There motives from the Japs. Near San Fer• life no easier. Sometimes a trainman were few tools and little replacement There was plenty of drama in the nando Pampanga they hid four to• would hear a sharp report which equipment. As soon as the company first major run. For two days the gether under a great bamboo arch registered for a moment in his dead- got ashore, it moved what gear it had 37th Division, fighting around Bay- covered with banana leaves. tired mind as a warning signal tor• ambang, 20 miles south of Dagupan, to the railroad yards at San Fabian, Some of the archaic engines turned pedo under the wheels. And then he had been without rations. Most of the dug in, cleaned up the yards, and up were woodburners with the "tea• would remember that they had no tor• newly repaired track was untested. began to take stock. pot" bulbous smoke stacks found in pedoes and finally it would dawn on Old 171 had been pulling and push• The Manila Railroad is narrow the States only in museums or Currier him that snipers were shooting at the ing cars around, but she was really gauge (42-inch compared with the & Ives prints. There were coal-burners, train. He would get as far out of untested, too, and so were the cars. sight as possible and keep going. What U.S. 56-inch gauge) and the main too, but they were not important as But the 790th got orders to haul a jangled the nerves worst were reports line runs up from Manila through Tar- such, since no coal was available. Fire• load of rations to the combat troops, of Jap forces heading toward the lac and San Fabian to San Fernando La men crammed wood endlessly into the and when the men learned the nature tracks, presumably either to cut them Union, a distance of 150 miles. The fireboxes. Wood cut especially for the of the run they felt good. or seize the train. There wasn't any idea was to push south from San Fa• purpose was green and sometimes it By this time the rims had been cut corny slogan such as, "The Train bian fast enough to supply the combat was necessary to tear down fences and off a jeep and 6x6 rims substituted Must Go Through," but nevertheless troops. Several transportation officers old houses for fuel. Every few miles so that the jeep became a motor rail that was the size of it. aside from the 790th's command had the engineer had to stop to blow up car. This was used to help switch the come in and they scoured the more or steam. For example, one night at Bayam- train together, and sometimes trucks less liberated areas for rolling stock. In modern railroading there is a bang the dispatcher heard of a band were brought onto the ties and they block system whereby colored lights of at least 200 Japs somewhere near First likely-looking locomotive dis- helped. The roundhouse and the shop Ralph L. Carter is now in Manila, inform the engineer of what is before the tracks. It seemed reasonable that covered was No. 171 Filipino guer- and car gangs checked their work care• where he has been stationed since and behind him. In opening up the they were interested in robbing sup• rillas when they heard of the Amer• March with the 749th Railway Oper• fully, if a little feverishly. They didn't Manila line, the engineers at night, plies or at least in wrecking the train. ican landings had sneaked aboard it ating Battalion. He was formerly a want that train to break down. usually did not know what was 20 feet The next train in was driven by T-5 at Dagupan, about 10 miles southwest fireman on the Illinois Division, on At the throttle when Old 171 ahead of them. They had no head• Leonard Judas of Waterloo, Iowa, for• of San Fabian, and drained the coco• which his father, Chester C. Carter, is an engineman. His wife and son, pulled out was T-4 Clarence (Pop) lights because the Japs had taken the merly a fireman for the Illinois Cen• nut oil which the Japs had been using 13 months old, live in East Alton, Ill. Markey of Detroit, for 20 years a fire• bulbs, and there were no switch lights. tral. Judas and the dispatcher called for fuel. Then they had stripped re• man and engineer on the New York Radio and telephone communications up a transportation colonel at San movable parts and buried them. Amer• Central. Other crewmen were Fire• were either nonexistent or spotty. The Fabian. The colonel said to highball ican bombings shook the locomotive man Pvt. William Rosenbaum of Ham• cars had no airbrakes and sometimes it through. badly and everything was loose and tened them, and cut out the washers. mond, Ind., former Pennsylvania Rail• the engines themselves had no brakes. With Judas were fireman T-5 James leaky. Sometimes a member of the round• road man; Brakeman T-5 Bernard At one point the tracks swing around Ashworth of Minoa, N. Y., formerly The foreman of the roundhouse house or shop gangs lay down on a Fallon of Buffalo, N. Y., who was a curve onto a bridge. Trainmen mak• of the New York Central; brakeman gang, S/Sergt. Charles Kelly of Union greasy cot for a quick nap. But not employed by the Lehigh Valley road; ing that curve held their hearts in Pvt. Maher, and conductor T-5 Ivan City, N. J., who spent a couple of dec• often. They worked practically straight and Conductor Sergt. Ford Dickerson their mouths. If the bridge were out, Anderson of Miagna, Utah, who ades on the New York Central, was through. And Old 171 had steam up of Crookston, Minn., old Milwaukee nothing on earth could have pre• learned railroading in New Caledonia. called in by a transportation colonel and moved in less than two days. She RR man. The conductor on a freight vented the train from plunging into Between them they had three .45s and to look No. 171 over. In the 790th's didn't move far — but she moved. train is responsible for cargo. the river. And the Japs have certainly a carbine. Only two guerrilla guards legend the locomotive has become Meanwhile the car shop gang, Markey nursed Old 171 watchfully been known to blow up bridges. were aboard. "Old Hundred and Seventy One," headed by Sergt. Frank Hibma of Chi• over the untested track. Nosing ahead Stateside railroadmen who boast of even though alongside of some of the Judas put on all the speed he dared. cago, formerly employed by the Chi• of the engine in the event of land the rough days of the link and pin wood-burning teapots turned up later That had its advantages if the Japs cago Freight Car Parts Co., was work• mines were two empty cars. Recently coupling are necessarily ancient, be• and, put into use on Luzon, she is tried with a boarding party, but it was ing the same kind of hours putting repaired bridges creaked and settled cause that kind of railroading went almost modern. At least she is an oil- not so good if they had torn or blown freight cars into shape. The Japs were under the heavy load. Each man was out about 1900. Brakemen on the burner. up the tracks. Fortunately nothing the original hot-box kids. A hot box far too intent on operation of the Manila line know the link and pin happened outside some scattered rifle Kelly figured that if he had Old develops when one of the bearings train to worry about snipers who well. The heavy iron rectangular link fire. The Japs were not very good 171 in a well-equipped roundhouse which rest on the journals (axle-ends) might be hidden in the trees or long is about a foot long and the brake- shots and the roving bands were she could be put into reasonably of a car gets overheated. To keep grass beside the track. man guides it into a slot as the cars strangely ineffective as saboteurs. But good shape in maybe a couple of ilown friction, a coating of babbitt is And then they came up with the come together and at the proper mo• the constant threat helped to keep weeks. The colonel said he wanted her poured over the bearing and the whole infantry, and the infantrymen saw the ment drops a big iron pin through the nerves ragged. running in two days. Kelly has been journal box is packed with oil-satu• rations and gave the V-sign and link. Not only does this trick — a Some of the tougher pressure eased in the Army four years. He said, rated waste to insure constant lubrica• cheered the railroadmen. For Markey famous finger clipper — require pre• off as new, well-equipped outfits came "Yes, sir." tion. The Japs didn't replace worn and his crew, and for the rest of the cision, but it demands presence of in. The road into Manila was cleared The roundhouse gang went to work. babbitt, they used burlap and coco• 790th when they heard about it, that the brakeman in an intimate space and the Manila yards cleared up and Lacking proper welding equipment, nut husk for waste, and they allotted was payoff enough. between the cars. It is a particularly the road to the south and branch lines they talked an engineering outfit into very little lubricating oil to the trains. difficult maneuver with a carbine across In a way, the very early days were opened. sending over some help. For fuel they When a car got a hot box, they set the back. easiest because of the newness and ex• scouted for bulldozer Diesel oil and it aside and forgot about it. The car The hell-roaring days ended, but citement. In time it was just the hard• Occasionally on a grade a link or cylinder oil to thin it. They patched shop gang had to repour babbitt and because of the old age of the equip• est drudgery under the same kind of pin broke, creating a situation which up the boiler, found a garden hose, sometimes to make new brass bear• ment and the demand for more and pressure. One of the things Stateside would have fitted handily into an old attached it to a faucet and stuck the ings. The 105 shell casings came in more tonnage there will always be graybeards like to talk about is "out• time Hairbreadth Harry melodrama nozzle in the boiler and turned it on, handy for bearing making. plenty of the frontier in railroading on lawing," which is the Interstate Com• or even a Keystone comedy. Except figuring at least a day would be re• the Manila line. And the gandy dancers with their merce Commission's rule that no rail• that it was deadly serious. Sometimes quired to fill the boiler. picks and shovels and crowbars had road men shall work 16 hours at a the cars which broke loose and started The Filipinos began to show up set out along the tracks to repair the stretch, even if it means halting a train downgrade carried bombs and high with sabotaged parts. Others were roadbed. They traveled afoot. In many in the middle of a desert. There octane gasoline. Dispatchers sent fran• Buffalo Claim Man, found elsewhere. But many of them ways the gandies had it tougher than wasn't a 16-hour outlaw on the Manila tic messages to stations on the line were worn out or ruined by bomb• anybody, for they were good targets line and there wasn't a 24-hour outlaw. below, and more than once trains Retiring, Given Watch for snipers. ings. Replacements had to be shop Once a 30-hour run was made by en• were pulled off the main track onto J. Henry Crawford, Personal Injury made — out of nothing. Rails were sprung and sometimes gineer Pfc. Douglas Watson of Prince• sidings in the nick of time. Claim Agent at Buffalo, has retired, ton, N. J., and brakeman Pvt. Michael The shop gang, foremanned by bomb craters the size of the basement One neat trick GI brakemen learned after forty-five years with the Com• Maher of Uhrichsville, Ohio, both for• Corp. Joe Kartyre, who used to work of a house had cut the right of way. from Filipino railroaders: When a pany. He entered the service in mer Pennsylvania RR employees, and as a machinist for the R. K. LeBlond To get ties and spikes and rails, the hot box develops, fresh carabao ma• November of 1900, and worked in a crew of Filipinos. That was the Engineering Co. in Cincinnati, set up gandies had to tear up sidings. They nure packed into it will cool it off Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Cleve• record, but not by too far. If the ICC their two lathes in the basement of a carried very little food because it was sufficiently to allow the car to be land and Kalamazoo. hard to transport. At first they tried had been around, it could have seen battered house. They scrounged scraps hauled into the next station. Carabaos He was given a luncheon, followed to maintain a perimeter guard at night its outlaw broken every day. of metal to turn into parts. Even bolts are not always so helpful, however. by a reception, at the Hotel Statler. but it was too tough after the day's had to be made. Biggest demand of Before long the roundhouse and The Japs took off the cow, or carabao, Frank J. Funk, District Claim Agent, work and they gave it up and took all was for brass washers. Fortunately, shop gangs appreciated the compara• catchers for scraps, and consequently Buffalo, presided. Mr. Crawford was their chances. a battery of 105s was firing just across tively fine running condition in which a carabao on the tracks is a real men• presented a wrist watch and certificates the street. The shopmen went over and Fortunately, Filipino section hands Old 171 had been found. They began ace. Hit the carabao easy and he falls of service by Herbert L. Hanson, picked up the brass shell casings, flat- who had been employed by the rail- to pull strange and decrepit locomo- under the wheels and maybe derails Assistant General Claims Attorney. Central Headlight 3

Brossart Speaks 9 H. G. Hoff, Asst. Engine Terminal Foreman, Buffalo, Ending 49 Years Service, Is Guest at Dinner and At Albany Dinner Receives $1000 Gift J. A. Brossart, Assistant to Genera) Superintendent, Rolling Stock, was the principal speaker at a recent dinner of the West Albany Car Shops Super• visors, given in honor of three of its members, F. H. Peck, Foreman, and H. W. Fox, Assistant Foreman, who retired, and Joseph Michne, transferred to the New York office of the Superintendent of Equipment, Lines East. Each of the three honor guests was presented with a purse by C. H. Mendler, Shop Superin• tendent. Talks were given by G. J. Flanagan, General Car Inspector, and I. W. Martin, Superintendent, Loco• motive Shops. J. F. Kneiper, Assistant Foreman. Seated, left to right: P. J. Boyle, Fuel Supervisor; C. F. Burns, Assistant Master W. P. Kendall, J. Koch, L. J. Hassett, J. Harkins, W. Fish, R. Hicks, J. J. Electric Shop, presided and entertain• Mechanic; J. Singer, Master Mechanic; H. S. Hoff, Retiring; M. W. Hassett, O'Brien, F. Butler, G. Schlemmer, F. Blanchard, A. Vitaro, G. Buell, W. Toastmaster; G. E. Kern, Master Mechanic, Albany; W. W. Weidell, Retired Mitten, E. Tehan, H. Smith, W. T. McNulty, W. Hartman, C. J. Argus, G. H. ment was given by artists from radio Road Foreman; J. L Duff, Retired Assistant Chief Clerk, and G. H. Bulger, West, E. F. Abriel and G. Miller. station WYRY, Troy, and H. A. Vine. Mechanical Examiner. Others in the group include: C. E. Tehan, A. Seeger, Albany, magician.

