CENTRAL AND PENNSYLVANIA OFFICERS MEET TO DISCUSS STATUS OF PROPOSED MERGER.

NYC-Pennsy Officers Meet; Start Joint Planning Officers of New York Central and the "Effective immediately, in the interest of met Jan. 1 and 11 in improved service to the public, we will coor• Seaview, N. J. Following a discussion of the dinate the design of locomotives and freight pending merger application of the two roads, cars and track material. We are directing all they embarked on a program of close coop• departments to make joint use of such avail• eration in joint planning. able facilities as fuel oil tanks. Joint use of After expressing confidence that the mer• locomotives will also start immediately, and MEDAL OF VALOR AWARD highlights 49-year career of ger would receive early approval from the we will make joint use of our testing and William J. Bowen (above, right) as John J. Danhof, Hudson Interstate Commerce Commission, Alfred E. research facilities." Division Superintendent, presents award in Grand Central Station. In photo at top right, Mr. Bowen is shown at age 14 Perlman, President of the Central, and Stuart The boards of directors of the two railroads when he was "West Side Cowboy" leading NYC trains down met for dinner in Seaview the evening before 10th Ave. in . At right, the medal winner is T. Saunders, Chairman of the Pennsylvania, shown as he works with switching crew in New York City. said: the officers' meeting.

Progress in Coal Trans• still remaining above our costs, by tons and operating on fast, shuttle Valor Medal Awarded tying rates to both volume and time." schedules." he said. "There will be no port Cited by NYC Official Mr. Hoffman said this new concept delays for assemblying, switching, or New York Central Hero Railroads are going to enlarge the in rate-making helped eastern roads classifying of these trains." market for coal by increasing the to overcome the threat of a proposed At the age of 14, Mr. Bowen became one of Central's Mr. Hoffman also cited the closing efficiency of its transportation, Wayne coal slurry pipeline from eastern Ohio A 63-year old grandfather who works for the New famous "West Side Cowboys." Five feet tall, he weighed down of the only existing coal pipe• M. Hoffman, Executive Vice Presi• to the plants of the Detroit Edison York Central System joined a distinguished group of in at just over 100 lbs. Mounted on an ex-Army saddle line, which transported coal from dent of the New York Central System, Company. In this case, he explained, his fellow employes on December 9 when he was awarded horse, he rode ahead of all engines and trains on Tenth southern Ohio to the Cleveland Elec• declared in an address before the "comprehensive engineering studies" the railroad's Medal of Valor for risking his own life to Avenue, Canal and Hudson Streets, signaling oncomers tric Illuminating Company. This was Energy Transportation Conference in enabled the railroads to reduce the save another. to clear the way. He has been with the railroad for the accomplished, he said, by "more effi• St. Louis. coal rate 37.5 cents a ten on the first Brakeman William J. Bowen was working with a past 49 years. cient utilization of the inherent effi• Mr. Hoffman described how the six million tons a year and 50 cents switching engine crew on the banks of the , The Valor Medal presentation took place in front of ciencies of rail transportation." railroad industry has met successfully a ton on any additional amounts. just above Marble Hill Station in , N. Y., on a bronze plaque, bearing the names of previous recip• competition from gas, oil, and coal "We soon came to the realization, "The four railroads involved were Saturday afternoon, September 28. At approximately ients, at the west end of 's main pipelines in recent years. however, that rate revisions, alone, able to do this by offering the Cleve• 3:42 p.m., he heard cries for help. waiting room. Mr. Bowen's name will be inscribed here. "We knew that the competitive weren't enough," he said. "We real• land Electric Illuminating Company Some forty feet away, four year old Peter Mazzurco Conducting the ceremony, John J. Danhof, Jr., Hudson struggle for the available markets ized that we had to revise our oper• an average rate of $1.88 per ton, com• had toppled into the swift current of the Harlem River Division Superintendent, said that "the devotion to would be decided on the basis of actual ations, too, in order to take full ad• pared to the pipeline rate of $2.47 to near the treacherous Spuyten Duyvil whirlpool. His humanity displayed by this veteran railroader is part of costs and rates, not on charts and vantage of the basic efficiencies of $2.65 per ton." brother, Dominick, age seven, was shouting to the New a long standing tradition on the Central." arguments proving a theoretical effi• rail transportation." He asserted that railroads intend to York Central crew. Brakeman Bowen is the 114th New York Central em• ciency,' he said. Mr. Hoffman said that operating make continued improvements in ex• Mr. Bowen ran from the locomotive to the rocks where ploye to receive a Valor Medal since the award was "The first and most obvious com• improvements will permit a reduction press-shuttle operations. "We will use the boys had been playing. Without hesitation, he dove created in 1926. In that year Central president Patrick petitive action open to us was a thor• in the coal transportation rate from high-capacity cars in solid trains re• into the water. E. Crowley designated the Medal as an honor for em• ough examination and a realistic re• southern Indiana to the Chicago Com• quiring no switching or classification, Carried downstream by the forceful current, the boy ployes who risk their lives to save another person from vision of our rates," he continued. monwealth Edison Company's plant moving at reasonably high speeds was by then in the middle of the river. As Mr. Bowen serious injury or death. "Rate patterns . . . had become di• near Hammond, Ind., from $3.07 a ton over the most direct routes between swam after him, Peter disappeared from sight. In re• Four of Mr. Bowen's fellow recipients have also been vorced from the underlying costs of to $1.45 a ton on a minimum annual producer and consumer, being loaded peated attempts, the 63-year old brakeman failed to honored by the U.S. Government: two were awarded providing the service. We made exten• movement of 1.3 million tons. and unloaded on the move, and making locate the boy. Notified by the railroad, New York City Congressional Medals of Honor at the recommendation sive studies and discovered that we "This new rate applies to coal mov• more than three times the number of Police recovered Peter's body an hour later. of the Interstate Commerce Commission. could set more competitive coal rates, ing in solid trains carrying 10,000 trips made today."

