Can You Identify This Location? Mystery Picture No. 12 Maine Central

Railroad Magazine

Vol. XII—No. 4

Richard M. Aylward FROM THE EDITOR Editor-in-Chief This month the National Foundation for Infantile William A. Wheeler Paralysis is again conducting its March of Dimes Associate Editor Emeritus campaign in order to raise funds for a continuing fight against the dread affliction.

But, why is more money so necessary now since Our latest mystery photo, num• in on the Freight House Track; the Salk vaccine has been developed? The theme of ber 12 as shown above, we expect and retired agent Frank H. Gray the 1956 Drive answers that— "Polio Isn't Licked may cause some discussions out who was Agent at Wiscasset from Yet". Polio victims of yesterday, today and even along the railroad before a decision Nov. 5, 1908 to June 22, 1952. tomorrow must not be forgotten; vital research is reached as to the location. Note, Yarmouth Jet., which appeared must be continued; and the training of desperately as clues, the motor car siding, as Mystery Picture No. 10, con• needed medical and scientific people must go on color light signal, a mile post and tinues to bring in replies, including until polio is Really licked. the rock ballasted roadbed. those from: Ralph Sawtelle of Au• Wiscasset was the location of gusta who was News Agent on Throughout the nation in 1955 the disease Mystery Picture No. 11 in our De• trains 44 and 25 back in 1896 and served notice that polio is not licked yet; 30,000 cember issue and correct answers a freight brakeman in 1901 on Americans were stricken during the year. At the have come in from the following trains 28 and 41; retired conductor year's end there were 68,000 polio patients look• readers: Eugene A. Reynolds, Traf• ing to the March of Dimes for assistance during "Cy" Whittier of Readfield; Lloyd THE COVER fic Manager for the Hyde Wind• E. Neal of Somerville, Mass.; and 1 956. For them the vaccine came too late. lass Co. at Bath; Aaron Tucker, Jr., Engine 571 is one of Carl Stern, an Associate Professor But, it is not too late to help and the 1956 Baggage Master at Wiscasset who at Randolph-Macon Women's Col• the first to take sand at March of Dimes urges us to give now! identifies the men standing on the lege, Lynchburg, Ya., who was the new locomotive sand• station platform as Conductor quite sure of the location even ing station at Rigby En• Morris Johnson, Trainman Percy though it has been a long time since gine House. Road Hostler Bartley Wallace handles Bracket and Richard Reed, a local he has seen it. mail truck driver; M. W. Flynt, the sand hose. See story our Magazine Correspondent at But now, back to the business at beginning on page 14, Waterville Station who said, "I've hand — have you decided as yet this issue of the Maga• pulled many truck loads of mail up just \e the above pictured sec• zine. Published Monthly by that platform"; H. H. Howard of tion of track is located? We shall Portland who notes that the switch be very interested in hearing from THE MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY has been thrown for NR 2 to haul you! 222 St. John Street Portland, Maine

2 3 tain only automatic highway cross• within a few feet from the top of ing protection on branch lines out• the mast. This operation was re• side of signaled territory. peated at each station in succession So much for the organization of so that the other terminal knew of the Department, now let's put to• the departure of the train a few- Railroad gether the article you were minutes after it had left. If the train promised. Also, in order not to were delayed, a black ball was bore you, I will attempt to keep hoisted in place of the white ball. away from technical details and This signaling the movement of confine this article to history and trains was an early method of dis• development, particularly as it ap• patching but was limited to the dis• plies to the Maine Central and the patching or sending out of the trains, as no means were available By John F. Stanford Portland Terminal. Railroad signaling came into for quickly reaching the train with Signal Engineer being with the conversion of mo• instructions to direct its movement. tive power from horses to steam The Ball Signal, as a fixed signal, locomotives. Signaling is considered is in use today on the Maine Cen• John F. Stanford to have its origin in England, in tral and the Terminal, as well as 1825, and consisted of a man with other railroads, but only as a rail• a red flag, riding a white horse, road grade crossing signal in non- THE Signal Department, a di• draftsman, after which it is who preceded the train through signaled territory. The balls are vision of the Engineering Depart• thoroughly checked by an assistant the town to warn the villagers of painted red and are supplemented ment, has the responsibility of in• engineer, further revised and then approaching danger. This practice at night by lights. The Maine Cen• stalling and maintaining the signal, checked by another engineer. The was followed in New York City, tral has one of these signals at installation is then made in the field, communication and electrical fa• along the waterfront, as late as Whitefield, which governs the use and before being placed in service cilities along the line. Signaling, as 1925. of the diamond crossing with the the name of the Department im• is given a very thorough and ex• The first railway signal system in Boston and Maine. The Terminal plies, constitutes