Bataan Death March Survivor, Hudson Division Back from War, 9 Railroaders Brother Paints Locomotive Scene Man, Honored at Dinner Sees New Baby-

A painter with railroading in his fam• ily tradition won an honorable mention Lance F. Achilli, Hudson Division award at the 32nd annual exhibition Brakeman, recently was expected back of the Allied Artists of America held from Germany where he operated a above, left to right, first row, are recently at New York Historical 20-mile railroad between Karlsfeld B. & B. Department, Hudson Division, Charles The Howroyd, Hudson Division and Munich, holding tall titles from gen• Society, New York City. water was honored at a dinner by a throng Conductor, Master of Ceremonies; eral superintendent to track foreman. color, above, viewed by a fair visitor, of Central employes November 28 at Charles Pietropolo, a brother, extra He entered the Army March 10, 1942, was painted at the Beaver Falls, Pa., Smith Brothers' Restaurant, Poughkeep• Engineman and Fireman on Hudson and accumulated 70 points toward his sie N. Y., upon his return after three round house of the P. & L. E. by Division, and Corp. Pietropolo, who discharge. His return is made happy years of hardships as a prisoner of the will return to work upon his discharge. by the first sight of an infant girl, Robert E. Dodds, a teacher of art at Japs. Top row: George Auer, Division Engi• born during his absence and which Davis High School, Mount Vernon, He joined the 803rd Aviation Engi• neer, Eastern Division; I. Vosburgh, weighed only two pounds at birth. His N. Y. Two brothers, William G. Dodds, neers in 1941, fought on Bataan and Supervisor, B. & B., Eastern Division; father is also a Hudson Division Engineman, and James M. Dodds, was captured on Corregidor. He sur• and Elwood Brower, Painter Foreman, trainman. vived the infamous Death March, was B. & B., chairman of dinner. Corp. Assistant Supervisor, Maintenance of a prisoner in the Philippines one year, Pietropolo was presented with a watch Way, at Youngstown, O., work on the and purse by F. M. Doren, Mayor of then was shifted to Japan, where he P. & L. E. worked in the coal mines for the next Poughkeepsie and Freight Agent of and in China as an intelligence officer. two years until liberation. Shown New York Central. Lieut. Miller was on the staff of the Commander of Cruiser Division 15 and of the Commander of the Yangtze Patrol Forces. Bronze Star Winner, Major A. J. Serieno of DeWitt, Lieut. E. M. Miller employe of the Claim Department at Snapped in Italy Buffalo, recently was returned to in• Returns from China active duty status with the Navy, Lieut. Edwin M. Miller, furloughed after 40 months' service in Borneo Be Sure that Match is out!

Niagara Falls Veterans Form Local Organization

Major Serieno, furloughed Foreman at DeWitt Engine House, won his award for achievement with the 774th Railway Grand Division, Transportation Corps, in Italy.

Standing, T. Rodgers, Frank Scherber, M. Gorman, Fred Scherber and J. J. E. DeFreest Feted Margaret Smith Retires Mahoney. Sitting, C. Rommel, C. Goodsell, Mrs. Ella Connell and W. James E. DeFreest, General Fore• McMahon. Effective January 1 Miss Margaret man, Car Shop at Watertown for Smith, Secretary to the General Yard- For the first time in quite a num• affiliated with the Buffalo Society. Johnson, Car Department, J. Han- three years, was guest at a party master at East Buffalo Yard, retired ber of years, retiring employes at The following officers were elected: non (retired), Board of Governors, given by 100 associates recently. after a long term of service. Niagara Falls recently were tendered M. R. Dwyer, Superintendent, Hon• two years; S. Britton, Stores, J. Maday, C. G. Johnson of Buffalo spoke and a banquet attended by 150. This affair orary President; R. C. Matott, Car Transportation, F. Bax, Maintenance Irving B. Topping presided. Mr. De• She started at East Buffalo Yard in was undertaken by a group composed Department, President; F. Harvey, Freest received a gift. of Way, F. Hamscher, Motive Power, 1906, after having worked a few years of men in the different departments. Motive Power, Vice President; N. A. Mr. DeFreest left Watertown for Board of Governors, 1 year. on the Lehigh Valley at Buffalo. She From this Committee grew the idea Stark, Transportation, Treasurer; E. M. Buffalo to become General Car Fore• of starting a local Veterans' Organ• O'Connor, Freight, Secretary; C. Joyce, Dues are $1 per year. Plans are man there. He was succeeded by L. M. was popular with the employes of the ization. Heretofore, Niagara Falls was Motive Power, L. Ferrel, Freight, R. E. in the making for a busy year. Oliver, formerly of Albany. East Buffalo Yard territory. 4 Central Headlight New York and Line East

War Memorial Chimes Dinner for Wardwell, The Real Works Behind G. C. Terminal's 1000 Clocks Transferred to Buffalo Now on G.C.T. Orgatron — Jacob Bachtold Himself W. C. Wardwell, Ohio Central Di• vision Master Mechanic, recently trans• Christmas season was observed in ferred to Buffalo as Master Mechanic, Grand Central Terminal in a series of was feted at a dinner held at the new daily programs of Christmas carols Seneca Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, De• and traditional music of the year-end cember 1. holidays which began December 15 J. H. Spooner, Superintendent, was and were appreciatively heard by hun• Toastmaster and among those present dreds of thousands of railroad patrons. were R. C. Cross, Superintendent of The programs were directed by Mary Equipment at Cleveland; E. J. Gib• Lee Read at the Orgatron. bons, Superintendent at Toledo; L. A. A set of memorial chimes, dedi• Champ, Superintendent at Springfield; cated to the fallen World War II J. W. Crowley, Assistant Superintend• heroes of both the New York Central ent at Columbus; J. M. Raine, Assist• and the New York, New Haven & ant Superintendent at Rainelle; H. D. Hartford, was featured in the music Abernathy, Assistant Signal Engineer of the season. The Chimes, consisting at Cleveland; J. E. Chandler, Master of 25 bells, the first set made in four Mechanic at Cleveland; S. Kuhn, Mas• years, were recently installed in the ter Mechanic, Columbus, and 200 O. Orgatron to add their beautiful solo C. employes and friends. effects in the music played. Mr. Wardwell was presented with a . The N. Y. C. Manhattan A.A. Glee standard railroad watch and a purse. Club, numbering 50 voices, presented its program December 20, singing Adeste Fidelis, The First Noel, Hark Victory Garden The Herald Angels Sing, O Little Award to N.Y.C. Town Of Bethlehem and Silent Night. The choristers were under the direc• Lester J. Norris, Chairman of the tion of Edward L. Fletcher. Milton Committee on Awards of the National Aldrich was accompanist. Victory Garden Institute, New York, last month informed E. J. Leenhouts, On December 18 the Glee Club held General Agricultural Representative an "open house" of Christmas carol New York Central System, that the singing in the recreation room of 466 System had once more been awarded Lexington Avenue, attended by many the Victory Garden Institute placque, employes in the Terminal district. in recognition of its record in encour• aging victory gardens and home food preservation. Two Vets Return This is the highest award of the With Purple Hearts Institute. It is the third time it has been won by the Central. Two furloughed employes, Private Frederick Pittman, of Buffalo, and T/Sergt. Sigmund J. Peplowski, of N.Y. Police Ball, Feb. 8 Albany, recently returned from over• The 18th annual ball of the New seas with Purple Heart decorations. York and New Jersey Railroads Ter• At last reports, they were at Fort minal Police Association will be held Oglethorpe, Ga., a redistribution sta• in the Hotel Pennsylvania's roof gar• tion, awaiting new assignments in the den Friday evening, February 8, and United States. will be the first held by the Associa• Pittman served 10 months in Eng• tion since 1942. land, Belgium, Holland and Germany Lieut. C. F. Brandowitz of the New with the Fie1 J Artillery and Peplowski York Central Police is Chairman of the had 28 months' service in Africa, entertainment committee. Tickets may Sicily, Italy and Germany as a Medic. be obtained from him at 504 West He wears the Distinguished Unit 110th Street. Music will be by the Badge and Meritorious Citation In• 1 band headed by Phi Pignatelli, "the signia. 33d Street Brakeman," known in the musical world as Phil Young, orches• East Buffalo Shop tra leader. Employes Retired Jacob Bachtold, Clock Master of Grand Central Terminal, makes a minor adjustment of the minute hand on one of Frank Streichan, Air Brake and Paint Section Foreman Retires the faces of the famous golden clock over the Information Booth, Upper Level. The Information Clerks who can be Foreman, East Buffalo Car Shops, re• James L. Frederick, Section Foreman tired after 43 years of service, all at seen in the photo are, left to right, Ray Tristram, Paul Johnston and Stanley Seymour. at Voorheesville, N. Y., was guest of these shops. THE real works behind the 1,000 Electric Division — at Harmon on the minal, Jake keeps especially accurate honor at a dinner at the Harris House, After remarks by Shop Superintend• clocks at Grand Central Terminal, Main Line and at White Plains on the because it is the arbiter of many a Voorheesville, N. Y., upon his recent ent C. N. Kittle, in the presence of retirement. Mr. Frederick had been an where time is an immutable law dis• Harlem Division. He often catches a possible argument between a late com• fellow workers, General Foreman H. employe of the Maintenance of Way patching trains on the precise second train out to these points to fix im• muter and a gateman who has just H. Jaeger presented him with a purse. Department for 41 years. and shutting gates in the path of portant clocks that cannot be removed slammed shut a train gate. When a He was presented with a leather Mr. Streichan will leave Buffalo to sprinting commuters, is Jake — Jacob for any length of time; but others are frustrated commuter begins to wind wallet and a sum of money. reside in Los Angeles, with his daugh• Bachtold — Clockmaster of the Ter• sent into his workshop in the Ter• up about shutting the gate early, the Two other pensioners, M. Aldi and ter and son-in-law. minal for the past 42 years. minal with a simple note: "Jake, this gateman merely has to point to the J. Pettinger, former associates of Mr. Albert J. Brombacker, Clerk, at East darn thing keeps losing a minute a golden clock. Its graceful form framed As the minion of his master, Time, Frederick, attended. Buffalo Car Shops, retired after 44 Jake makes a daily tour of inspection, day." in highly-polished brass, this famous years of service. Mondays through Saturdays, to all the The most important clocks under clock carries a prestige and authority Mr. Brombacker entered service Oc• principal seventy-five clocks of the Ter• Jake's care are the Chief Dispatcher's which is never questioned. Worked on Atomic tober 8, 1901 in the capacity of Ship• minal which lay down the law to Master Clock, the great clock over Jake was born in Schaffhausen, Bomb Project ping Clerk, Stores Department. He was intending train-catchers. The tour also Park Avenue on the facade of the Switzerland, and got his first job as presented with a purse by Chief Clerk takes him behind the scenes into the Terminal and the golden four-faced a helper in a local watchmaker's shop Frank J. Hausner. offices of the railroad operating de• clock atop the Information Booth on at the age of 12. When he was 16 Mr. Brombacker is a veteran of the partments, where clocks govern the the Upper Level of the Terminal. he became an apprentice and at the age of 23 he left Switzerland for the Spanish American War. dispatching of trains and crews. Jake checks the Master Clock several land of opportunity. Within a day, on Jake makes this tour with his own times a day, for this clock, above all landing at New York City, he had a prized pocket watch in hand, covering others, must be always on the second. job with the Wittnauer Watch Com• One Gold Star the almost three miles in an hour, Once an hour it automatically sets pany, Maiden Lane. On War Honor Roll including short stops for minor ad• every other electric clock in the Ter• Three years later he entered the At Suspension Bridge justments to erring timepieces. minal and is set itself by a wire from Western Union twice a day. It is this service of the New York Central at Jake is mild-mannered, with a Grand Central Terminal, where he has shaggy mane of sparse white hair and clock which all train schedules must obey. been ever since, seeing the number blue eyes peering through thick lensed of clocks under his care grow in glasses, a casualty of his profession. The Park Avenue clock gets Jake's number from 200 to 1,000. They take At 68, his right hand shakes just a careful attention twice a week. He up his full time now, but in the early slight bit now and is the reason, reaches this clock by climbing several days he worked during spare time in• besides saving his eyesight further ladders to a platform where he keeps stalling electric wiring in the Terminal, strain, that he has given up repairing tools and oil for this special job, which was then under construction. watches at home in spare hours. which consists of cleaning and oiling Jake is married and lives in Brooklyn. He has approximately 1,000 clocks the great mechanism and leaning out He arrives at work sharp at 8:15 a.m. under his care located in the Terminal windows in the clock to tighten screws and begins his day immediately he and its office building and in stations and clean the strained glass face. steps from the subway by glancing and signal stations and offices as far as The golden four-faced clock in the critically at the clock above the stairs the limits of the New York Central's Main Concourse, Grand Central Ter• from the East Side IRT. T/4 Richard J. Power, son of Edgar P. Power, who has been with the New York Central Railroad in Watertown, Syracuse Freight Man enemy ammunition depots, barbed N. Y., since 1906, was recently dis• Back from War wire obstruction, tank, traps and charged from the Army. Sergt. Power 60 Years' Service road blocks in France, Belgium, Lux• was first stationed at Camp Sibert, Charles H. Moosbrugger, who en• embourg and Germany. Ala., with the Chemical Warfare For DeWitt Man Forces. Later he studied under the tered the service of the New York A. S. T. P. program at Virginia Poly• Central as a freight brakeman on the technic Institute, where he received his Henry Frazier Martineau, 77, Syracuse Division December 7, 1941, B.S. in Chemical Engineering. He was and who enlisted in the armed forces Engineman at DeWitt Yards, re• Kuhn in Columbus then assigned to the Army Engineers tired November 21, after 60 years at Santa Fe, where he worked in the March 17, 1942, recently returned to S. Kuhn, Assistant to General Super• Leading the Honor Roll at the Car civilian life. of Service. secret Los Alamos Laboratory on the Shop, Suspension Bridge, N. Y., is the intendent of Motive Power and Roll• Atomic Bomb Project. Sergt. Power name of William H. Dineen, Car In• He did bridge repairing under fire He was born August 26, 1868, ing Stock, New York, has been ap• was formerly a chemist with the Dia• spector, who was a member of the and also worked as a member of a at Lindonville, N. Y. pointed Master Mechanic of the Ohio mond Match Co. and is now teaching crew of the U.S.S. Hood when it was combat demolition team accomplishing Central Division, at Columbus, effec• science in St. Mary's High School and lost in the South Pacific. destruction of pill boxes, mines, tive December 1. Wadham's College, Ogdensburg, N.Y. New York and Line East—General Central Headlight 5