2 New York Central Headlight Jan.-Feb. 1964 3 Grand Central Makes History As Gala Ballroom

CROWDED DANCE FLOOR showed that everyone at party was having a splendid time. In left back• ground is new escalator in Grand Central Terminal from Pan-Am Building. At far right is Maestro Guy Lombardo smiling at girl vocal• ists who helped entertain guests.

The main concourse of Grand Cen• tral Terminal was transformed into a gaily decorated ballroom on New Year's Eve when 3,000 formally at• BUSY TERMINAL by day and lavish ballroom by night tired guests attended a mammoth PART OF GALA CROWD attending Bell Ringer Ball for Mental Health held is shown in two photos above. Elaborate garlands of col• charity function. New Year's Eve in Grand Central Terminal. More than 3,000 formally clad guests ored balloons hang from Geiling. Sponsor of the gala event, called the came to the charity event. Net proceeds are used to support research and general Bell Ringer Ball for Mental Health, programs of National Association for Mental Health. was the National Association for ARTIST'S DRAWING Mental Health. The net proceeds of shows how 50-year-old ter• the ball will support the Association's minal appears as gaily research and general programs. hour program of dance music and choice table locations. the famous Four Seasons restaurant, decorated ballroom. This unprecedented charity affair surprise guest stars over the CBS All entrances to the main concourse donated gift packages and valuable in Grand Central also served as a coast-to-coast network. Mr. Lombardo and its balconies were closed to the door prizes. celebration of the terminal's fiftieth and his orchestra performed for the public at 9 p.m. The new Pan Am Assisting in the ticket sales, decora• anniversary. The station was com• party guests before and after his Building served as a grand entrance tions and souvenir program publica• pleted in 1913 from plans of Warren telecast. to the ball. Guests arrived at the tion for the affair was the New York & Wetmore and Reed & Stem on the Round tables, each seating ten per• building's Vanderbilt Avenue lobby, City Junior Chamber of Commerce. CONDUCTOR'S CAP is site of an earlier depot built by Com• sons, occupied all of Grand Central's checked their coats at facilities set up Peter Dennant, president of the group, explained that at the recent tried on for size by Guy modore Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1871. rotunda and balconies. Upper level in the decorative Pan Am foyers and Lombardo, whose Royal Jaycee National Convention in Louis• Guy Lombardo, who has become as passenger traffic from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. descended to the "ballroom" by esca• Canadians played for Bell much a part of New Year's Eve as was rerouted to the lower level. Plat• lators. ville, Kentucky, a resolution was Ringer Ball in Grand Cen• balloons and confetti, conducted his forms and railings were placed atop In addition to dancing and the passed to aid all efforts being made tral Terminal. Checking traditional television show from the the elongated New York Central and Lombardo show, the festivities in• in the field of mental health through• fit is Stephen T. Keiley, Bell Ringer Ball. He presented a one- New Haven ticket offices to provide cluded a champagne supper catered by out the country. Terminal Manager.