its major function. haustive series of tests, to be sure America, using fixed wayside sig• has one just east of Portland Union that the system will function re• The total personnel of the De• nals was inaugurated in 1832, Station, which governs the use of liably, and without interruption. partment comprises approximately twelve years before the invention the crossing of the Union Branch These tests and inspections are con• with the passenger mains and Ieacs 95 employes on both the Maine of the telegraph, on The New Cas• Central and Portland Terminal; of ducted under the supervision of the to Yard No. 7. office engineering force. tle and Frenchtown Railroad be• this number about 18 are employed tween New Castle, Delaware, and The Semaphore Signal was intro• exclusively in the electrical and The construction on our rail• Frenchtown, A4aryland, a distance duced in England in 1841, and so communication fields. Signal En• road is performed by two boarding of seventeen miles. It was designed completely met the requirements of gineering is a highly technical car crews with a normal comple• to send information from terminal railway signaling that in a short branch of the electrical engineering ment of six to eight men each. The to terminal as to the movement of time it came into universal use in field. Educational institutions do maintenance and minor construc• the train and consisted of fixed this country as well. However, not provide all the necessary train• tion is under supervision of two wayside signals located about three power operation of the semaphore ing and therefore it requires several signal supervisors. Our signaled ter• miles apart. When the train de• signal was not developed until years of experience to supplement ritory is divided into 16 sections, parted from the terminal the flag• nearly fifty years later and thus this this education before a person is averaging about 20 miles, each of man hoisted a white ball to the top signal was principally used at inter• sufficiently qualified to assume any which is generally maintained by a of a mast about 30 feet high. The locking. of the major responsibilities. signal maintainer and a helper. The flagman at the next station, observ• The "Smashboard" Signal came Terminal is maintained by one A signal system is first engin• ing the position of the signal at the into use as a drawbridge signal in foreman and six men. In addition eered on the drafting board by a terminal through a telescope, hoist• 1868. The stop indication was dis• circuit designer, then traced by a there are two sections which main• ed the white ball at his station to played by lowering a large red

5 board to a position over the track quired considerable maintenance ing an indication which it was dif• so that the top of the locomotive and thus prodded the profession to ficult to distinguish from that dis• ABOUT THE AUTHOR would strike and break the smash- develop a simpler method of con• played when signal was lighted. Our author this month, John F. board in case the engineer overran veying information to the engineer Various means were employed to Stanford, began his career in the the signal. This type of signal is of track conditions ahead. The railroad signal field in 1926 with the reduce the intensity or eliminate in service on the Carlton Draw• Color Light Signals resulted. The New York Central System. At that the indication resulting from this bridge at Bath; however, it is sup• first of these were introduced on time he was in signal construction external light, but to date an en• work from which he was shifted in plementary to the regular inter• electric railways, in 1908, where tirely satisfactory method has not 1928 to the Signal Engineer's office locking signals. sufficient power was available to in Albany, N. Y. been found. None of these signals provide an adequate light intensity. From 1929 to 1949 Stanford made The need for an automatic block remain in service on our properties. signal system prompted the intro• The Color Light Signal displays a his headquarters in Boston with the colored light for day as well as Since it was not practicable to Boston & Albany Railroad, his work duction of various enclosed disc• covering the duties of a Maintenance type signals which were electrically night indications. This type of sig• control the indication resulting Inspector and the designing of signal operated. There was also intro• nal is still used almost exclusively from external light, and it was pos• systems. Back in the New York Cen• duced one that was operated by a for subway signaling. This signal sible that such indication might be tral offices in Albany in 1949, he be• came Assistant Circuit Engineer, the weight driven clockwork mechan• did not come into extensive use on less restrictive than the track con• ditions ahead justified, the Search• post he held until "he joined the Maine ism. Coincident with this develop• steam railroads until an improved Central in October 1953 as Signal ment the closed track circuit was optical system was developed so light type of color light signal Engineer in the newly organized En• introduced in 1872, and marked the that adequate light intensicy could came into general use in the early gineering Department. beginning of our present day auto• be produced from low wattage sig• 1920s. The optical system of this Stanford is a member of the Com• munications and Signal Sections of the matic block signaling. The enclosed nal lamps. signal is