Major Nuffer Wins Cleveland Yeoman Snapped in Berlin Awards, One British

HEADQUARTERS, TRANSPOR• TATION CORPS, PARIS — Major George A. Nuffer, Jr., a former trav• eling agent for the New York Cen• tral Railroad at Syracuse, has received the U. S. Army's Legion of Merit and the British decoration, Member of the British Empire. His Legion of Merit was awarded "for meritorious service as Chief, Pas• senger Branch, Office of Chief of Transportation from January 1, 1945, to July 31, 1945." The citation says: "Major Nuffer was responsible for the direction and supervision of all Theater troop movements by surface transportation, which resulted in suc• cessful movement of all troops, despite manifold difficulties, in full support of tactical requirements and subse• quently in redeployment, evacuation of wounded, movement of Prisoners of War and Recovered Allied Military Personnel and establishment of leave program rail schedules." The Member of the British Empire was awarded to him for maintaining close liaison with the British War Office during 23 months of service in Thomas D. Kochenderfer, Yeoman l/c, is shown with a German policeman, England, before coming to the Con• standing before the famous, bomb-damaged Brandenburger Tor, checking a tinent. section map of Berlin. Kochenderfer, who recently returned to his former position as a clerk in P. L. Frerick's Office, Cleveland Union Terminals Company, Major Nuffer came overseas in was one of the relatively few Naval personnel stationed in Berlin as part of June, 1942, as a staff sergeant, and the Naval Division of the U. S. Group Control Council for Germany. was assigned to the Passenger Branch as its chief clerk. He later received a direct commission. He was previously awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his handling of passenger requirements for cross-channel movements during the build-up following the invasion in 1944.

The New York Central Program Council at Collinwood co-sponsored with the Railroad YMCA two baseball teams, fourteen bowling teams and a City League basketball team, during 1945. Two successful dances and one picnic were also sponsored, but the highlight of the social gatherings was the Christ• mas Party, which was held on Saturday, December 8. Three hundred children Recent Deaths were made happy by Santa Claus, after which dancing and cards were, enjoyed by about 700 employes and their friends. At the end of the first year the Collinwood Program Council has about 1000 employes on the mem• Hayes, T. J., 73, retired Superintendent. bership rolls and the officers feel that they have laid a good ground work Ohio Division, in Bellefontaine. Mr. for 1946. The committee has been voted a rousing 'thank you.' Election of Hayes, who had been a Division Su• the Board of Directors was held Dec. 12. Election of officers will be in January. perintendent for almost 30 years and a railroader for 53 years, retired De• cember 31, 1942.

vember, 1945, saw service in the Syms, John V., 59, Chief Clerk to Divi• New York Freight Burma-India area. He wears a Presi• sion Engineer, Buffalo Division, at dential Citation together with an Utica, after a short illness. He had Asiatic-Pacific ribbon with three battle been with the Central since 1904. Veterans Return stars. Edward J. Mahoney—"Eddie" was Burkhart, Joseph, 57, Freight Agent at The personnel of the General a "Doughboy" who entered service in Charlestown, W. Va., after an illness Freight Office, New York, say they of several weeks. He was formerly October, 1942. He went overseas with Mr. and Mrs. H. Swanson of Elkhart, Indiana, and Joe Kelly, National are proud of 25 fellow workers in the A. the 29th Infantry Division and served Chief Supervising Agent for the Ohio Barn Dance favorite, had their cake and ate it too, at the Alka-Seltzer service of our country and have wel• in both the 115th Infantry and the Central Division and also Agent at National Barn Dance Railroad Men's Party recently. Mr. Swanson is a New comed the following who, having 121st Combat Engineering Battalion. Bowling Green. York Central engineman. done their bit, have returned to the He was overseas for two years during office: Dyas, John F., retired General Agent, which time he saw service in Eng• Passenger Department, Omaha, in that Vincent J. Curry—"Bud" entered land, France and Germany. He was Colonel Snow returned to this coun• city. Mr. Dyas who had been in Columbus A. A. the Army on January 15, 1943, and awarded the "Silver Star" at St. Lo try in September and is now Assistant Omaha 24 years, retired December 1, after completing a nine-month A.S.T.P. in the battle of Normandy. He also Elects New Officers General Freight Agent at Boston. 1942. He had been ill since his re• Engineering course at Penn State, he wears the Purple Heart, having been tirement. was assigned to the 320th Combat wounded in the Rhineland. In addi• The New York Central Athletic As• Engineering Battalion of the 95th tion, he has a Presidential Citation sociation of Columbus, Ohio, recently Lochmuller, Henry D., 73, retired As• Still in LeHavre Division. He saw service in England, with Cluster, an Arrowhead for par• elected the following: sistant to General Auditor-Disburse• France and Germany, having 45 con• ticipating in the invasion and five President, Ben Southerland, Pas• ments, in New York. He retired De• secutive combat days. He was wounded Battle Stars. He is credited with ap• senger Brakeman; First Vice President, Shown, left, i s ^ cember 31, 1941, after 53 years' serv• Lieut. Col. H. F. by mortar fire in the assault on the proximately 300 days of combat. He C. C. Sampson, Division Freight Agent; ice in the Accounting Department. Two Neville, formerly Fortress City of Metz. After spend• was discharged in October. Second Vice President, Robena Flem• trainmaster for Nev ing considerable time in hospitals in sisters survive. Norman F. Roe — He entered the ing, Clerk, Office Superintendent; Sec• York Central Rail France and England, he was dis• Merchant Marine in October, 1943. retary, H. E. Tarleton, Assistant Chief road at Suspensio charged from Camp Upton Convales• After attending school at Hoffman Clerk; Treasurer, H. B. Haspeslagh, Bridge, who ha cent Hospital in September 1945. In Island, he was assigned to a cargo ship Clerk, Office Master Mechanic; Direc• been serving i addition to the Purple Heart, he has as an Able Seaman. This cargo ship Now in Austria tors, H. R. Tilton, Conductor, Lawrence Transportati o a unit commendation and the E.T.O. carried ammunition on the North At• King, Boiler Foreman, C. E. Jefferis, service in France since 1944. ribbon with two battle stars. lantic run to England. The next year Storekeeper, H. V. Steinberger, District Commissioned at Gerard A. Cusick — "Gerry" be• was spent in shuttle service between Claim Agent, H. V. Rollins, Mail Mes• Washington Sep• came a soldier in July, 1942, and Africa, Italy and France. He was pro• senger, J. T. Hays, Division Passenger tember 4, 1944, Col. Neville was flown after extensive training in this coun• moted to Yeoman in March, 1945, Agent and W. D. Cristee, Draftsman. to Paris, where his first assignment was try, he left for overseas in May, 1943. and assigned to Hospital Ship St. C. F. Johannes, of the Division Su• in freight transportation between Cher• He was assigned to the 80th Fighter Mihiel which made one trip to Eng• perintendents Office, who served as sec• bourg and Paris. Three months later Group and from May, 1943, to No- land and was then transferred to the retary since 1931, will retire early in he was appointed Assistant Superin• tendent of Paris terminals for five rail• Pacific, carrying wounded from the 1946. Philippine Islands to Base Hospitals road lines having terminals in that city. in Honolulu. He was promoted to In March, 1945, Col. Neville went to LeHavre as Superintendent of Ports, Huffman, Asst. General "Purser" and discharged at that rank working with the Army and the French in October, 1945. Storekeeper, W. Albany, Belgium Honors S.N.C.F. where he is still stationed. Ends 56 Years9 Service Col. Neville has the highest praise Lieut. Col. W. M. Snow for the men of the operating battalions, Robert Shay Huffman, Assistant Gen• Feinle Takes Cole's who performed their duties under serious eral Storekeeper, West Albany, re• Agency at Corning Lieut. Col. Wallace M. Snow, of difficulties. Working often as high as tired December 1, after 56 years of Boston, who left his job as New 85 hours without rest, over unknown service. Mr. Huffman started as a Effective December 1, W. H. Feinle England Freight Agent, New York track, without headlights on engines, was appointed General Agent, Freight using cigarette lighters and burning clerk with the Beech Creek Railroad Central System, to spend three years Department, New York Central Sys• paper for signalling, the entire signal at Jersey Shore in 1899. He became and three months with the Army Assistant Storekeeper for the same tem, with headquarters at Corning, N. T/4 Joseph C. Foley, Jr., a furloughed system having been destroyed by the fireman on the Mohawk Division, is now Transportation Corps in England, road in January, 1900. He then be• Y. He succeeds O. P. Cole, retired at Germans, they performed prodigies. serving as an engineman in Linz, Austria, France and Belgium, recently was came Division Storekeeper at Corning his own request after 46 years' service. and Chief Clerk to General Store• where he is a member of the 734th Rail• made a Chevalier of the Order of Victory Ball keeper at West Albany, in October, way Operating Battalion. Foley, who Leopold by the Prince Regent of 1905. Thereafter he was successively Fatalities resulting from accidents has three battle stars, hopes to start Belgium. This was given to him for in New York, Feb. 8 for the United States early this year. Division Storekeeper, Assistant General at highway-grade crossings and to exceptional service to Belgium while The Manhattan A. A. and the Com• Entering the service in March, 1943, he Storekeeper, District Storekeeper and trespassers on railroad property ac• on duty at Antwerp with the 13th modore Vanderbilt Post, American in November, 1921, became Assistant served under General Burbee of the counted in 1944 for more than two- Major Port outfit. The award was Legion, New York, will give, jointly, General Storekeeper. He was born Second Military Railway Service, which thirds of the total number of fatalities September 27, 1873, at Jersey Shore. worked with the Ninth Army. His home presented to Colonel Snow in Boston a Victory Ball, February 8, in the arising from railway accidents of all is in Utica. He is a son of Joseph C. by the Belgian Minister for National Roosevelt Hotel. Tickets will be kinds. Foley, Mohawk Division Engineman. Defense. $1.25. 6 Central Headlight January, 1946