4 New York Central Headlight Jan.-Feb. 1964 5 'Data Central' Opens, NYC President Discusses Post Office Expands Use of Flexi-Van for Mail Switches Messages Technology on Rails Automatically Expanding technology and in• creased competition have forced rail• New York Central Railroad recently roads to re-examine many of their announced the opening of "Data Cen• standard practices, Alfred E. Perl• tral"—the first railroad application of man, President of the New York Cen• Portable Containers Help electronic equipment for automatic tral System, said in a recent address. assembly and distribution of messages Speaking before the annual meet• U.S. Post Office Speed and other data. Messages started flow• ing of the Association of American ing through the new system Oct. 16. Railroads' Mechanical Division, Mr. Data Central is a new concept in Movement of Bulk Mail Perlman said that "despite a long his• data collection and handling of infor• tory of technological innovation, cer• mation. Its nerve center is a computer- tain railroad tools and practices tend type device which acts as a classifica• New York Central recently an• to become fixed and standardized. Just tion and distribution point for all nounced the expanded use of Flexi- as in many other long-established in• messages and data transmitted Van, the coordinated rail-highway- dustries, some methods go unchanged, throughout Central's 10,300-mile sys• indeed unchallenged, for many years. water-air container, for faster inter• tem. "The modern revolution in both city movement of United States mail. The $1.5 million electronic miracle NYC PRESIDENT Alfred E. Perlman competition and technology forces a During a demonstration at New has been developed to Central's speci• addressing Association of American drastic re-evaluation of standard York City, which was attended by fications by the Communications & Railroads' Mechanical Division during practices, and railroad mechanical de• U. S. Assistant Postmaster General Data Systems Division of Collins annual meeting in Chicago. partments today find it necessary to William J. Hartigan, Wayne M. Hoff• Radio Company. search for new materials and methods weight capacity, which have greater man, Executive Vice President of the NYC design to meet these rapidly changing con• versatility and a higher load factor, Central, said, "Expansion of this serv• FORTY FOOT FLEXI-VAN is swung into position for coupling with U.S. Mail ditions," he said. and which are designed for more eco• ice presents the Post Office Depart• tractor and movement to intercity postal facility in New York City. Photo above The specification was prepared un• Railroad mechanical experts are be• nomical maintenance." ment with an opportunity to further shows Flexi-Van operations in NYC's High Bridge Yard in the Bronx. der the direction of Robert C. Karv- coming more conscious of shippers' Mr. Perlman said railroads today utilize Flexi-Van as a fast, efficient watt, Central's Director of Communi• needs, he said. The traditional em• also are studying the materials-han• means of transporting mail." The new 40-foot Flexi-Vans are ample of progress vital to our growth cations. It has been adopted by the phasis upon the maintenance of equip• dling problems of shippers. "If you Mr. Hoffman revealed that Central equipped with side doors which roll —one more example of what the Cen• manufacturer as a standard for other ment is changing into the "larger and can save the shipper a hundred dollars has spent $3 million for 250 new up, rather than the conventional tral is doing to help its customers, the industries and will be the guide in more complex considerations" con• public and itself," Mr. Hoffman said. in the loading and bracing of his Flexi-Vans and the renovation of 100 swing-out doors. This development construction of similar equipment for cerning the type of equipment to be The coordinated service, presently freight, you've done as good a job Flexi-Van rail cars for the movement facilitates loading and unloading. The other industrial users. used. for him as if the freight rate had limited in operation between Chicago of mail in high-speed passenger vans also are equipped with conven• Data Central "polls" each station He said that newly developed types been reduced a hundred dollars per and Detroit and other Michigan cities, trains. tional swing-out rear doors. in the network, recognizing message of equipment reflect the "evolving car," he said. will be utilized throughout the Cen• During the demonstration that The renovated rail cars are priorities and traffic requirements needs" of railroad customers. "Con• To illustrate the qualities needed tral's entire system. morning at Central's High Bridge equipped with high-speed passenger automatically. If a circuit is avail• sider, for a moment, how quickly the by the "new breed" of railroad me• At such major points as New York service wheel units, steam hose con• able, a message will go through Data 55-ton hopper became economically chanical officer, Mr. Perlman quoted Yard, Bronx, New York, one man City, Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, nections to conduct heat to passenger Central in micro-seconds to its des• obsolete upon the advent of the 70-ton a verse from Rudyard Kipling's Just- transferred a Flexi-Van container, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Buffalo, De• cars further back in the train and tination. If the addressed station is hopper. And it's already clear now So Stories: loaded with bulk mail, from a rail unit troit and Boston, mail loaded in Flexi- busy, the processor device stores the that the modern integral train will "I keep six honest serving men, to a highway vehicle in less than four new brakes. Vans will be transported without information and forwards it when the soon make the 70-ton hopper obsolete, They taught me all I knew, minutes. This method of transfer "Here we are inaugurating an ex• time-consuming and costly transfers. line is available, which is usually frac• too." Their names are What and Why completely eliminates intermediate panded service which utilizes new Service schedules will be designated tions of a second later. Mr. Perlman noted that the stand• and When, handling—loading and unloading of techniques and equipment to provide to meet the Post Office Department's The 259 message and data sending ard 40-foot boxcar is now being re• And How and Where and Who." shipments at various points. better service. This is one more ex• requirements. and receiving points on the New York placed by 50-foot cars and that 50- "Men who are able to use these Central are tied together by 57,764 foot cars are already facing competi• servants intelligently every day, and miles of circuits, all under the control tion from 60- and 85-foot cushioned who are also able to employ common of Data Central. underframe cars. "Serious competi• sense, good economics, and construc• A study of New York Central's tion to the boxcar itself is also coming tive discontent — these are the men communications over the past decade from the container and the covered who will make the discoveries and the revealed that the growth of data proc• hopper," he said. improvements, large and small, that essing and data collection on the rail• Railroads are "designing cars our industry and our nation need to• road was almost explosive, and that which are more easily loaded and un• day and will need in the coming the rate of growth and demand for loaded, which have a higher cubic and years." additional information is at its high• est point right now. The use of mod• ern data processing techniques have brought with them the need for fast, rectly into storage units for future freight service personnel are able to accurate, reliable communications. handling, or translated to magnetic give customers more rapid informa• Data Central is the result of Central's tape for filing purposes. The memory tion on freight car locations as well studies in this area. device also contains a special storage as dates and times of arrivals. In addition to its vast and rapid basin for railroad traffic data, which Other features of Data Central in• message switching capability, Data is funneled to the Central's freight clude automatic message accounting, Central also permits complete mes• service bureau. With Data Central assuring message transmission. It sage-records to be kept in any form providing them with accurate infor• also "remembers" messages for log• of code. These recordings are fed di- mation more quickly, the railroad's ging or re-transmission.