essentially the same as other color light signals, except for Association of American Railroads and disc-type of signal displayed only With the Semaphore Signal in a member of the New England Rail• two indications, thus the develop• the introduction of the color. A road Club. mind there was developed the Po• low wattage electric lamp is located ment of a suitable electrically-op• sition Light Signal in 1915. This at the light center of a parabolic re• disc in the optical system, and this erated semaphore signal was pro• signal simulated the positions of the gressed that would display three flector which collects and redirects disc is controlled to correspond semaphore arm by rows of lighted indications. Such a signal was in• all the light generated toward the with the track indications ahead. electric lights. In 1921 a combina• troduced in 1893, which was an outer clear glass lens at the front of Thus, instead of controlling the tion of the color light and the po• early model of the lower quadrant the signal. This clear glass lens de• amount of light reflected from an sition light signals was developed semaphore signals as installed on flects the light rays and directs external source, the color of same and called the Color-Position Light the Maine Central. This installation them into a narrow beam which is is controlled. Signal. This signal simulated the aimed along the track toward an started in 1908 and continued for In addition to being more reliable position of the semaphore arm with approaching train and is visible at the next few years until all lines and simpler, the color light signals rows of colored lights, the color of least 3000 feet in bright sunlight. having traffic to justify were com• cost so much less than the sema• the lights corresponding to the The color is introduced in the pleted. phore signals that they have almost color of the night indication of the searchlight signal by a color disc completely replaced them on new The electric upper quadrant semaphore signal. mounted in a moveable vane and construction. Additionally, in many semaphore signal was introduced These three earlier types of color located at the focal point of the re• cases it is more economical to re• in 1908. However the installation light signals were not used exten• flector. The vane is moved by a place worn semaphore signals with of lower quadrant semaphore sig• sively on the Maine Central, or on relay-type mechanism so that the new color light signals than to re• nals was completed before relia• many other railroads, due to dif• color disc corresponding to the pair the old signals. Replacement bility of this signal had been gen• ficulty resulted from phantom in• track condition ahead will intercept of the old semaphore signals on the erally proven and thus this signal dications. These phantom indica• all the light. Thus any indication main line with searchlight signals was not used on the Maine Central. tions resulted from sunlight passing displayed by the signal must come was started in the early Forties, and The electrically operated sema• through the outer colored lens to from the one optical system in the with the installation last year be• phore signal of either type with its the reflector in back of the signal, signal. Any external light being re• tween Tomah and Vanceboro, is motor, gear train, operating arms and being reflected out again flected back through the signal completed except in the territory and electric clutch mechanism re• through the colored lens, display- must pass through the one color around Waterville. Semaphore sig-

6 7 nals are still in service on Rockland against the changing of the route The first such machine was a pneu• brought the cost of signaling down and Calais Branches. ahead of the train. matic plant installed in 1876, em• so that it could produce many Interlocking is defined by the The first interlocking on our ploying compressed air to control economies in railroad operation as Signal Section of the Association of property was of the Saxby & as well as operate both the switches well as to provide reliable signals American Railroads as "An ar• Farmer type and was installed at and the signals. This system in• for safe operation of trains. This rangement of signals and signal ap• Waterville in 1911. These were volved high installation costs and has, needless to say, presented a pliances so interconnected that modified starting in 1917 to meet so the search continued for a less new challenge to the signaling pro• their movements must succeed each the requirements of heavier trains costly system. Hydraulic and hy• fession and brought with it the at• other in proper sequence and for and higher speeds. Modifications dro-pneumatic systems were intro• tendant responsibilities. which interlocking rules are in ef• consisted of adding an electrical duced but they developed serious This system made possible the fect. It may be operated manually control section to the machine for defects and thus were abandoned; control of remote interlocking lay• or automatically." Interlockings are the control of signals; thus the ma• however, eighteen such plants were outs, resulting in the consolidation used in terminals, at junction points, chines became what is known as installed on six railroads between of the control of two or more lay• at drawbridges and at railroad Electro-Mechanical. At the same 1884 and 1891. In 1891 the electro- outs under one operator. This de• grade crossings. time the mechanical