Detroit Division Has 415 Miles of Tracks In Motor City Area

In the matter of taxes, too, the east and west, does not function in of gray iron, 220,000 tons of malleable Stands Out as Leader In This Michigan Central is in the fore. Under the capacity of a belt line in the iron, 85,000 tons of copper, 15,000 Michigan law all railroad taxes on generally accepted meaning of the tons of aluminum, 91,000,000 square the properties used in transportation term, but is strictly an industrial feet of plate glass and 373,000 bales Field of Concentrated Operation are paid to the State and earmarked switching line for originating and ter• of cotton, to mention a few of the for the State primary school fund. minating business with shippers located more important items. Has Largest Number of Freight Yards and Carries Most These figures are not broken down so along the line. There is, in addition, It is natural, therefore, that auto• Passengers — Owns Only Tunnel Route as to separate taxes paid according to the Michigan Central Belt, an in• mobiles and automotive products to and from Canada division or locations, but for 1944 the dustrial spur for shippers located in should make up the largest item of total of such taxes paid by the New the eastern part of the city. The lines New York Central traffic into and York Central to the State of Michi• of the New York Central through out of Detroit. In a single year the WHAT strikes one most forcefully about the Detroit Division of gan, amounted to $852,930, the most the city are so located that direct con• New York Central originated in * * the Michigan Central Route of the New York Central System is for any railroad operating in the nection is effected with all other roads Detroit as many as 163,018 carloads the predominant position it enjoys in the overall rail transportation State. These taxes are allocated to except the Pennsylvania. of completed automobiles, and in structure in the territory it serves. the various school districts on the Settled in 1701 by a party bf 100 1941, the last so-called normal year basis of the number of children of before our entry into the war, the Measured by almost any yardstick — percentage of business handled, Frenchmen from Montreal, Detroit school age. Thus, even in communities today, with a population estimated in total was 95,326. During the war both freight and passenger, adequacy of facilities, or superiority of in which no railroad operates the 1944 at 1,653,905 persons, is the years, Detroit's industrial output was service, the Detroit Division stands out definitely as a leader. school districts benefit. fourth largest city in the United States, devoted primarily, as was that of the Historically, too, the division holds an advantage in that during more Taxes on properties not used in exceeded in size only by New York, entire nation, to the production of war materials, foremost among which than 100 years of operation by the Michigan Central or its predecessor, transportation are paid to the city Chicago and Philadelphia. It is note• and county. For 1944 the New York worthy that practically all of its were aircraft and parts, guns and the State of Michigan's industry, to a considerable extent, has tended Central taxes on non-operating prop• phenomenal growth has been since the ammunition and trucks and tanks. to grow up alone its tracks. beginning of the century, coincident erties paid to the City of Detroit Automobiles are moved in especially with the beginning of the Detroit Territory covered by the Detroit Other New York Central "firsts" amounted to $76,931, and the county designed automobile loader cars, in share within Detroit was $13,638, a automobile industry. Division extends from Vassar, Mich., in the way of physical facilities in the development of which the New total of $90,569. Other city and county on the North, to Vienna Junction, Detroit show the Division has the In 1900, the United States census York Central was a pioneer. During taxes paid by the Central in com• Mich., south and somewhat west of largest number of freight yards there showed a population of 285,704 souls, the war most of these cars were de• munities outside of Detroit but within Detroit, immediately north of the of any railroad, the greatest total and a diversity of medium-sized , in• voted to other purposes, but; currently Ohio-Michigan state line, a total dis• Wayne County amounted to another Yard capacity, the largest Hump Yard dustries. With the founding of the a program of reconditioning is under tance of 131.24 miles of road. On the $5,415, bringing the grand total of in Michigan, is the only railroad to automotive industry in what is now way which will make available as west, the Division begins at Town non-operating taxes to $95,985. known as "The Motor City" Detroit, have tunnel access to Canada (others soon as possible approximately 10,000 Line (Greenfield Road), six miles serving the Dominion use car ferries) Detroit, oldest city in the United favorably located with respect to raw auto cars. These special cars, by the from the Michigan Central Passenger and has the largest pick up and de• States between the Allegheny and materials, skilled labor and excellent way, are considered standard equip• Terminal, and extends through the livery station on the New York Rocky Mountains and industrial capital transportation facilities, rapidly gained ment and are furnished shippers at city of Detroit to the Canadian end Central System. of the world, is served by nine rail• and held supremacy as a manufactur• no extra cost. of the Detroit River Tunnel, two and With such outstanding leadership roads. They are the New York Cen• ing center. So over-shadowing has been three-fourths miles beyond the Ter• in facilities and an equal superiority tral, the Grand Trunk Western, Pere the achievement of the automotive There is every likelihood that all minal. in service it is only natural that the Marquette, the Pennsylvania, the industry that few people remember of these cars, and perhaps more, will The extreme northern and south• Detroit Division today handles ap• Wabash, the Detroit, Toledo & Iron- that Detroit was once known as the be needed. For the automotive indus• western ends of the Division are proximately 47 per cent of all road ton, the Detroit & Toledo Shore Line, "Stove City" and still ranks high in try generally throughout the country reached by two branches. To the north haul carload and 55 per cent of all the Delray-Connecting Railroad and the production of ranges and heating it is predicted that annual production che Bay City Branch extends 84.77 I.C.I, freight traffic. the Detroit Terminal Railroad, the devices. of new cars will be built up to a latter owned in equal shares by the miles from the Detroit station to Vas• So far as passenger business is con• Indicative of the importance of the total Of 6,200,00 which would com• New York Central and the Grand sar, all but about 77 miles of which is cerned, it is estimated that the Central automotive industry is the fact that pare with the pre-war peak of 4,- Trunk. single track. Southwestward to Vienna carries 65 per cent of all people motor producers in the Detroit area 200,000 cars. While this is a national Junction is the Toledo Branch, double- entering or leaving Detroit by rail• The Detroit Terminal Railroad, in a normal year consume an estimated figure, Detroit is sure to produce a tracked throughout its entire length road. which circles the city, to the north, 4,000,000 tons of steel, 500,000 tons large share of the total.

of 46.47 miles. At Vassar on the But all is not automobiles in De• north the Bay City Branch connects troit. While its present day fame with the Michigan Division for ser• rests largely upon the motor in• vice through to Mackinaw City. At dustry, the city boasts some 80 differ• Vienna Junction the line moves into ent lines of manufacture, and in a the Toledo Division. number of them ranks at or near the top for the entire country. Among At Town Line, on the west, the the more important items are pharma• Detroit Division joins the Michigan ceuticals and chemicals, adding ma• Division main line which, together chines, foundry products, machine tool with the West Division, beginning at accessories, pleasure boats, paints and Miles, connects Detroit, the "Gate• varnish, refined salt and alkali pro• way to Canada," with the Chicago ducts and machinery. Detroit devel• gateway and the West. Beyond the oped the first practical vacuum cleaner; Detroit River the Division connects it is the birthplace of the electric with the Canada Division and the refrigerator and an important pro• East. ducer of electrical appliances and Major operations of the Detroit devices. It is the home of the nation's Division are within the Detroit Ter• largest producer of commercial trailers minal District. Within this area, com• Seated, left to right: C. O. Peters, Passenger Car Foreman; H. E. Bratt, and drugs. prising substantially the city of De- Trainmaster; A. E. Somers, Trainmaster; R. F. DeForest, Superintendent; During recent years, its favorable troit and its suburbs, lies one of the D. P. Crillman, Division General Car Foreman; L. J. Robbins, Assistant location as a producer of steel, plus most highly concentrated railroad op• Superintendent; C. W. Adams, Master Mechanic and C. L. LeValley, Freight Agent. its close proximity to a tremendous erations in the country. Standing: W. Hayball, Electrical Supervisor; E. J. Linton, Road Foreman market for steel — the motor industry New York Central trackage in this of Engines; A. M. Gage, General Storekeeper; J. A. Seabrook, Station- — has been making Detroit a steel area totals 415 miles, 95 miles of master; V. J. Humphrey, Signal Supervisor; C. I. Lehrke, Baggage and Mail center. Instead of hauling ore past which are main line tracks and 320 Agent; A. W. Krug, District Claim Agent; J. D. Eraser, Supervisor of Build• Detroit on lake freighters and re- ings; C. L. Towns, Chief Dispatcher; A. J. Faust, Captain of Police; R. S. miles in yards and sidings. Included hauling the finished steel back to the Gates, Assistant Master Mechanic; J. L. Meehan, Division Freight Agent; in this total are six miles of double motor plants, a number of large steel J. Evans, Division Engineer, and C. H. Peterson, Depot Ticket Agent. crack of the Toledo Branch and eight plants have located in the Detroit miles of double track of the Bay City Top, left, sign welcoming returning veterans in Michigan Central Passenger area. Branch. This is the largest total of Terminal, Detroit. trackage for any railroad in the Detroit Aside from automobile and auto• ares. Top, right, Detroit entrance to the twin tubes under Detroit River to Canada. motive products, the most important January, 1946 Central Headlight 7