6 New York Central Headlight HEADLIGHT Hilites

Time in all Bostons . . . of the world is told by the new time center in Boston's Press Club. The center was a gift to the club from Railroad Community Committee of New England and Bulova Watch Co. Herbert H. Harwood (center), Executive Representative of President of NYC, attended presentation.

A fond farewell . . . by NYC Conductor J. P. Sheridan is given long• time commuter Mrs. Helen Jones on her last commute from Pleasantville to New York City. Plaque from NYC honored Mrs. Jones' 37 years and 555,000 miles of commuting on Central.

NYC's contribution . . . to the 1964 United Foundation appeal is presented by Larry tral's William B. Salter, Indianapolis, presents a check for McCraven (far right, above), District Freight Salesman at $150,000 to Indiana's Governor Welsh. Sum is NYC's advance Detroit. The pretty miss is Mary Ellen Frahm, this year's "Miss payment on new sales tax for Indiana. NYC was among firms Torchy." She accepted donations from representatives of rail• paying in advance so that Indiana could use the money to keep roads serving Detroit. In the right-hand photo, New York Cen• schools in operation.

Traffic Club of Detroit . . . recently held its 40th annual dinner and meeting. On hand for the occasion were (from left) : George M. Casady, Assistant Vice President, NYC Northern District; A. H. Hart, Canadian National Railways; J. G. Patten, Vice President, NYC; Harry A. San• ders, Grand Trunk Western Railroad.

Recognition Night . . . was held recently at Elkhart, NYC's Frontier Yard . . . Ind., for NYC pensioners. box car cleaning facility was shown in scale model From left: NYC's R. A. form at railroad display held recently in Erie Struble; State Senator Jack County Savings Bank, Buffalo. Checking over dis• Mankin; John Dinehart, Pres• play are (from left): Robert V. Brinkworth, Divi• ident, Elkhart Railroad Y; sion Superintendent at Buffalo; Albert P. Walls, Charles Minser, President of Division Passenger Sales Manager, Buffalo; and Pensioner Club. Arthur E. Jones, Administrative Assistant.