signals were pneumatic system was developed creased operating expenses as well Interlocking is of English origin replaced by electric power oper• which basic system is still used. An• as improved operating efficiency and dates back to 1867, when Sax- ated semaphore signals, and im• other group was working on the inherent with such control. The by disclosed patents on what be• provements were made in the ad• fully electric system. Their first natural development was to control came the Saxby & Farmer inter• vance locking of the switches in machine was built in 1889, and the long sections of railroad from one locking machine. This machine was the route of the train. Four of these basic system is much the same to• point by signal indications without introduced in this country in 1870, plants remain in service and are day. The need for these machines the use of train orders. This system but extensive installations were not located at Rigby, Tower 2; Brigh• was not present on our properties is known as Centralized Traffic made until 1877-78. Switches were ton Avenue, Tower 5; Royal Junc• and none were installed. Control, which is usually used in connected to the levers of the inter• tion and Waterville, Tower A. The Both the mechanical and the the abbreviated form CTC, or, if locking machine by pipes and the remaining have either been re• power interlocking machines de• one is artistically minded, cTc. signals by wires. It is noteworthy placed with modern plants, have pend upon mechanical locking to The first system of remote con• that the later models of this ma• been made remotely controlled, insure proper correlation between trol, applicable to CTC, was de• chine are not materially changed have been removed through aban• the operation of the levers so that veloped and placed in .service in in principal from the original de• donment of line or have been dis• only one train is given authority to 1926. This system required one sign except in the development of continued due to decrease in traf• occupy a given route at one time. wire per controlled unit to operate the mechanical locking. fic handled at that location. Mechanical locking is expensive to functions and to indicate the field construct and, in addition, makes conditions to the operator. Since As the mechanical interlocking On many roads the mechanical alterations and additions to an ex• approximately one wire is required came into general use, various im• type of interlocking did not ade• isting plant expensive and difficult. per unit from the control point to provements were made to provide quately meet the requirements at all locations; layouts extended over The life of these plants when the controlled unit, the distance the security demanded by the in• factor enters strongly into the cost distances too long to be controlled properly maintained is very long; crease in speed and traffic. Switch of installation and maintenance. by one machine or too many men numerous plants have been in ser• and lock mechanisms were replaced This made about twenty-five miles were required to operate the levers. vice over fifty years. by separate levers, one to operate the economical limit to be con• This lack stimulated the develop• The "All-Relay" type of inter• the switch and the other to lock it trolled. This system of control was ment of the power operated inter• locking was developed around the in position. Track circuits were in• installed at power switch on the lockings which permitted operat• middle twenties to overcome this troduced and signals were con• Back Road controlled from Royal ing switches and signals over inflexibility. It also decreased the trolled through the track circuits. Junction in 1945, and at Waterville greater distances and decreased the cost of the interlocking. This sys• Detector bars at the switches were controlling old Tower "B" in 1951. time required to position the tem applies equally well to elec• replaced by electric locks on the The Royal Junction layout did not switches and signals for the move• trically or pneumatically operated interlocking machine levers to ex• employ CTC operation of trains. ment of trains, thus improving the switches and signals. The develop• tend the protection of the trains operating efficiency of the system. ment of this system definitely In order to control 300 and 400

8 9 which, in event of failure of the mile long sections of railroad, vari• from the adjacent track by insert• energy used, namely, Direct Cur• commercial power supply, will op• ous systems of coded type of con• ing insulating material between the rent, Alternating Current or Coded. erate a vibrator type of inverter. trol were developed. These systems splice bars and the rails at a rail Direct current track circuits This will supply an uninterrupted operate on either two or three joint to electrically separate one were the first developed as primary alternating current to the track. wires, which will control any prac• section of track from another. At battery was the only form of en• When the power is restored, the ticable number of units. The two- one end of this section of track ergy available. Direct current en• load will be automatically trans• wire systems have the added ad• electric energy, such as a battery, ergy from batteries is still the most ferred back to the commercial vantage that telephone circuits may is connected to each rail so that commonly used on electric rail• power which will also automatical• be superimposed upon