items of outbound freight traffic over you all to come down and see it," said the New York Central are paper and Battle Creek Celebrates 100th Mr. Skog. chemical products, coke, petroleum Lieut. Gov. Brown told of early events and petroleum products and iron and Anniversary of Arrival of First Michigan in Michigan and railroad history and steel. Inbound, those ranking highest Central Train paid tribute to the pioneer builders, in tonnage are coal, iron and steel, who, he pointed out, achieved so much stone, automotive parts, lumber and with the little with which they had to agricultural products. work. In passing, it is interesting to note Brig. General Bastion told of the re• that there is located within the city liance that the Military Departments limits of Detroit a salt mine which placed on the railroads during the war. now has reached a depth of one and "In Battle Creek the railroads re• one-fourth miles. The State of Michi• sponded night and day or on Sundays gan is, to a considerable extent, under• or holidays, sometimes on short notice, lain with salt; hence the development and always met our requirements of a chemical industry which gives promptly and efficiently," said the Detroit its position of leadership in General. the production of soda ash and salt Despite exceedingly inclement products. weather which resulted in a steady Altogether there are approximately downpour throughout the morning 3,100 industrial concerns in the De• and intermittent showers throughout the evening, nearly 4,000 people troit area, about half of which are braved the elements to inspect the served directly by the New York equipment exhibition, which was a Central, either in carload or Lcl. remarkable display of a completely business. reconditioned Mercury train, a 6000 Throughout the area the New York series locomotive, freight equipment, Central connects with the 515 pri• maintenance machinery and signal de• vate industrial leads and through them vices and such special items as an auto serves 693 industries. Many of these loader car and a rail-highway car. leads have switches off the main lead, Throughout the city there was a giving 1,200 or more side tracks for general railroad atmosphere. This was industrial use. As high as 39 freight reflected in special railroad exhibits trains have been dispatched daily, with in the windows of many downtown inbound movements totaling about merchants. Two special radio broad• the same. casts also were included in the gen• Twenty-two freight yards, having eral program, both broadcasts over the a combined capacity of 12,843 cars, Battle Creek Station WELL. serve Detroit industry. The largest of Shortly before the Centennial din• these is the Junction Yard, on the ner on November 27, a round-table main line, a short distance east of the discussion of the railroad industry western limit of the Division. The was broadcast. Participating in this Junction Yard, which has a capacity were Mr. Jellinghaus, Mr. Skog, L. W. of 3,850 cars, is connected with the Troutfetter, Traffic Manager of the Toledo Branch by means of a New Kellogg Company, Battle Creek, Mr. York Central-owned connecting line Habermann of the Chamber of Com• and at its eastern exit leads directly ORE than 200 men—business lead• kerchiefs. merce and Bruce O'Leary, moderator. ers, high-ranking Army officials, into the main line to the Detroit Mr. Rice extended greetings of the Dramatic Radio Sketch River Tunnel and thence into Canada, political luminaries, railroad executives Chamber. Acknowledgment was by Mr. or to the north to join the Bay City and others — were present at a dinner McKee. At 6:30 the preceding evening mem• Branch, which, incidentally, is well November 27, in Battle Creek, Mich., bers of the Junior Association of Com• located to take advantage of the pres• celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Mr. Jellinghaus presented awards of merce presented over the radio a fif• ent tendency of Detroit industry to the entry of the railroad into the city. Victory Bonds to three boys and three teen minute dramatic sketch portray• girls from the local high school, win• expand northward from the city. At The affair, which filled to overflow• ing the arrival of the first railroad the Junction Yard is the retarder- ners of an essay contest on "What the train on November 27, 1845, when ing the main dining-room of the Post Railroad Has Meant to Battle Creek." operated hump, the largest in Michi• Tavern, Battle Creek's largest hotel, skepticism ran high, with many of gan, which has a capacity of 2,400 climaxed a full day's activities which There were tributes to the pioneers those in the crowd believing that the cars a day. began at 8 o'clock in the morning and plaudits for the tremendous job steam "enjine" would never really re• accomplished by the railroads under place the horse and ox team. The pro• Located adjacent to the Junction when Miss Pauline Amelia Rogers, who wartime pressure. Most important of gram concluded by moving up to the Yard, at the eastern end, is the New had been chosen as "Miss Michigan all there came out of it the realization present day with the arrival of the York Central stock yard, which is a Central" for the Centennial, sounded that the city and the railroads are de• modern Mercury and recounted the regularly equipped market yard, at• the whistle of a New York Central lo• pendent upon each other for mutual 1945 conveniences of railroad travel. tended by brokers and provided with comotive — a signal for similar blasts prosperity. Railroad speakers were in demand pens, scales, etc. from all locomotives in town. Appro• priately Miss Rogers is a railroad worker The toastmaster and others spoke on also by three luncheon clubs which A new facility for the convenience herself, having been Assistant Cashier At top, left to right: Lieut. Gov. Vernon the early history of the Michigan Cen• met November 26, 27 and 28. Speak• of the meat trade (under construc• at the Battle Creek New York Central J. Brown, of Michigan; C. L. Jellinghaus, tral. They told how it originally started ing before the Rotarians, was Emil H. tion at the time of writing) is a new Vice President, Detroit, and Bernard E. Freight Office for five and one-half at Detroit, was taken over by the State Hanson, Superintendent, Freight Trans• Godde, Mayor of Battle Creek. At bot• meat dock at the 12th Street team and built as far as Kalamazoo and then portation, New York Central, Detroit; years. tom is shown Miss Pauline A. Rogers, track. This new facility is especially sold to private interests. Subsequently before the Lions Club was C. A. Rad• Continuing throughout the day were "Miss Michigan Central," whose blowing designed for handling fresh meat and John J. Danhof, Chief Counsel, De• ford, Big Four Publiciry Manager, packing house products for team track luncheons, radio broadcasts, exhibits of of a locomotive whistle started a chorus of whistles from all the locomotives in troit, another New York Central speak• Cincinnati, and before the Exchange delivery to local distributors. When New York Central equipment and the Battle Creek to usher in the celebration. er, when commenting upon the railroad Club, H. P. Hannan, Superintendent, dinner, which was sponsored by the completed it will be a covered, en• equipment on public display, pointed Freight Transportation, New York Battle Creek Chamber of Commerce. closed platform, 500 feet long by 50 out that this equipment alone was Central, Chicago. feet wide, with a spotting capacity of Hospital, Fort Custer, while the State Three Vice Presidents There worth almost half as much as the two 20 cars. The completed job will in• of Michigan was represented by Lieut. Three New York Central vice presi• million dollars spent by the State of clude three refrigerator units, with a Gov. Vernon E. Brown, who repre• dents were at the speaker's table. They sented Governor Kelly; State Senator Michigan to build a railroad from De• capacity of one carload each. Cur• troit to Kalamazoo. Central Employes in rently New York Central meat traffic were M. J. Alger, Vice President, Traf• R. J. Hamilton, and State Representa• in Detroit is approximately 2,000 car• fic, New York; J. L. McKee, Vice tive Thomas C. Morgan, both of Battle Dinner Planned for 1972 Two Important Posts loads annually. President, Chicago, and C. L. Jelling- Creek. Chamber of Commerce officials haus, Vice President and General Man• included E. C. Rice, President and Ru• Glimpses of the great progress that at St. Thomas, Ont. At the 3rd Street freight yard, ager, Detroit. From elsewhere on the dolph Habermann, Secretary. For the the future holds in railroad develop• located along the Detroit River near System there were numerous other City of Battle Creek, Mayor B. E. ment, which were frequent during the Ernest Seger, Electrician Foreman the American end of the Michigan New York Central officials and depart• Godde extended an official welcome. evening, were climaxed by Mr. Skog of and George D. Lang, Locomotive De• Central Tunnel, is the Detroit Freight ment heads, as well as prominent rep• Toastmaster was A. L. Miller, Editor the Grand Trunk Western, whp ex• partment Accountant, have again been Station, also known as the Third resentatives of other railroads, among of the Battle Creek Enquirer & News. tended an invitation to another dinner, elected by acclamation to the local Street Freight Station, which has a them C. A. Skog, Detroit, General The speaker's table itself presented a the 100th Anniversary of his railroad Public Utilities Commission, St. car spotting capacity of 268. Includ• Manager of the Grand Trunk Western. picturesque scene in keeping with the in 1972. Thomas, Ont., for 1946-1947. ing substations, the Lcl. tonnage into Representing the Military was Brig. occasion, for all at the table wore en• "At that time we are going to have Mayor Thomas W. Currah, Ma• and out of the Third Street Station Gen. J. C. Bastion of the Percy Jones gineers' caps and red bandana hand• atomic power on display and we invite chinist in the Locomotive Shops, St. has reached the large total of 750,000 Thomas, after having served two terms tons a year and currently is running in that capacity was a candidate for around 550,000 tons. This includes Each twin power unit can move ap• 1945) the actual number of tickets operate through the tunnel. Alderman for 1946. Other Equipment local inbound and outbound goods sold at the Terminal ticket office alone Other repair facilities in the Detroit proximately 1,700 gross tons west• Department employes holding civic as well as transfer shipments. The totaled 75,002. In the same month the area include a 45-stall round house, bound through the tunnel and 2,100 offices in St. Thomas, are: Third Street Freight House is the tons eastbound, the difference being Mail and Baggage Department in the employing 356 men and women with James W. Murray, Pipefitter, as largest freight house in the world and accounted for by the variations in Terminal handled 262,000 pieces of an average dispatchment of 88 loco• School Trustee; P. J. McLean, Engine- is the largest pick up and delivery grades. On the basis of the gross baggage and 1,001,800 pieces of mail motives daily. At West Detroit are house Foreman, as Alderman; William station on the New York Central weight of 70 tons a car this indi• with an average force of 250 men. a large repair shop and Repair Yard, Baldwin, Engineer, as School Trustee; System. Last March • pick up and de• For Detroit as a whole New York where freight cars are given com• cates movements of 24 or 25 loads Richard Gilbert, Assistant Chief Sta• livery business alone reached a peak Central ticket sales for 1944 totaled plete overhauling in the shop and westbound and 30 loads eastbound. tionary Engineer as School Trustee: figure of 6,140 tons outbound and 1,638,760. running repairs in the Yards. The With two twin units working to• Gordon Leckie, Blacksmith, candidate 7,556 tons inbound. Scattered through• At the Michigan Central Terminal Shop employs 215 men and turns out gether, westbound tonnage may be for Alderman for 1946, and Ernest out the Detroit area are 29 team there are 10 tracks for passenger train an average of 180 cars a month with stepped up to 3,000 tons and east- Duckworth, Machinist, as Chairman track locations, with a total capacity service, on which is handled a monthly light, medium and heavy repairs. The bound to 3,500 tons. of the Public Utilities Commission. of 1279 cars. average of 23,105 passenger cars. One Yard force of 353 men turns out an Taking July, 1945, as a representa• The employes of our railroad at St other track is devoted exclusively to average of 12,164 cars a month. The Michigan Central Tunnel, an tive recent month, the daily average Thomas are charged with an active and express service. Outside of the Detroit area, three important exclusive facility which of freight moved through the tunnel important part in the administration Rising above the huge waiting cities noteworthy from a traffic stand• gives the New York Central an out• was 18 eastbound and 22 westbound. of this municipality. room in the Terminal is the Michigan point are Wyandotte and Monroe on standing advantage over other lines In the same month average daily Central office biulding, which houses the Toledo Branch, and Oxford on the serving Canada, is 8,380 feet long movements of passenger trains was 14 some 4,000 employes, including the Bay City Branch. from portal to portal. It is divided more in each direction. 2,500 people who make up the New At Wyandotte there originates heavy Motive Power Men into two tubes for east and west Superiority of New York Central York Central System Auditing De• tonnage in chemicals and acids, rub• service, and is fully protected by W. H. Flynn, General Superintend• passenger service to Detroit is indi• partment. ber products and cement. Monroe automatic block signals throughout. ent, Motive Power & Rolling Stock, cated by the fact that 70 passenger Also at the Terminal is a coach produces a substantial volume of busi• announced the appointment, effective Operation through the tunnel is, trains arrive and depart daily — 36 yard of 18 tracks, with a capacity of ness in paper and fibre board pro• December 1, of R. C. Trinkner as Gen• of course, with electric power, pro• inbound and 34 outbound. In both 127 cars. The average cleaned and ducts, automobile accessories and office eral Inspector, with headquarters at vided by twelve units operated in directions they carry an average of repaired each day by a force of 282 equipment. Oxford is the center of a New York. two unit sections. The Electric Zone; some 11,132 passengers daily, in• men and women is* 380 cars. Terminal large gravel and sand industry, traffic J. G. Hunt was recently appointed through and at both ends of the tun• cluding, of course, through passengers. facilities also include a repair shop in which promises to increase greatly Diesel Instructor, with headquarters at nel, is about four miles in length. In a single recent month (September, for the electric locomotives which as building operations are resumed. New York. 8 Central Headlight Cleveland, Cincinnati, Indianapolis

Orange Avenue Y F. N. Reynolds Speaks to Indianapolis Chapter, Association of Pearl Harbor Fighter Social Club Elects Retired Railway Employes of Indiana Honored in Indianapolis The Orange Avenue "Y" Social The Indianapolis Chamber of Com• Club, Cleveland, opening its winter merce sponsored its annual apprecia• season with a dinner to more than tion luncheon honoring the new Na• 100, elected F. A. Comerford, Pres• tional Commander of the American ident; Anne Feeney, Vice President; Legion, John Stelle, former governor Alice M. Thomas, Secretary and of Illinois, December 10. Treasurer; Directors, Margaret Stew• The party, at the Indianapolis Ath• art, Winifred Simek, Martin Knack, letic Club, was attended by prominent G. H. Wright, A. M. Sweny, and business and professional men and R. J. Lash; Audit Committee, G. S. women, as well as the Legion rank Weigle, E. J. Uhl, and Peter DeVries. and file. Philip Wolf and F. B. Dietrich will The Chamber of Commerce had as have charge of sports. its special guests, one World War II Trustees appointed were R. W. veteran from each Legion Post in In• Andrews, J. A. Rentsch, J. H. Frank, dianapolis, paying the veterans' 1946 E. J. Black, J. C. Napp, and Stanley Legion dues and for their dinner. Prauge, who is Assistant Executive Big Four Railway Post 116, selected Secretary of the Railroad. L. A. Anderson, a carman apprentice All joined in singing and games. at Beech Grove Shops for this honor Special programs twice each month Sergt. Anderson was the first employe are scheduled. of the local Car Department to leave for the war. He enlisted in the Ma• Visitors were Noel Wical of the rines January 3, 1939 and was called Cleveland Press and Scott Spencer, to active duty November 1, 1940. He Personnel Department. helped fight off the raiders at Pearl Harbor Sunday December 7, 1941 and subsequently fought on many Islands Cleveland Man in the Southwest Pacific, including Wins Itinerary Award Tonga, Guadalcanal, Batio, Tarawa Atoll, Saipan and Tinian. He was dis• In a recent contest conducted by charged October 2, 1945. Trains Magazine, of Milwaukee, J. Leo Duggan, Relief Clerk at the East Sergt. Anderson received unit com• Cleveland Ticket office, was one of mendation from General Pickett, P.H. 46 First Award winners. Defence and Second Presidential Cita• tion Unit, Guadalcanal and Tarawa. The contest was to plan the short• est itinerary for a traveling repre• sentative to visit each State Governor Major Evans Ends and the President in Washington. Four Years' Service This itinerary started from Chicago, Major Wallace G. Evans, formerly Aug. 1, and ended at the starting Cleveland Man Assistant General Freight Agent at point September 8, at 1:21 P. M. It St. Louis, returned to civilian life De• was required that each visit must be cember 9, after four years of active of two hours duration, with no visits Wins Bronze Star service. on Sundays or Holidays. Major Evans, who entered the army Staff Sergt. Thomas M. Kelty, for as a private, was connected with Coast 11 years a Machine Operator with the Artillery and Transportation Corps New York Central at Cleveland and and spent one year in France and Ger• Cleveland Hits since July 1, 1942, with the 755th This Chapter meets twice monthly and recent meeting. At bottom, Mr. Rey• many. After the collapse of Germany Railway Shop Battalion, recently was has a membership of 500. At top are nolds is shown talking on his unit was returned to the United Quota on War Bonds awarded the Bronze Star for meritori• shown some of those present at a Transportation. States preparatory to movement to the The Collinwood area again reached ous service in the European Theater of Pacific but the surrender of the Japa• the quota of Victory Bond sales which Operations. He devised new methods Cleveland Boy Back; nese came while he was still in this of repair for locomotives at a time was set up for it. The quota was predi• Brother in Germany In Manila country. cated on both cash sales and payroll when parts were unobtainable. His Major Evans is the son of T. W. deductions and the campaign was a latest job in the Army was as a brake Two Cleveland boys, sons of L. G. Evans, retired Vice President, Chicago. credit to the employes in all depart- inspector for the repair work handled Mulhall, Inspector-Repairer, at the ments at Collinwood, by his unit. son Men Return There were a number of instances Service boys in the Office of Auditor Mulhall has a two-star service flag where employes bought bonds of large Freight Accounts Gibson, Ind., arc at his home in Indianapolis. denominations, a few of them buying Cleveland Trio Back coming home. Lieut. E. H. Austgen. $5000, where such purchases could One of the boys, Corp. Francis Mul• Sergt. A. D. Bonneau, and M/Sgt have been made on the outside with Three employes of the office of Super• hall, recently was discharged after 33 V. E. Howard have all returned to certain tangible premiums attached, but intendent of Shops and Master Mechanic months' service, 15 of them overseas railroad service. Sergt. L. C. Schultz, they elected to buy their bonds and at Collinwood have returned to service, in the Rhineland and Central Europe, Sergt. J. S. Spiegel and Corp. J. C. give credit to their employer, the New after extensive periods of overseas as a Signal Corps man. He received Wilfinger are back and have been York Central. military duty: Michael J. Pavlik, who five battle stars. discharged. spent about two and one-half years in His brother, Staff Sergt. Robert Iran with a Railway Battalion; William Mulhall, at last reports was still in Back from England S. Duffin, who was a Staff Sergeant in Germany, with the Medical Corps. He Fort Wayne Man Is Corp. Charles E. Koridek, a formet the Air Corps in the Chinese Theatre, has received the Combat Medics' Badge clerk in the Auditor's office, CR&I- Presented With Bag and Donald F. Smith, who was a Ser• and the Army Citation of Merit for IHB, Chicago, has been honorably dis• Central employes at Fort Wayne, geant in the Finance Section of the 99th service in Germany and Austria. He charged from the Army and has re• Indiana, gave a dinner October 30 in Infantry, in the European Theatre of has been in the Service since June. turned to work. He was in England honor of Chelcea E. Leslie, Yard Con• Operations. 1943, and overseas since last January. ductor, who retired October 31, with working on fighter plane guns. 38 years of service. Guests were Henry C. Stellhorn, Yard Conductor with 40 Sergt. William A. Adair, 64 N. 8th Emery in Florida years' service and C. R. McLain, of Legion Indianapolis Post Presents Flags for Ave., Beech Grove, Ind., who before Goes to Charleston the Car Department with 39 years, entering the Army in June, 1943, was L. S. Emery, Assistant Superintend• both of whom had retired previously. Auxiliary to Public School 28 a yard clerk in the Indianapolis Ter• ent at Charleston, W. Va., and wife, minal. After infantry training he was R. A. Buchanan, Agent, presented a sent to Europe and placed in General vacationed in Jacksonville, Fla., where certificate. Jacob's office, Headquarters Channel they visited their son, James Emery A Gladstone bag was presented Mr. Base, in Lille, France. He arrived home and family. James previously was lo• Leslie. Mr. Leslie expects to make his on 30-day furlough last August and cated in the Division Freight & Passen• home in Oviedo, Florida, with a was then sent to the Pacific. He is now ger Agent's Office at Charleston and is in the office of the Chief Surgeon in daughter. now City Freight and Passenger Agent Manila. In his spare time he is study• at Jacksonville. C. R. Larkin, Patrolman, read two ing a course in Railroad, Steamship poems composed by him in honor of and Airline Transportation under the the retiring three. G.I. Bill of Rights, and is leading a G.I. Claim Agents Dined Army dance-band entertaining Service A festive stag dinner was given in boys and girls in and around Manila. the Hotel Seneca, Columbus, to cele• He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray• Alliance Agent Shows mond R. Adair. For 17 years Mr. Adair brate the promotion of District Claim How to Ship Airplanes has been with the N.Y.C. Police De• Agent G. W. Brittingham from Colum• partment at Indianapolis. bus to a similar position at Toledo and H. E. Ruggles, Agent at Alliance, to welcome the new District Claim suggested a method of loading Taylor- Agent at Columbus, H. V. Steinberger. craft planes in box cars which has About 55 attended, including Cleve• been adopted by the Taylorcraft Avia• Cleveland Painter land visitors, officials, fellow workers, tion Corporation of Alliance for send• Foreman is Dined and representatives of the medical and ing its planes to the West Coast. legal staff at Columbus. Mr. Britting• Six of these small civilian planes, Fred Higgins retired as Painter ham was given a traveling bag. with wings, struts and landing-gear re• Foreman at Cleveland after forty-two moved, can be stacked in one car. The years of service. Big Four Women Company has more than 7000 orders Mr. Higgins entered service Febru• Meet in Springfield on its books. ary 3, 1903, at Cleveland. Big Four Veteran's Auxiliary No. Two years later he became a painter, 2, Springfield, Ohio, recently held an Big Four Railway Post, 116, American The flags were accepted by former prin• working between Buffalo and Toledo. Indianapolis Man Legion, at Indianapolis, recently han• cipal Miss Jane Graydon on behalf of enthusiastic meeting, with a potluck dled the ceremony of presenting two the present Principal, Miss Jessie Rus• On July 6, 1910, he was promoted supper and a fine program. Mrs. Fred Retires After 55 Years American Flags to Indianapolis public sell. Commander McClain was assisted to Painter Foreman in the same ter• Deyhle, President, with a committee George Paul Williams, Chief De• school No. 28. The flags were provided by the Post color guard of four World ritory. Several years later, his head• consisting of Mrs. Blanche Howard, murrage Supervisor at Indianapolis, re• by the post's Auxiliary Unit, under the War II veterans: Sailors C. M. Macy quarters were established at Cleveland, Mrs. Nora Bidwell, Mrs. Paul Brooks direction of Mrs. Earl Beasley, who is and W. C. Emberton, Soldiers F. D. tired November 30 after a service of and then Collinwood. and Mrs. Maphias, was in charge. also President of the school's Parents- Conway and F. W. Prinz. Approximately 55 years. He started at Greenwich, O., Teacher's Association. Post Commander 300 attended the meeting. The post is About one hundred fifty fellow em• The New York Central Orchestra as a switchman at the age of seventeen. H. F. McClain, Electrical Foreman at very active and has a membership of ployes honored him with a farewell of Springfield was featured at a Christ• He served at various stations until Beech Grove Shops, and a former pupil 180, 40 of whom are War II veterans. A party at Collinwood. He was presented mas party which was held in the Club 1910 when he went to Indianapolis. of the school, made the presentation. membership of over 300 is expected soon. with gifts. He is now in Florida. Rooms, December 18. Detroit Central Headlight