8 New York Central Headlight Jan-Feb. 1964 W. M. Hoffman Describes Coal Trains NYC Auto Traffic Continues to Improve As Effective New Marketing Tool New York Central has inaugurated New York Central has gained $65 rapid growth of highway, airway and the nation's first all-automobile train million worth of new business through waterway systems. He said that rail• to speed auto-makers' finished prod• the use of "effective marketing tech• roaders "had fallen prey to a sort of ucts to east coast markets on a daily niques," Wayne M. Hoffman, Execu• monopoly psychosis," which prevented "passenger train" schedule. tive Vice President of the Central, them from seeing that strong, new Alfred E. Perlman, President of Last issue the first of a series of articles on cour• BEWARE OF BROADCASTING competition had arisen. tesy appearing in this space pointed out that cour• declared in a recent address in the Central, has predicted that the Voicing criticism in pub• "We passed from a state of euphoric Chicago. number of autos transported by the tesy is like oil. It keeps our daily contacts with lic is bad for Public Rela• unconcern to one of near panic. As This new busines, Mr. Hoffman Central in the 1964 model year will be each other and the public running smoothly. It tions. If your remarks are our business declined, we tended to said, has offset erosion of freight and 30 per cent greater than the half prevents the friction that wastes energy and gen• about a customer, others over emphasize the inequities in our million carried in the 1963 model year. passenger revenues to subsidized who overhear will feel that situation while at the same time, like erates heat under the collar. Here are some more The new train is reaching Selkirk similar things are said be• transportation, such as the St. Law• a fighter who has lost his nerve, we tips on the practice of courtesy that will result in yard near Albany, N. Y., on an 18- hind their backs. If your rence Seaway and the motor carriers began to doubt our own abilities," he hour schedule from Detroit. winning public good will for the Central and you. criticism concerns a rail• using federally sponsored super• stated. Automobiles from Michigan leave road employe or depart• highways. "In recent years, however, the Detroit at midnight on the specially- ment, it shakes the hearer's Mr. Hoffman, who spoke before the railroad industry has begun to take built tri-level cars, pick up additional confidence. transportation marketing meeting of steps necessary to achieve success automobiles in Ohio, and arrive at the Railway Systems and Manage• in the present competitive environ• Selkirk yard at 7 p.m. ment Association, said that a new ment." He noted that New York Automobiles for Albany and the WATCH YOUR SLANGUAGE philosophy of railroad transportation Central is "bursting with plans and upstate New York area are ready for utilizing the true concept of market• ideas" and that it has tapped huge distribution to dealers at Selkirk 30 Slang sounds slack and ing is emerging to make railroads a markets in the transportation of auto• minutes after arrival. The rest of the unbusiness-like. And it is growth industry. mobiles, Flexi-Vans, coal, cement, and loaded tri-levels are switched into apt to be misunderstood by perishable and general commodities. Central's new business is the result trains for Little Ferry, N. J., and customers. So are technical of formal marketing programs for Framingham, Mass., for distribution railroad terms. In talking the automobile, agriculture and food, to New York and New England met• to patrons, watch your slan• chemical, coal and metal industries, ropolitan area dealers. ARE YOU guage. Try to use clear, Mr. Hoffman noted. A PROMISING RAILROADER? simple words that cannot Longest Welded Rail possibly give a bad impres• To meet competition, he said, In all dealings with the public, be careful of promises. Make Installed in Commuter Zone sion or cause confusion. Central decided it must become mar• them only when their fulfillment is reasonably certain. Noth• ket oriented and consequently estab• The New York Central Railroad re• ing shakes a customer's confidence in the railroad so com• lished a new marketing organization. cently completed installation of the pletely or earns more ill will than a rashly made promise that "We realized that the philosophy of longest stretch of welded rail ever is not kept. marketing would have to permeate the laid in its New York commuter elec• entire organization; that we would trified zone. The 3.8 mile length of have to consider our customers' basic continuous rail was laid in express track No. 2 between Mott Haven and needs before our own." Marble Hill. This section of track car• "One of the first actions we took," ries the major part of the daily com• Mr. Hoffman said, "was to make a muter traffic on the Hudson Division clear distinction between selling and into Grand Central Terminal. Each marketing, which are two quite dif• UNDECIDED "ribbon" rail is 1,330-ft. long, com• TRAVELERS ferent functions, each with its own pared with the standard rail length DELAYS William E. Burchard (left), Carman Ap• special requirements. Principally, of 39-ft. Unique in this installation SEEM LIKE Now and then you may be questioned by a traveler who prentice at Central's DeWitt Yard (Syra• selling considers the needs of the is the fact that these quarter-mile DALLYING cannot seem to make up his mind about which train to take, cuse), has been named an "Outstanding seller; that is, his need to sell a prod• lengths of rail were welded together whether or not to check his grip or some similar problem. Carman Apprentice" of the year by the When you have to leave a customer for any reason, be sure uct which has already been produced. rather than joined by splice bars. The Perhaps he is merely confused, or he may lack information. National Railroad Apprenticeship Confer• he understands why and how long you will be gone. Unex• On the other hand, marketing consid• longer rails and the welding of joints Be careful not to show impatience. Try to help him clarify his ence. plained delays are apt to seem like dallying, stalling, ineffi• ers the needs of the customer first, eliminate the familiar "click-clack" thoughts and reach a decision. For here, again, tact makes At a luncheon in Syracuse, Robert F. ciency. So always try to set a time limit, and then get back but insure a smoother ride for pas• friends while brusqueness makes enemies. and it attempts to fill those needs Batchman, Mechanical Superintendent of the before the customer expects you! sengers. With the completion of this in the most efficient and satisfying Central's Eastern District, formally pre• installation there are now approxi• manner." sented Mr. Burchard with a certificate and mately 10 miles of welded rail in the LITTLE WORDS ON A BIG JOB In order to carry out this new pro• lapel pin issued by the Conference. Mr. commuter electrified zone. gram, he pointed out that Central also Burchard is the only man from the Eastern Please. Thank you. I'm sorry. Excuse me. I beg your par• established "a market research and District to receive the award. don. All such little words of courtesy do a big job in building planning unit to make detailed studies Mr. Burchard entered the service of the Piggyback Began With better Public Relations. So let's form the habit of using them generously. of the transportation requirements of Central as a Carman Apprentice in June, Circus Wagon Movement BREAKING IN particular industries and of indi• 1960, and has finished 836 days out of a Modern piggyback goes back as far IS A vidual shippers. This group acts as a total of 1,040 days required for the com• BAD BREAK logistics consultant for customers and pletion of his apprenticeship program. as 1830 when circus wagons were coordinates the Central's own efforts A native of Syracuse, Mr. Burchard is 21, moved on railroad flatcars. In the When another employe is talking to a customer, avoid in• terrupting except in case of real emergency. Even then, explain to develop and sell new services." married, and resides in Brewerton. He is a 1880's, Long Island farmers moved their produce wagons to New York your reason and apologize for the interruption. Breaking in Mr. Hoffman said that during the graduate of Phoenix Central High School City on flatcars—the horses went needlessly makes a customer feel unimportant ... a bad last three decades railroads lost their and has taken supplemental work during along in boxcars on the same train. break in Public Relations. monopoly position as a result of the the evening at Syracuse Central High School.