the control the rails provide an electrical con• roads; however, the development ly recharge the batteries to be wires providing communication as nection to a relay at the other end. of batteries has been extensive. The ready for the next power interrup• well as signal controls on the same A relay is an electro-magnetically original gravity type of primary tion. pair of wires. The undesirable operated contactor which, through battery was replaced completely by The Coded track circuit is the limitation on the earlier coded sys• its contacts, opens or closes other the copper-oxide types which are, newest development in this field tems was the delay in getting in• electrical control circuits. When in an improved form, the most formation relative to conditions in and has great possibilities. It uses energy is allowed to flow unre• used type of primary battery to• the field to the operator. This time direct current energy which is stricted, the relay is energized thus day. There is a new type using could, and did on particularly long coded (interrupted) at pre-deter- closing its front contacts. However, carbon and zinc elements which installations, run into minutes and mined rate or rates. It has a higher when an engine or car enters the we have tried out at a few loca• any dispatcher will tell you this is sensitivity to train shunt, can be section of track controlling the re• tions. Storage batteries are used ex• too long. There are now available operated over a longer section of lay, the wheels and axles provide a tensively; their justification is systems which will reduce this time track, and, by use of three different low resistance path for the elec• limited to heavy traffic territories to a matter of seconds. These sys• code rates, can transmit signal con• trical energy, diverting it away or installations requiring high cur• tems are also applicable to remote trols without the use of line wires. from the relay, causing it to be• rents. The batteries in common use control and are economically justi• The first systems developed re• come de-energized, opening its are lead-acid or nickel-iron types. fied over the unit wire type for quired a high level of energy and, front contacts and closing its back The selection depends upon the distance varying from one-half to due to continuous operation of contacts. Any signal permitting a requirements of the battery. The two or three miles, depending upon equipment, required frequent re• train to proceed requires that front nickel-cadmium battery has be• the number of units. A high speed come available and we have made placement of operating parts. type of this system, called "Syn- contacts of all vital control relays a few installations at highway cross• Within the past year a new system chrostep" was used in Tower "X" be closed, i.e., electrical energy ings to test and observe its per• has been developed which requires Portland, both for remote control flowing. This is referred to as the formance. less energy and decreases the op• and for CTC. "Fail Safe Principal" since loss of erating rates, and thus will require energy by any means will cause the Alternating current is used prin• less frequent replacement of mov• The closed track circuit, as signals to display their proper re• cipally by electric railroads to ing parts. The earlier type was used stated previously, marked the be• strictive indications. separate signal energy from the in connection with the Fore River ginning of automatic block signal• The track circuit principal was propulsion energy. The cost of this Bridge project to decrease the num• ing; it is also the backbone or developed in 1872, and is still used system is more than that of the ber of wires across the bridge and foundation of all present day signal in all track circuits today; how• direct current and is therefore used on the Mountain Sub-Division systems. This has motivated the ever, there have been numerous on other railroads only to over• where the pole line is not adjacent enormous energy expended in im• improvements in energy used, in come special conditions. A.C. en• to the tracks. The later type is proving its operation. The track electrical connection of rails and in ergy used in conjunction with a being considered in connection circuit is not evident to the casual design of the relay. The develop• rectifier to utilize direct current re• with a CTC installation that is be• observer but is so important to the ments in any of the above fields lays, was installed at a highway ing studied by us at present. signal system that I am obliged to could each consume a good-sized crossing signal on the Maine Cen• become technical long enough to book. The Maine Central has and tral last year. This energy was To stimulate your thoughts, and describe it and tell how it operates. still is attempting to keep pace with used to provide improved train possibly bring to light a new The track circuit consists of a sec• these developments. Track circuits shunting sensitivity. Reserve energy Thomas Edison, the introduction tion of track electrically insulated are generally named for the type of is provided by storage battery of light weight, self-propelled