40 St. Thomas Men Two Detroit Marines Dine Norman Shingler are Serving in Japan Forty members of the supervisory Two more Auditor Passenger Ac• forces of St. Thomas Shops and En- counts boys have found their way to ginehouses, and other points on the Japan. Pfc. Edwin Biebel, of the Canada Division met in the Grand Marines, is stationed at Kyushu, while Central Hotel at St. Thomas recently Pfc. Richard Marsh is 23 miles from to honor Norman Shingler, who re• Tokyo. tired after serving as General Boiler Foreman at St. Thomas since 1921. Prior to that time Mr. Shingler served Additional discharges from military in Detroit as Boilermaker, following service among Auditor Passenger Ac• long service with the Pennsylvania counts personnel are former T/3 Wil• Railroad as a brakeman and boiler- liam Dinner, Sergt. Ray Hurd, Thomas maker. Parker of the Coast Guard, Pfc. Lester Chairman was Thomas W. Cottrell, Horton, Sergt. Archie Carpenter, Corp. Master Mechanic, St. Thomas. Toasts Carol Cook of the WAC, Pfc. Bernard were proposed by Superintendent T. L. Nolish of the Marines, Robert North, Coughlin; Assistant Master Mechanic SK 2/c of the Navy, and Shipfitter W. Parker; Division General Car 3rd class Frank Kubera, of the Seabees. Foreman, C. J. Marple; General Fore• man H. A. Vicary, St. Thomas; Ter• minal Foreman G. F. Bunclark, and Among the servicemen, discharged, other Shop and Enginehouse Foremen. and returned to work at the A.P.A., There were several out of town Detroit, are Nick Tikfesi, Elier Lyn- visitors present, among them being dorff, Marvin Brandt and Lester Hor• L. D. Brown of the Dearborn Chemi• ton. All bid into the Apportionment cal Company, Jackson; A. P. Lieder. More than 1200 employes witnessed the showing of the courtesy films, "The Lady Said Thanks" and "The Time Is Now," Department. General Boiler Supervisor, Detroit; during a four-day showing in the Detroit area. The pictures were shown in connection with the Public Relations Train• John Hale, General Stationary Boiler ing Program. More than 200 employes in Detroit have completed the Advanced Training courses. Additional groups in both Elementary and Advanced Training are being set up on the Michigan Central at Detroit, Jackson, Battle Creek, Inspector, Detroit; Wilfred Vye, En• Culminating a romance of long Kalamazoo, Niles, Saginaw, and Bay City. The picture above was taken at one of the showings. ginehouse Foreman, Fort Erie, Ont.; standing, two A.P.A. employes were Amos Palmer, Boiler Foreman, Wind• married December 7. Ray Hurd, re• sor, and Arthur Shingler, Boiler Fore- cently discharged from the Army, lost

Broadcasts from Detroit Passenger Station Amuse Detroit Camera Detroit Information and Reservation Bureau Waiting Passengers Club is Active Employes Learn Telephone Technique Its photography class for beginners having been of great help to new• comers, the New York Central Cam• era Club of Detroit is now devoting most of its time to monthly print competitions and shooting sessions. An enlarging class and one at which Christmas card making was demon• strated recently occupied the members. When the "People at Work" print contest for December was judged, it was found that Morton Friedman was the maker of the photo selected as the best. Jack Ferguson was voted second place and Wilbert Weilert third. "Character Studies" and "Street Scenes" are the subjects of the Jan• uary and February competitions. Some form of refreshment is an Shown are some of the 100 employes of the Bureau, which is managed by A. J. innovation being added to each of Collins. The personnel of the Terminal, City and Boulevard Ticket Offices, the Club's shooting sessions. Coffee Detroit; of the Third Street Freight Terminal, Detroit, and of the Ticket Office and Freight Station at Jackson, also received this training. Left to right are and doughnuts served at the Novem• shown: Miss Mildred B. Taylor, Special Representative; Mrs. Mary Taylor, Miss ber get-together received high praise. Corrine Ferguson, Mrs. Eileen Stone, H. C. Siebert, Assistant Manager of the Although steadily picking up new Bureau; Arthur Perachio, in charge of the G.R.B.; Miss Lois Russell, Mrs. Judy Ty Tyson, Detroit's favorite sports announcer and radio interviewer, broad• members, the Club still has openings Jermyn, Mrs. Helen Ferriby, and, seated, Miss Ida Perachio and Mrs. Pauline casts from the main waiting room of the Detroit Passenger Station each Buelow, Chief Information Clerk. day at 12:45 p.m. The picture above was taken during Ty Tyson's absence for camera enthusiasts employed in and shows (from left to right) Edward Sheehan, Patrolman; W. J. Holden, the Detroit area and who have not Chief Claim Agent; Frank Rowland, WWJ Announcer; a young man being as yet affiliated themselves with the interviewed, and George Hunter, substituting for Ty Tyson. The program is organization. Meetings are held very little time in claiming Janice sponsored by the Chuckles Candy Company and is a great source of enter• monthly on the second Thursday at Hoover and Oil Man Weddigen as his bride. tainment and amusement to railroad patrons waiting for trains, as well as 6 p.m. in the Detroit Passenger Ter• Praise Rail Employes Robert Blakeslee, another dis• to the radio audience. minal, with a shooting session fol• charged veteran, married Shirley lowing approximately two weeks later. man, West Detroit, brother of the 11 Detroit Car The railroad employes of America Kamppinen, the girl who waited for honored guest. Percy Cox, General Prospective members should write or recently received two commendations him, on November 29. Locomotive Inspector of the Wabash Men Back from War call J. C. Ferguson, chairman of the for their performance during the war William Ahern, Division Clerk Railway, St. Thomas also was present. D. P. Crillman, Division General Membership Committee, Sixth floor, period. mildly surprised his co-workers when Congratulations were received from Car Foreman, Detroit, advises that 11 Auditor Passenger Accounts' Office, One was from J. Edgar Hoover, Di• he was wed to Lulu Taylor of Mil- many officers and supervisors from out• of 22 members of his department who Detroit. rector of the Federal Bureau of Inves• ford, Ohio. side points. An outstanding guest was entered the Armed Forces have been tigation, Washington, who expressed John T. Summers, retired Tool Room discharged and are back on their jobs his "Sincere appreciation for the assist• Only promotion noted among Audi• Foreman, St. Thomas. at the Junction Yards. They are: Ches• ance rendered to the Bureau in connec• tor Passenger Accounts folk remain• Mr. Shingler was presented with a ter Augustyniak, Chester Bott, James Safety is Paramount tion with transporting its personnel on ing in military service is that of WAC beautiful traveling case and was ex• Clevanger, Walter Duda, Louis Ken• official business." Lucille Gaines to Technician, Fifth tended a life membership in the Old nedy, Arthur Martlock, Harold McKel- The second was from B. L. Graves, Grade. Timers' Club of the St. Thomas Loco• lip, Boris Nording, Louis Pluto, Stan• Chairman of the Petroleum Industry motive Shops. ley Zambrzycki and W. LaCombe. Wins Silver Star War Council, who said: types of traffic they will be called upon One former Department member "The American railroads certainly to move in the coming years and the Leaves Detroit John Weber, was killed in action. did a splendid job in improving the kind of service needed to handle this to Go to Alaska The other ten men still in uniform turn-around time and thus the effi• business. Howard Kahler, Head Clerk, office and for whom an early return is hoped ciency of available tank cars employed in moving petroleum to the East." of Medical Director, Detroit, resigned are Joseph Bida, Theo Duda, Joseph 50 Years' Work Ends recently to take up employment at An• Golonka, Alfred Ignas, Victor Kania. chorage, Alaska. Mr. Kahler entered Joseph Olech, Thomas Preston, How• John P. Holcomb, Station Master the service in 1928 as Stenographer- ard Stites, Peter Waligorski and Ed• Suggestions from at La Grange, Ohio, who retired re• Clerk in the office of Chief Surgeon, ward Zamberzycki. Shippers are Asked cently after 50 years of service, was Columbus, O. given an elaborate farewell party in The railroads are going to their cus• Fellow employes of the Medical De• the auditorium of the local High tomers — the shippers and receivers — partment and of the Chief Claim New Surgeon School. J. H. Page, Station Agent at to find out what they want freight Agent's office at Detroit feted him at At Grand Rapids Wellington, Ohio, was toastmaster. service to be like in the future, said a dinner at the "Old Madrid." He was Mr. Holcomb received several gifts Dr. William J. McDougal has been F. J. Wall, chairman of the Traffic presented with a well-filled purse. and many kind words. appointed Company Surgeon at Grand Subcommittee of the Railroad Com• Donald R. Davis, former secretary to Rapids, Mich., to succeed the late Dr. mittee for the Study of Transportation. Dr. Bradley L. Coley, Chief Surgeon Rowland F. Webb, and Dr. Dean W. This is being done, Mr. Wall ex• Cross to Minneapolis at New York, was appointed to suc• Harris has been appointed Company plained, through a questionnaire which J. D. Cross, formerly Chief Clerk ceed Mr. Kahler. Surgeon at Lansing, Mich., succeed• the members of the Traffic Subcom• in the Kansas City office, has been ing Dr. Howard B. Haynes who has mittee have sent to 18,679 large and promoted to City Freight Agent at New Assistant retired from active practice in Lansing small shippers throughout the country. Minneapolis. Medical Director to take up his residence at Traverse Pfc. Samuel J. Clarkson, son of Mowat The questionnaire seeks suggestions as City, Mich. Clarkson, City Freight Agent in the of• to such subjects as service and equip• Dr. E. H. Hanna resigned from the fice of J. D. Switzer, Assistant General Lieut. Hanson Back ment, rates, minimum weights, tariffs position of Assistant Medical Director, Freight Agent, Detroit, has been awarded On Job at Albany December 1. He will continue in service the Silver Star for gallantry in action in and classifications, packing require• as Company Surgeon at Detroit. Sage Resigns in Detroit the vicinity of Moyenvic, France, on ments, and sales and servicing. Each Harold F. Hanson, for 43 months Dr. Dan W. Myers, son of the Med• R. H. Sage, Jr., Chief Clerk to Med• November 8, 1944. Pfc. Clarkson, a pla• shipper is particularly asked to indi• in the Army, recently resumed his ical Director, returned in October from ical Director, Detroit, Mich., resigned toon runner, while in charge of a supply cate his individual requirements for position as Claim Agent at Albany, patrol to deliver ammunition, unexpect• Europe where he served as Lieutenant November 15, 1945 to accept a posi• railroad freight service in the years N. Y. edly came under heavy fire from a hid• tion in Flint, Mich. ahead, he added. Mr. Hanson's last assignment in the Colonel in the Medical Corps and den German pill box. After deploying Commanding Officer of Station Hospi• Harold O. House, employed in that his men Clarkson crawled close to the When this information is assembled, Army was as First Lieutenant, Legal tal 7 in Italy. He has succeeded Dr. department, has been appointed to suc• pill box, tossed in two hand-grenades Mr. Wall said, the railroads will be Division, Office of the Chief of Trans• Hanna as Assistant Medical Director. ceed him. and wiped out the enemy group. better able to determine the different portation, Washington, D. C. 10 Central Headlight