10 New York Central Headlight Jan.-Feb. 1964 11 A "new transportation era" in the Employes Move Into New Posts on NYC United States was predicted recently New Transportation Era Seen by John F. Nash, Senior Vice Presi• SYSTEM MARKETING dent of the NYC System. By J. F. Nash in Toronto Talk F. L. Kattau has been appointed J. Douglas Dickson is NYC's newly Speaking at the 29th annual dinner Assistant to President-Administra• appointed Manager of Metal Indus• of the Toronto Railway Club, in To• tion. try Services. ronto's the Royal York Hotel, Mr. In his new post Before joining NYC, Mr. Dickson Nash described a "decade of decision" he is responsible was General Manager of Tube Craft, and listed four main developments for management Inc., at Cleveland. Also, he formerly that promise to "make American rails planning and per• was Coordinator of Production Plan• a growth industry once again." sonnel adminis• ning and Sales Service for Jones & "We are confident that in the imme• tration, other than Laughlin Steel Company, at Detroit. R. B. Hasselman E. L. Claypole diate future we will achieve a modern• labor relations, in- ization of our work rules and prac• cluding manage• E. L. Claypole, former Division tices. We will be allowed to offer our ment development, Superintendent of Chicago, has been customers the benefits of volume con• training, employ• appointed Division Superintendent of tract rates. We will continue to make ment and recruit• the Detroit Division with headquar• technological and operating progress. F. L. Kattau ment, as well as ters at Detroit. And we will bring to successful com• organization planning and salary ad• H. M. Babcock, former Division pletion many of the mergers that are ministration. Superintendent of the Detroit-Canada necessary to our survival as private Division, has been named Division enterprise," he said. Mr. Kattau, who joined NYC's En• MEMBERS of the Toronto Railway Club held their 29th annual dinner recently at Superintendent of the Canada Divi• gineering Department in 1925, has Mr. Nash predicted that the rail• the Royal York Hotel in Toronto. Among those attending were (from left) Nich• served as Executive Assistant — J. D. Dickson sion at St. Thomas. road industry will get more freedom olas V. Back, Chief Engineer, Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railway; J. H. Smith, Office of the President, since Novem• in rate-making "in order to fully President, Canadian General Electric Company; John F. Nash, Senior Vice Presi• ber, 1958. NEW YORK DIST. WESTERN DIST. exploit the inherent advantages of dent of New York Central; and N. R. Crump, Chairman, Canadian Pacific. Mr. Donald A. Swanson is the new Trans• G. H. Jones, Jr. has been appointed Raymond C. Harrison, former Trans• volume rail transportation. The eco• Nash was key-note speaker for the event. portation Superintendent at NYC's Manager of Organization Planning. portation Superintendent at New nomics of modern transportation Grand Central Terminal and Hudson train is one of the most promising Mergers and consolidations—now Mr. Jones, who joined the NYC in York City, is now Superintendent of requires it. Only through volume Division with headquarters in New developments in modern railroading. being planned for more than 60 per 1945, will be responsible for admin• the Western Division with headquar• contract rates will we be able to pro• York City. "Already express-shuttle operations cent of the Class I rail mileage—will istration of our organization im• ters at Chicago. vide our customers with the most Mr. Swanson succeeds Raymond C. have closed the only coal pipeline in create a healthier financial situation provement program, including plan• Mr. Harrison efficient transportation." Harrison, who has been promoted to the United States," he said. by permitting the "elimination of un• ning and development of organization joined NYC as a Mr. Nash said the unit or integral Division Superintendent of the West• He listed improvements that will necessary and duplicate facilities and studies. Clerk at Dayton. ern Division with headquarters at be more fully utilized in the coming services," he said. D. J. Lowther has been appointed In 1954, he was decade, including piggyback and con- "By the 1970V he concluded, "our Chicago. Elizabeth Darney has the distinction Manager of Salary Administration. promoted to tainerization, multi-level automobile industry will no longer be looked upon Mr. Swanson joined NYC in 1949 of being the first woman Claim Agent Mr. Lowther