10 11 equipment having off tread brakes, manual gates or watchmen were such as Budd Cars, have taxed the provided. The first automatic sig• improvement possibilities of the nals were audible warning bells; Service Pins Distributed present track circuits to the utmost. with the common use of closed Present experiments are with the vehicles this was supplemented by use of check-in and check-out de• oscillating banners displaying a vis• vices to supplement the present ual warning to stop. As the speed of conventional track circuit. How• the vehicles was increased, oscillat• ever, the end result of these studies ing lights were added to these ban• can very possibly result in an en• ners. Highway vehicle speeds con• tirely new system which could re• tinued to increase and a longer place the present track circuit. range signal was needed in many Highway crossing protection has instances, thus the modern Flash• become increasingly active due to ing Light Signals were developed. the increase in speed and volume The highway traveling public, be• of highway traffic. No one will ing in a terrific rush, began to ig• question the desirability of pro• nore these warning signals and in• tecting grade crossings but the rail• sisted upon driving on the track road should not stand the entire ex• ahead of a second train with the pense. The general policy has been warning signal still operating. To to have a government agency order preclude this possibility, where the railroad to make the installa• heavy highway traffic existed, auto• tion, which agency had no power matic crossing gates came into use. to make provision for reimbursing Highway crossing protection, with the railroad for any portion of its unpredictable quantity, the pub• either the installation or the main• lic, requires the utmost in engineer• .Miss Doris Thomas and Engineman Daniel E Cony receive the first of the new service pins from President E. S. Miller. tenance. The State of Maine and ing and ingenuity in its design and the Federal Government have is thus a most interesting phase of New gold service pins, designat• Employees from all sections of recognized this and are according• signaling. ing 25 and 50 year Maine Central the road who have the qualifying ly providing partial payment of As you must already be aware, employees are now appearing in years of service are receiving their cost of installation. To date Town the developments in the signal field ever greater numbers from one end and City Governments have not pins by mail with a congratulatory are so rapid that ofttimes before an of our Railroad to the other as a recognized this and the railroad is message from President Miller. Re• installation is engineered and in• result of the general distribution of still, in those instances, required to quests should be sent to G. H. Hill, stalled there is a new and improved the emblems now under way. provide protection entirely at its Publicity and Advertising Manager, system already on the market. Just expense. The minimum cost of such Late in November President E. Maine Central Railroad, 222 St. to stimulate your thoughts to the an installation, i.e. on non-signaled Spencer .Miller presented the first John Street, Portland, stating name, single track in open country with• future, the New Haven is reported of the pins to employees represent• service dates, present work and ad• out switches in the vicinity, is to be experimenting with full auto• ing the two groups. Accepting the dress to which the pin should be about $5,000, and about $400 an• matic control of a train from a first pin for those employees having sent. fixed point, i.e. Robot Control. 25 or more years service was Miss nually to maintain. More elaborate — o — installations will run as high as John Lyden's warning, in the Doris Thomas, a stenographer in $25,000, with comparable increase September issue, to never start dis• the Freight Claim Department. At in maintenance costs. patching unless you want to spend the same time Daniel E. Cony, vet• Appointments the rest of your life railroading, eran engineer now handling the In the days of horse-drawn vehi• applies equally to signaling, be• "Pine Tree" between Portland and Announced by Horace N. Fos• cles the standard crossbuck pro• cause the same fascination applies, Bangor, received a 50 year pin to ter, Comptroller and Treasurer, and vided adequate warning except in and, as John said, "vou are represent his group, those having effective on December 29, 1955 very busy areas in cities where hooked." over 50 years of service. were the following appointments

12 13 I for the Maine Central Railroad of the Magazine. and the Portland Terminal Co.: Also in the Accounting Depart• John F. Gerity, appointed Audi• ment and announced by George H. tor Disbursements; Ellis, Auditor Revenue, were the Sidney C. Foster, appointed As• following appointments which sistant to Auditor Disbursements in were made effective on November charge of Timekeeping and Pay• 1, 1955: rolls; Benjamin B. Braasch, appointed Robert G. Clarke, appointed As• Credit Examiner; sistant to Auditor Disbursements in Donald H. Svenson. appointed charge of Vouchers and Accounts Traveling Accountant. Payable; John Michaels, appointed Assis• tant to Auditor Disbursements in In the Freight Department, C. H. charge of Roadway, Mechanical, Loveitt, formerly Chief Rate Clerk Car Repair and Stores Account. for the Maine Central, was ap• The above appointments consti• pointed Chief Division Bureau ef• tute one of the final steps in the fective December 1, 1955, with establishment of Maine Central's headquarters at Portland, accord• Accounting Department, a more ing to an announcement by R. C. detailed and descriptive account of Merrow, Asst. Freight Traffic which will appear in a future issue Manager.