ten seconds and all the time he was crying, "I'll break my switch points! N.Y.C. Commended for Its Work at New York I'll break my switch points!" But he Central Headlight didn't, nor did he hold anything against Port of Embarkation me. And I still continued to "serve the Published monthly for New York Central System employes and their families Central." in eleven states and two provinces of Canada by the Department of Public Rela• This tower had been made experi• tions. Contributions are invited but no responsibility is assumed for their mental ground for interlocking put out return. Editorial offices, Room 1528, 466 Lexington Avenue, New York City. by the Beezer & Burley firm and was interesting to us boys because the de• Editor vice lay flat on the floor behind the C. W. Y. Currie levers and the working of every move• ment was in plain sight. We preferred Associate Editors it to the Johnson system, which was in Frank A. Judd C. A. Radford all the other towers, where the mecha• nism hung upright under the floor and Chicago Cincinnati could not easily be seen in action. The cabinets were simpler, too. I re• Volume 7 JANUARY, 1946 No. 1 call a very simple plunger that re• leased the home signal in the next tower. The Johnson device was more complicated and had a gadget that must be lifted, held, and placed in a Our Big Chance is Here certain slot, to be moved forward later. It caused me my only other failure as ONCE more we are off, rolling along the rails of time into a signal man. Visiting other towers, I another New Year. Ahead of us lie twelve months of words was always warmly welcomed and al• unspoken and deeds unachieved, shrouded in the mystery inherent lowed to exercise my ability with the in the future — yet potentially great in opportunity for every one of levers. One day at No. 14 1/2 I let the aforementioned gadget slip and stopped us and for our railroad. a southbound flyer bang in front of As an old and great company of workers, we have the satisfac• the tower. Hickey, the towerman, told tion of knowing that we have it in our power, in large part, to me later that in his report he had said that he let it slip. Again, no hard make these months what we will. Upon our established skills, our feelings. superb esprit de corps and, above all, in our acceptance of the Incidentally, it was regulations at knowledge that efficiency and courtesy must go hand in hand in our first that when a train was inadver• necessary service to the public, lie the guaranties that we can, and tently stopped, the towerman need only will, make the record a good one. display a green flag or lantern and the train could proceed. It was discovered, And good it must be, if we are to hold, unimpaired, our high so I was told, that in lonely places position among the great leaders in the transportation field. where there were only four levers (no switches), a night man would some• Up to the present, through the war period, Uncle Sam has been times hang the lantern in the window our chief customer. Competition has been slight and every unit, and and leave the tower for hours at a time. more, of our far-flung facilities has been needed for our vital So the regulations were changed and transport task. the towerman was obliged to hand the train conductor a signed slip. Now, as President Metzman warns in his Christmas Message, Pulling levers was not easy work the picture is changing. Today, Uncle Sam is fast becoming only and I raised a lump on my wrist that face, and wear long-sleeved, high- a relatively small customer. It is to industry, the mines, agriculture stayed with me several years. It was necked clothing which will expose as very different at Mott Haven and up and the import and export field that we must look for our business little of the skin as possible. the Harlem Division, where com• henceforth. Increasingly, as the year grows older, we must face pressed air did the hard work. While there is less hazard in the use of the powder form of DDT, keep stiff competition from other forms of transport on river and sea, on Through a relative in the Grand Cen• it in a well-labeled container marked the land and in the air. New and rival agencies already are fighting tral offices I obtained a pass from A. "Poison!" for a large share of the business we must have if we are to prosper. T. Dice, Superintendent of Signals, to visit the big tower in the Grand Cen• It's up to us to make the record — and with our unsurpassed tral Yards. After watching, from the '-THOUSANDS will mourn the pass- plant and the unexcelled equipment we have and are soon to get, front of the train, the locals take the ing too soon, of T. J. Hayes, 73, we can do it. Stiti better service, more individual attention to little flying switch as they approached" the retired Superintendent of the Ohio Di• RAILROAD men who reach the age old station, it was a thrill to see this vision. "Tom" Hayes, as he was known things, as well as to big ones, extra consideration for all who we of 65 in good health have an aver• same switch thrown from inside the to thousands of railroaders and more meet in our business and the exercise of all the courtesy we can tower. Needless to say, I never oper• age life thereafter of about 12 years, thousands of the public, was one of give, will do the trick. ated in this vital place. 5 months, insurance statistics disclose. the colorful figures of the railroaders Women railroad employes under sim• I am still interested in signal sys• of his time. A master in his own field Let's go! ilar circumstances have an average ex• of labor, he possessed a personality tems, but have not visited a tower for pectation of life of about 15 years, 5 which won friends galore. a long time. However, I did invite my• months. As usual, most of them get self recently to a meeting of our Min• the last word. neapolis Traffic Club to hear an illus• THE officers and men of three New trated lecture on the new central con• York Central - sponsored Railway OUT on the Line," a collection of trol system. It is amazing how much Battalions returned to New York re• sketches by two noted war art• territory one tower can now oversee. I cently, after valiant service overseas. ists, picturing action scenes along the In the Good Old noticed that there were no boys at the New York Central and particularly Lieut. Colonel Karl F. Emanuel and controls. among the Maintenance-of-Way folk, officers and men of the 721st arrived By Stanley R. Avery is the latest publication of the Adver• in New York late in November, on Chauncey Vibbard, tising Department. It is meeting a two ships. This Battalion was long in India. Days First Gen. Supt. merited popularity among all sections of the public and should do much to Col. Joseph E. Guilfoyle of the 701st of the N. Y. Central extend knowledge of some of the "Be• Railway Grand Division, a former Buf• Lads and Levels hind the Scene" factors, especially falo trainmaster, came back from serv• those relating to comfort and safety, ice in North Africa and Italy. THE following account of an adolescent's interest in a vital phase of railroad- that the ordinary passenger rarely Men and officers of the 718th, which ing was written by a Minneapolis man, now organist and choirmaster of learns as he rolls along in security and saw service on the Continent, returned St. Mark's Cathedral in that city. After finishing high school he worked for at his ease. December 3. the New York Central for three months in the office of the Car Accountant, C. H. Ewings, at New York, but soon made music his life work. For a time Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane! Last year's ornery Winter, in the he was organist at St. Andrews Memorial Church, Yonkers, where he met It's as formidable as its name — Buffalo district especially, set a record numerous New York Central men. Later he went to Minneapolis with James this DDT — unless directions are fol• which New York Central men will long E. Freeman, once a New York Central employe, who later became Bishop of lowed. Sure death to flies, roaches, remember. It seems likely to be re• Washington, D. C. fleas, and lice, DDT also can make peated this year. The five days' storm trouble for the user if care is not taken. which began around the middle of THE No Admittance sign on signal tower No. 13 looked most forbidding to In spite of its inherent toxicity, there December left five feet of snow in a railroad-minded boy of twelve and he stood gazing at it a long time be• will be no danger to the user if these places in the Buffalo area and blanketed fore, swallowing hard, he mounted the little stairway which ran up outside the two precautions are taken: the big freight yards for several days. beckoning building. 1. Avoid inhaling the spray. As a year ago, the valiant efforts of It was the early nineties and the new block-signal system had just been 2. Avoid skin contacts with the sub• the Buffalo forces to combat the ter• installed on the New York Central's Hudson River Division from Mott Haven stance, especially if it's mixed in an rific weather conditions received wide• northward. oily solution. spread commendation. Let's hope they Take care to spray away from the don't have to do it many times. I was that boy and after at least nine years of watching trains and other Shown above is a rare picture of right-of-way phenomena from our west windows, I was more than intrigued Chauncey Vibbard, the first General by the new devices I saw being installed: green semaphores, red semaphores, Superintendent of the New York Cen• hundreds of feet of galvanized wire strung through pulleys attached to short tral Railroad. Previously he was chief stakes, iron piping to switches and, most exciting of all, the tower. clerk of the Utica and Schenectady Letter of the Month It stood west of the tracks, just south of the Yonkers station, and con• Railroad, one of 10 little railroads, be• President, N.Y.C.R.R., Throughout the trip, the conductors trolled the long block from No. 12 at Ludlow, to the south, the short block tween Albany and Buffalo, which were Dear Sir: showed a deep and heart-warming in• from No. 14 at Wells Avenue, and a number of crossovers, most of them im• consolidated August I, 1853, to form terest in my comfort and safety, per• WOULD indeed be ungrateful if I mediately in front of the tower. the original New York Central Rail• sonally escorting me to and from failed to express my thanks to the My knock was answered by a pleas• tem, it was a foolproof operation and road. I cars, assuring me of a seat and com• conductors and personnel of the N. Y. I can recall only one slip. As General Superintendent, he is• fort. In Syracuse, where I changed ant faced, youngish man, who gave me Central Railroad on the Beacon, N. Y. sued the New York Central's Timetable trains, one of the railroad employes the great surprise of welcoming me The Yonkers Locals were running at to Cincinnati, Ohio, run, via Syra• or station guides, directed me to cordially. Towerman Woods and I be• that time; and, after visiting the turn• No. 1, During the Civil War, President cuse, N. Y. elevator service, since I was quite came very good friends and I visited table, the engine would come down as Lincoln appointed him Superintendent unsteady on steps. his "executive office" many times a far as the tower to be switched back of Military Railroads. In 1865, Mr. I was released from the Stewart week for several years. to the south end of the train. One day Vibbard resigned and went south to Field Hospital after my third opera• I sincerely wish to thank each and tion, necessitated by an injury re• every one for their aid and courtesies, Another youngster, a neighbor, soon I started the engine on the wrong engage in other business. He died in ceived overseas. I dreaded the trip, without which the trip would have joined me and for hours at a time we crossover. Woods noticed it after the Macon, Ga., June 5, 1891, at the age since being in bed so long had made been impossible. would run the tower, clearing trains locomotive had started to move and of 80. A nephew, retired N. Y. C. me quite weak. Had I known how Alfred P. Tadafeiski, did he jump to those levers! Nobody Freight Agent at Amsterdam, N. Y., through the blocks and doing all the wonderful the trip would be, I would T/Sergt. U. S. Air Corps, still lives there. switching. With the interlocking sys- ever worked faster than he for about have spared myself all that anxiety. Stewart Field, N. Y. Central Headlight 11