entered service on the Trainmaster at cars, electronic classification yards, only as a stand-by for meeting bad as Car Inspector and Repairer at for NYC. The newly promoted Mrs. P&LE in 1940 and transferred to the Columbus and in improved communications, compu• weather and national defense emer• Toledo. After several promotions in Darney began her career with NYC NYC at New York in 1956. In his new 1960 was named ters, and electronic data processing. gencies. It will be an active element in the Mechanical Department, he was in 1937 in the Accounting Depart• position, he will be responsible for Assistant Trans• "However," he continued, "to a the continued growth of the American assigned to the Association of Amer• ment. administration of our salary program. portation Super- large degree these exciting develop• economy and an active partner with ican Railroads in 1960 where he intendent at Mrs. Darney—a native of New R. C. Harrison ments depend upon the success of the the Canadian rail industry in sustain• served on a special task force. Later Springfield, O. York—has been in the Claims Depart• ENGINEERING railroad merger movement in the ing the strength of the Western that year he was promoted to District Other positions include Terminal ment since 1953. Previously, she had Charles T. Popma has been named United States." World." Car Inspector at Syracuse. In Decem• Superintendent at St. Louis (1961) been in the Executive, Passenger, and NYC's Assistant Vice President-En• ber, 1962, he was named Master Me• and Transportation Superintendent Communications Departments. gineering. He succeeds B. S. Converse chanic at Chicago. at Indianapolis (1962). who has resigned. Mr. Popma — a NORTHERN DIST. St. Lawrence Seaway IHB Headlight native of Jackson, Richard B. Hasselman, General Man• Fred G. Frederick Finances Flounder, Mich.—joined the ager of IHB and CR&I since June, JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1964 Maintenance of 1963, succeeds Mr. Popma as General succeeds Mr. Has• selman as General Record Shows Way Department Manager of the Northern District. Vol. 25 No. 1 in his home town The new General Manager is head• Manager of IHB The St. Lawrence Seaway Develop• in 1937. quartered in Detroit. and CR&I, where ment Corp. says it will be $189 mil• Printed in U.S.A. In 1960, he be• Mr. Hasselman joined NYC in 1947 he has been Ex• lion in the red by the year 2009 unless came District En• as a Student Engineer in the Main• ecutive Assistant tolls are raised or traffic increases NORMAN M. STONE gineer at Syra• tenance of Way Department at New to the General substantially. Manager, Publications & Advertising cuse, N. Y., and York City. Manager. Mr. That's the date (45 years from C. T. Popma GEORGE BOHOT two years later In 1959, he was appointed Trans• Frederick, whose now) the corporation must under law Editor was named Division Superintendent portation Superintendent of the headquarters now F. G. Frederick complete payment on its $131 million of the Lake Division at Cleveland. Western District at Cleveland and in are at Gibson, Treasury Department debt, which al• THE HEADLIGHT is published by the New York Central System for its active and Since January, 1963, he has been 1960 became General Superintendent Ind., has served as Executive Assist• ready has been increased by deferred retired employes and their families. All General Manager of the Northern of Yards and Terminals. ant to the General Manager since interest payments. communications should be addressed to the District with headquarters at Detroit. A native of New Haven, Conn., Mr. 1959. He joined IHB's Engineering "A pretty bad financial picture," HEADLIGHT editorial office: Room 1446, 466 FIRST LADY Claim Agent for NYC Lexington Avenue, New York 17, N. Y. His new headquarters are in New Hasselman is a graduate of Yale Uni• Department in 1923 in Gibson and System is Mrs. Elizabeth Darney shown was the comment of Rep. Ben F. York City. versity and the Graduate School of was named Division Engineer there Jensen (R-Iowa) during a House Member: American Railway Magazine above with General Claims Attorney Editors Association; House Magazine Insti• Mr. Popma is a graduate of the Business Administration, New York in 1951. He was named Assistant to Maurice Ray. Mrs. Darney is headquar• Appropriations subcommittee hearing tute; and International Council of Indus• University of Michigan. University. the General Manager of IHB in 1958. tered in New York City. in Washington. trial Editors.