— o — Engine 571 on the sanding station track. Wet sand enters the system through the right hand tank, is dried in the shed below and then stored in the larger tank Scheme "Q" until needed in the small service tank over the track at left. A I. D. Billington, General Foreman, Engine House, may be seen just to the left of the drying shed! to actually wet) is unloaded from Not to be outdone by our The fine sand obtained from the only but it has been set up to cover Armed Forces with their variously gondola cars by crane and dumped screening runs by gravity into an the future possibility of a two track named "Operations", our Engineer• into a 100 ton capacity storage elevating tank; when this tank is sanding station. ing Department has come up with tank, the cover or lid of which is full the access valve on it is closed, Dry sand is very important to first lifted off by the crane. a series of proposals and projects compressed air is turned on and the the top performance of a locomo• one of which is now in effect and As it is needed the wet sand is sand blown up into the dry sand tive. Without it the tractive effort was completed under the name of allowed to flow by gravity from storage tank which has a capacity of the engine may be greatly de• Scheme "Q". the storage tank into the drying of 200 tons and is also located di• creased due to wheel slippage on Scheme "Q" involves a com• apparatus in a shed directly below. rectly over the drying shed. the rails caused, for example, by pletely new installation at Rigby This apparatus consists of a revolv• Locomotives being sanded are snow or ice accumulations, a light Engine House — a sand drying, ing drum operated by electric serviced from a 10 ton capacity rain or frost; with sand traction storage and diesel locomotive sand• power which is set on a slight end service tank built over the nearby improves and, of course, so does ing facility — the first installation to end pitch and heated by a fuel sanding station track. To fill this the locomotive's ability to haul of its type on the Maine Central. oil fired burner. As the sand dries it service tank sand is allowed to flow heavy tonnage. is kept moving through the drum Automatic, except for manually from the dry storage tank by grav• An average of one car a month, by the slant or pitch on the drum operated valves, the equipment re• ity into a second elevating tank in 50 tons of sand, is used at Rigby until, as the drying is finished, it quires one man to operate it. the shed after which it is lifted by to supply engines serviced there. emerges from the drum and passes To get an idea of the process, compressed air to the service tank. Probably two-thirds of this amount through a screen for size. Drying let's follow it step by step: As a last step, gravity flow feeds is actually used during the winter is at the rate of two to three tons Wet sand (which means sand the sand into the locomotives. months however. Sand amounts per hour. that may range from slightly damp The facility now serves one track used by any particular locomotive 1 4 15 unit depend on several factors such service between Portland and Ban• stations, there are two further tele• ger, John P. Scully, was recently as the weather, length of the run gor by way of Brunswick and phone installations, one at South appointed to a 3 year term as a and area through which the run is Augusta. It has replaced the fa• Gardiner and the other at Vassal- member of the Advisory Board, made. miliar Morse Code telegraph sys• boro Section House. These are call- Department of Development and — o — tem and now handles all dispatch• in stations only, that is, the Dis• Commerce by Governor Edmund ing of orders issued to cover train patcher can not call them but when S. Muskie. New Dispatching movements over our Railroad's necessary local personnel may un• Indicative of the scope of the Lower Road main line. lock the phone boxes and contact department's work are the three System Master control for the new cir• the Dispatcher. divisions of which it is composed: cuit is located at the Train Dis• Under the new system the num• Research and Planning, Develop• For "Lower Road" patcher's desk in Portland. Here is ber of Dispatchers on duty at any ment and Recreational Promotion. installed a dial, very similar to the one time remains the same; the ter• The .Maine Central Railroad in And, indicative of Scully's qualifi• ritories they handle have been conjunction with the New England dial on our telephones, a loud cations for membership on the changed however. One man now Telephone and Telegraph Com• speaker and a speaking unit that Board, is his experience in the Engi• controls train movements by means pany has inaugurated a new type hangs from around the Dispatcher's neering, Traffic and Operating de• of the new telephone line over the of train dispatching system unlike neck thus leaving both hands free partments of the railroad in addi• entire distance from Portland to any other system in its field. It for other work. A dial and regular tion to the duties of his present Bangor, plus the Foxcroft and Har• makes use of existing telephone handset telephone instrument are office. mony Branches. Formerly the main trunk cables and local wires, in• also located at the Chief Dis• line territory was controlled in two cludes new and specialized equip• patcher's desk and in the Superin• sections. Portland to Waterville and Railway Clerks to Install ment and is truly a "first" for both tendent's office. By ERNESTINE V. MILLER Waterville to Bangor. companies involved! Cut into the line are 22 wayside Remember the date! Get out your stations including passenger sta• — o — best 'bib and tucker!' The fifth an• Approximately a year's time was tions, signal towers and yard of• nual Joint