P. W. Kiefer Speaks tic problem of shipping fantastic war Refrigerator Car tonnage great distances. This 'adequate Old and New Railroad Bridges Over the Rhine Research Under Way reserve' is now to be applied to our At Dinner for Ennis peacetime reconversion. Its war record at Mainz, Germany The railroad refrigerator car of the has revitalized the railroads of Amer• future will provide more efficient and Predicting that new peacetime highs ica, and they are ready, willing, and dependable transportation of perish• in passenger as well as freight traffic able to assume the responsibility of ables as the result of extensive car tests will be attained by American railroads carrying ever-increasing loads of freight and research which will be conducted in the next decade, Dr. Joseph B. En- and passengers." during the next two years by the Asso• nis, senior vice-president of the Amer• ciation of American Railroads with the Contributions to railroad engineering ican Locomotive Company, rounded out cooperation of shippers, the refrigera• science by Dr. Ennis are known fifty years with that organization by tor car lines, the United States Depart• throughout the world. Locomotives he addressing 200 railroad executives, as• ment of Agriculture and other inter• helped to design include the Mallet, sociates, and scientific leaders at a din• ested agencies. Pacific, Hudson, and Yellowstone, and ner December 12, in his honor at the his creations operate in France, Eng• Suggested by the Refrigerator Car Waldorf-Astoria, New York. land, Germany, China, Spain, Portugal, Committee of the United Fresh Fruit The speakers included Paul W. Kie- India, and Latin America. and Vegetable Association, this research program will cover such things as car fer, Chief Engineer of Motive Power In a dramatic review of his own fifty and Rolling Stock, New York Central design, construction and use, refrigera• years in the science of locomotive engi• System. tion, heating, ventilation and vibration neering, Dr. Ennis told his audience and shock. Efforts will be made to de• Dr. Ennis scoffed at pre-war critics that the opportunities for young men in velop an all-purpose refrigerator car. of America's railroad system who railroading are greater today than they claimed that duplication was a threat were when he entered the industry as to railroad economy. an apprentice draftsman at Paterson, Lyons Enginehouse "The war proved that our vast rail• N. J., in 1895. Foreman Given Bond road system can be used 100 per cent Dr. Ennis predicted a new and greater Charles Fleck, Enginehouse Fore• capacity and," he said, "it became an place for diesel power in locomotion. man at Lyons, Ill., who retired re• 'adequate reserve' in solving the gigan• He also predicted eventual harnessing cently after 42 years' service was the guest of honor at a dinner given by the supervisors of the District, at the Between Runs Hotel Wolford at Danville, Ill. At left is shown the old bridge as it looked after it was destroyed by the I am persuaded that everytime a man smiles—but much Germans in their hasty retreat from General Patton's famous Third Army. Mr. Fleck began his railroading ca• more so when he laughs — it adds something to this fragment The bridge at the right, named for President Roosevelt, was built by U. S. reer when he was 15 years of age. of life." — Sterne. Army Engineers in nine and one-half days and was one of the chief learning the machinist trade on the arteries for movement of supplies to the front. The section of railroad from Erie Railroad. In 1903, he went to Joe Laurie, Jr., Sez: Bad Kreuznach through Mainz, Frankfort and to Hanau, was operated by the Peoria & Eastern Railroad at Ur- the 718th Railway Operating Battalion, sponsored by the New York Central bana, Illinois and in 1918, he went to Name Please? Laurie Prillosophy System. This line ran over the new bridge, which had a span of 2221 feet Lyons as Enginehouse Foreman. A fellow was arrested and taken to a po• "Always be on time in keeping an ap• and an overall length of 4502 feet. The pictures were sent by First Lieut. lice station. pointment. It gives you a chance to rest up V. V. Crouch of the 718th. E. J. Buckbee, Master Mechanic, "What's your name?" asked the desk while waiting for the other fellow." Sergeant. "Face powder may catch a man, but it Mattoon, presented Mr. Fleck with a "Size-six McFadden," replied the man. takes baking powder to hold him." of atomic power and application of covered for railroading as well as other Victory Bond and another gift from "That's a funny name, Size-six," re• "Courage is fear that has said its marked the desk Sergeant. prayers." this new energy and others yet undis- power-motivated industries. the group. "That really is not my name," declared McFadden, "as a matter of fact my name is SIX-AND-SEVEN-EIGHTHS!" "I don't get you," said the bewildered Sergeant. "Well, you see, when I was born, my parents didn't know what to call me," ex• plained McFadden, "so, they put a lot of names in a hat and by mistake my father pulled out the size of the hat!"

Service A tramp accosted a young girl. "Lady," he said, "I haven't had a bite in days." So she bit him!

No Sale A New York City salesman was trying to sell a Moron an automobile. "Is it a good car?" asked the Gooferou. "It's a swell car," assured the salesman. "Is it fast?" "Very fast," replied the salesman. "In fact, if you got into this car at eight o'clock at night, you'd be in Brooklyn at four in the morning." "I'll think it over," said the mental de• linquent, and left. The next day, he entered and collared the salesman. , "I don't want the car," he said, "because all night long I racked my brains and I can't think of one single reason why I should be in Brooklyn at four o'clock in the morning!"

Fair Enough Finnegan rushed to the assistance of Clancy who was shooting it out with a Jap sniper in a wooded corner of Guadalcanal! "Keep away, Finnegan," commanded Clancy angrily. "Go get your own Jap!"

Bar & Grill Stuff A drunk went into a New York gin em• porium. "Give me two glasses of whiskey for me and my friend," he ordered. "Where's your friend?" asked the genial bartender. "He's away out in California," replied the drunk. The bartender smiled and set one glass of whiskey on the bar. "I want TWO glasses of whiskey," in• sisted the drunk, "one for me and one for my friend." "I can't give your friend a glass of whiskey: he's in California." The drunk smiled and said, "Ah, I was just kiddin' you, he ain't way out in Cali• fornia; he's only in Cleveland!"

Efficiency A Co-ordinator brings organized chaos out of regimented confusion.

Don't Blame Him "What are you mad about?" "When I asked the butcher for ten cents worth of dog meat, the butcher said, 'Shall I wrap it up or will you eat it here?' "

Matter of Pronunciation An Irishman went to the beach and saw a little Jewish fellow sitting on the sand sunning himself. "How's the water?" asked the Irishman. "Luke warm," replied the little Bronx- man. So the Irishman took a deep breath and dove into the sea. He came up shivering and shaking. "What's the idea of t-t-telling m-me the w-w-water was luke warm?" he demanded angrily. "Veil," explained the innocent one, "it LUKED WARM TO ME!"

Kid Stuff I like a kid to sing even if he sings off key. You can tell where he is.

See the Point? A fellow was spinning wild yarns to Clancy and a crowd about his numerous adventures — how he flew over the Alps with one wing broken — how he discovered gold in Alaska by stumbling over a rock. After he was through dreaming it up, he left his bewildered listeners. One of them addressed Clancy, "What do you think of that guy's adventures?" he asked. "He reminds me of a steer's horns," said Clancy, "a point here — a point there — and an awful lot of bull in between!"

Politics I gave up arguing politics a long time ago. It's too much like trying to. convince an apple tree it ought to give cocoanuts! 12 Central Headlight Chicago

South Bend's "Pistol Packing Mamma' St Louis Chief Clerk Chicago Police Chief Clerk Winning Fame Back from Navy Post as a Prestidigitator Warren H. White, furloughed Chief Clerk in the New York Central's St. Louis office, who entered the Navy De• cember 27, 1941, and rose to be a Lieu• tenant Commander, is now back at work. In March, 1942, he was assigned to command the U.S.S. YMS-88 and in June of that year was promoted to Lieutenant (j.g). In March, 1943, he was promoted to Lieutenant. In a few months he was assigned to the Sub• chaser Training Center at Miami. In October, 1943, he was made Executive Officer of the U.S.S. Austin (DE-15) and in May of 1944 was made com• mander of the same ship. He was promoted to Lieutenant Commander last March.

Join the March of Shown above is Miss Wilma Bontrager, of the Railway Express Agency at South Bend, Ind, Because of her connection with the financial end of the local office, she and her armament are well known to New York Central Dimes this Month employes at South Bend. The annual March of Dimes Cam• paign, to dramatize the battle against infantile paralysis, will be conducted This Sign Welcomes Returning Warriors from January 14 to 31 by the Na• tional Foundation for Infantile Paraly• sis. Basil O'Connor, President of the Foundation, urged that railroad em• ployes contact their local March of Shown above is Glenn Viall, Chief Clerk, in the Office of J. T. Husum, Chief Dimes committees in communities of Police, La Salle Street Station, and some of the apparatus he uses in giving where they live and volunteer their shows as a magician. The familiar rabbit in the hat is at the left and at the cooperation. right is Oscar, a skull which he makes disappear. In his hands are golf balls, which he brings into view apparently from nowhere. More than 13,000 men, women and children in the United States were About as interesting a hobby as we ages 25 to 30 shows a year and has victims of infantile paralysis in 1945, can think of is that of Glenn Viall, managed to turn his hobby to a profit. making it the fourth highest year on Chief Clerk in the office of J. T. Hu- record. Hospitalization for this dread Glenn is a pupil of Dr. Harlan Tar- sum, Chief of Police, La Salle Street disease, one of the most expensive bell, noted magician, author, inventor Station, Chicago, who in his spare time known to medicine, costs more than and lecturer on magic. He is a member is a magician, and a good one, at that. $2,500 a year, and in 1945 the Foun• of the Chicago Assembly No. 3, So• dation disbursed over $1,000,000 in Glenn, who describes himself as a ciety of Magicians, and the Wizards' emergency aid to epidemic areas, sup• prestidigitator, which, according to the Club of Chicago. He is also a holder plementing funds of local chapters. dictionary, means one skilled in leger• of the Ebony Wand awarded by the demain, or sleight of hand, has made In this month's drive for funds to Wizards' Club for the best performance magic his hobby for the last seven support the Foundation's fight against in open contest to member magicians. years. Today he ranks as a semi-profes• paralysis, New York Central employes His specialty is comedy magic, avoid• sional and has performed before clubs, will undoubtedly want to assist in ing the heavy mystery type of work. churches, and other organizations in every way they can. th Chicago territory, including such Glenn started with the New York New York Central groups as the New Central in 1931 and has been con- nected with the Police Department Jackson Man Resigns York Central Square Club and the I.H.B. Athletic Association. He aver• throughout his entire service. Cary B. Darling, Claim Agent, Jackson, Mich., for 16 years, resigned December 1, to engage in business at Sons Return Home Atlanta, Georgia. Watch Self for These Symptoms Consult your doctor at once, if any Hospital Likes "Com• of the following symptoms are present: pany Manners" 1. A sore that does not heal, par• ticularly about the tongue, mouth J. A. Quinlan, Director of Volun• or lips. teers at St. Vincent's Hospital, New York City, recently saw a copy of the 2. A painless lump or thickening, booklet on courtesy issued by the especially in the breast, lip or New York Central System and en• tongue. titled Company Manners. This booklet 3. Irregular bleeding or discharge was distributed to the Central's em• from any natural body opening or ployes. the Agent's and Auditor Freight Ac• nipple. Mr. Quinlan was so impressed with counts' offices. The game of Hearts was Weehawken Man Back its format and contents that he ap• 4. Progressive change in the color from Overseas enjoyed and Miss McDonald was pre• plied for a sufficient number of or size or a wart, mole or birth• sented with a set of dishes, service for copies for distribution to the doctors, mark. twelve. internes and other hospital person• 5. Persistent indigestion. Miss McDonald and Sergt. Bernard nel who meet the public. Swieringa, furloughed clerk in Agent's Many similar requests from busi• 6. Persistent hoarseness, unexplained office, were married at the South Side ness firms and large and small or• cough, or difficulty in swallowing. ganizations of all types have been Christian Church, Hammond, Ind., in 7. Any change in normal bowel habits. received. a candlelight, double ring ceremony. Cancer, discovered early, is curable.

Two sons of E. C. O'Brien, a tele• Chicago Information and Reservation Clerks Learn Telephone Technique graph operator at Tower A, Paris, Ill., have returned from military service. Jack E. O'Brien, right, served with the Eighth Air Force in England and has resumed his position in the Signal De• partment. James R., left, was with the 87th Infantry Division, serving in Eng• land, France, Belgium and Germany.

New York Man Has 50 Years' Service Charles B. Bazzone, Clerk in the Sergt. Clarence W. Barker, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence W. Barker, Sr., office of W. H. Flynn, General Super• of Bergenfield, N. J., recently returned intendent, Motive Power & Rolling from 32 months overseas duty with the Stock, completed 50 years on Decem• Army. He was honorably discharged ber 1. from Fort Dix. He served in North Africa, He started as a clerk at West 65th Italy, France, Germany, and Austria. Street in 1895, transferred to the While in Italy on some time off, he saw Superintendent Rolling Stock's office some of the scenery by way of a bicycle. on July 12, 1915, and to his pres• Before Sergt. Barker entered the service of his country he was employed by the ent position on January 1, 1930. Thus New York Central as a brakeman at 50 years of service was in the Equip• Weehawken. ment Department. Fellow workers presented him with a wallet and War Bond. Gibson Bride Feted "One moment, please," with a smile in the voice and the caller will gladly wait. That's what the Chicago Information The presentation of these gifts, Miss Elaine McDonald, Interchange and Reservation Clerks believe will make and keep friends for the New York Central. Shown here practicing with Mrs. together with a Gold Annual Pass, Clerk, Agent's office, Gibson, Ind., was Kathryn Bargelt, Telephone Courtesy Director, are, left to right: Eugene Schmiel, Cecilia Hartman, Bernice Weber; was made by J. A. Brossart, Assistant honored at a pre-nuptial party in East R. A. Schrey, Chief Information Clerk; Mildred Woods; S.J. Jackson, Manager; Olga Vignocchi; S. W. Bone, Assist• to General Superintendent, Rolling Chicago, Ind., given by the girls of ant General Passenger Agent; Thelma Schofield, Aileen Kelly and Mrs. Bargelt. Stock.