12 New York Central Headlight Jan.-Feb. 1964 13 Congressman Reid Offers Bill to Aid Railroads Congressman Ogden R. Reid (R.— N. Y.) in October introduced the "Railroad Redevelopment Act of 1963" to enable essential but fi• nancially hard- pressed American railroads to ob• tain loans under a comprehensive plan from the In- ternational Bank

for Reconstruc-

ReP. Reid tion and Develop• ment (The World Bank) or other financial institutions. 'The World Bank and its affiliate, the Inter• national Development Association (IDA), have loaned $1,171,300,000 in foreign countries to construct, im• prove and modernize their railroads— but no such loans have been made in the United States," Congressman Reid stated. Mr. Reid noted the following sig• nificant railroad loans to other coun• tries : Japan $ 80,000,000 Mexico 61,000,000 France 7,500,000 India 446,000,000 United Kingdom (for Nigeria, Rhodesia and Nyasaland) 85,000,000 "The World Bank has two unique qualifications," Mr. Reid stated. "First, major experience in analysis Rochester Democrat & Chronicle and development of conditions for a NYC FLAG AT ROCHESTER is lowered to half loan in the railroad field; and, second, mast as J. T. McGraw, Gen. Yardmaster (center), insulation from politics." and other Central personnel pay silent tribute to "The Bank makes thorough studies slain President. All NYC trains throughout nation stopped for one minute to mourn President. and develops a comprehensive plan as a pre-condition to any loan considera• tion," Rep. Reid said. He noted—that under the bill—"this plan could also be the basis for a loan by other finan• cial institutions which follow similar IBRD standards." Representative Reid pointed out that "while the Bank's title under• scores 'reconstruction' and 'develop• ment', in fact, this institution has helped modernize railroads in indus• trialized countries, notably Japan." "A concommitant of this Bill," Con• gressman Reid concluded, "is the de• velopment of an up-to-date national transportation policy of more freedom and less regulation." Congressman Reid said he was working on a Bill addressed to the overall problem but "the first priority must be to save the ALL SIGNS AND ADVERTISING DISPLAYS in Grand Central were dark• essential railroads we have now, and ened in tribute to President Kennedy. Thousands of NYC commuters watched to preserve and improve their passen• funeral procession on giant television screen placed over station's ticket win• ger, freight and commuter services." dows. Major events during crisis were televised.

14 New York Central Headlight NYC President Alfred E. Perlman (center) presents,retirement gift to"L. W. Horning when latter recently retired as our Vice president in Washington. Raymond R. Manion (right), former Assistant to: President, succeeds Mr. Horning as NYC's representative in nation's capital.

that post until he became Assistant L W. Horning Retires; to President. Mr. Manion came to the Central from the Great Northern Railway, Raymond R. Manion where he was Chief Engineer and where he began his railroad career at Named Successor tht age of 16. He earned his degree in civil engineering at the University of Lawrence W. Horning, Vice Presi• Illinois, graduating in 1934. From dent of the Central at Washington, then until 1938 he worked for the D. C, retired November 30, after 47 Pennsylvania Railroad, returning to years of railroad industry service. the Great Northern in 1938 as an Named to succeed him as NYC's rep• Assistant in the Operating Vice resentative in the nation's capital is President's office in St. Paul, Minn. Raymond R. Manion, who had been He was a Trainmaster from 1940 to Assistant to President. 1942, before entering the Military More than 200 of his friends hon• Railway Service in that year. He saw ored Mr. Horning at a dinner in service in Europe and Africa, leaving Washington. Joining New York Cen• the Army in 1946 with the rank of tral people, were leaders of both Captain. houses of Congress, other railroads Mr. Horning became Central's Vice and labor organizations. President in Washington in June, Commenting on Mr. Homing's re• 1957. He joined NYC in 1941 as tirement, Central's President, Alfred Assistant to Vice President-Person• E. Perlman said, "We are certainly nel, later becoming Manager of Per• going to miss the services of Bill sonnel. In June, 1943, he was elected Horning, who has been a Vice Presi• Vice President-Personnel and subse• dent of the Central for 20 years. He quently assumed additional responsi• has had a remarkable career and in bilities for public relations and safety. his retirement he will retain the high A native of Jackson County, Indi• esteem of his many friends and asso• ana, Mr. Horning began his trans• ciates throughout the industry." portation career with the American In his new position, Mr. Manion Express Co. in 1915 as a Freight will be Central's representative in the Handler. After the outbreak of World national capital, as Mr. Horning was. War I, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine He will be responsible for relations Corps and served in France and, with with government agencies and offi• the Army of Occupation, in Germany. cials, other railroads, railroad associa• A graduate of Benjamin Harrison tions and NYC customers. Law School of Indiana University, he Mr. Manion was Assistant to Presi• became Secretary of the Indiana Rail• dent of tht Central, headquartered at road Association in 1929, and in 1933 New York, from July, 1961 until his was appointed the Association's Coun• newest promotion. He joined NYC sel. In 1936 Mr. Horning was named in August, 1956 as Assistant Vice Regional Director of Research for the President-Engineering. In November, Association of American Railroads, 1957, he was appointed Assistant holding that position until he joined Vice President-Operation, holding New York Central.