Installation-Banquet-Dance required for Telephone Company fices. Each of these locations is J. P. Scully Named to of the Railway Clerks will be held engineers to design and develop the Saturday, January 14, 1956, at Valle's equipped with a telephone instru• equipment and another period of Steak House, Dunstan (Scarborough). ment, a bell and a foot pedal type Maine Board about two months was needed for A steak dinner will be served at 6 of push-to-talk switch. Thus, by P. M. sharp, weather permitting ar• testing and adjusting the lines be• Maine Central's Industrial, Real means of a system of individual rival of out-of-town guests by that fore the railroad officially accepted Estate and Tax Department Mana- code numbers, the Dispatcher may time. There will be a cocktail hour the system for use. from 4 to 5:45 P. M. Dancing, featur• dial any of the wayside stations. The Telephone Company pro• ing Bob Percival's Orchestra, will fol• By use of group code numbers vides, services and maintains the low the installation of officers. several of the stations may be called circuit and equipment necessary for Transportation will be furnished for at one time. All stations on the cir• those desiring it. A chartered bus will the dispatching system. Used is a cuit may be rung at any one time leave the Eastland Hotel at 4 P. M., high grade four-wire voice fre• from one of the three dialing sta• Union Station at 4:15 — a later bus quency line which provides high will leave the Eastland at 5, and tions by use of a special code num• quality transmission at all times. Union Station at 5:15. The return ber. This latter is used, for example, trips from Valle's will be at 9:30 and Uninterrupted service during any when all stations are contacted for midnight. For regular bus service, see commercial power failure is insured the 7:15 a. m. and the 12:15 p. m. Boston & Maine bus time tables. by standby electric power supplies Members of Lodge No. 374 in broadcasts, at which time the loca• and top priority is given to main• good standing as of January 1, 1956, tion and expected movements of all tenance or repair work by tele• will be furnished free tickets upon trains on the line are given as in• request to S. ). Conley Jr., J. S. Mur• phone crews. Rental and service formation, this being especially use• ray, or Ernestine Miller. Guests may charges are made at a specified be invited at $3.00 per ticket. ALL ful to section men and others work• monthly rate. personnel in the building, relatives ing on the railroad right of way. J. P. Scully, at left, receiving oath and friends will be welcome. At 12:01 a. m. on November 21, The deadline for banquet reserva• In addition to the above wayside of office from General Counsel A. M. 1955, the new circuit was placed in Knowles as Dedimus Justice. tions is positively January 10

16 17 By KATHRYN McMULKIN Well, we've never seen a more contented human than Joe Pelletier is on his present job. And he agrees — that's a perfect description! As we begin this NEW YEAR I find myself wishing that I could tell "Pete" Connary took his final week's vacation the last week of December. each of "US GIRLS" personally how much I wish for you all the good General Oltices Frank Scott also enjoyed the week before things of Life in 1956. Cluistmas at home with his family. John Dresser, formerly of the Boston and Just think — we have three hundred and sixty-five days ahead of us, Maine Payroll Department, has transferred to By ERNESTINE V. MILLER and the Maine Central, being employed in the As• God willing, and it is up to us to make of them what we will. Did you MARY E. MORSE sistant Treasurer's Office. A big WELCOME to Kenneth Brann — new Margaret Gagnon is an attractive addition to ever stop to think that each morning as we get up we have the privilege of male Stenographer-Clerk — in the Engineering the stenographic force in the accounting de• determining what our day shall be like? We have the choice of looking Dept. "Ken" spent 2 years in the U. S. Navy partment. as a Yeoman before coming with the Railroad Sympathy is extended to General Bookkeeper on the bright side of life, or the dark; whether we are to be happy or un• Sorry girls; he's already married — to the Erroll Libby on the death of his grandmother former Rita Stratton, of Cumberland. happy; kind or unkind; courteous or discourteous; tolerant or intolerant; on December 19. "Jim" Born was born under a lucky planet. Anyone who missed the Maine Central "Get- charitable or greedy; have positive or negative thoughts. Our free will One of his friends presented him with tickets to Acquainted" Christmas party at Old Orchard the Army vs. Navy Game at Philadelphia to be Beach Country Club on Saturday, December 17, allows us the choice — and although sometimes the forces within us pull played Nov. 26th: — on the 25th! Well, you certainly missed a wonderful time. A good-sized one way and then the other — good vs. bad — we are nevertheless Masters can just bet he didn't have much time to crowd of employees, officials and guests joined onder whether he would go or not! Reports he together for a real old-fashioned get-together in of our Fates, and we, and we alone, have the power to make each of ad a fine time. the Yuletide spirit. Over 100 people were served Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stewart and daughter a lobster newburgh dinner or chicken a la king these three hundred and sixty-five days what we would have them be. Laura Ann spent the Christmas Holidays with — there was dancing to a late hour — and 25c both parents in Upper New York State. gifts added to the general merriment. When the It really is important then, isn't it, to weigh very carefully each morn• Mr. and Mrs. Frank Watts took two trips to party broke up everyone felt it had been a ing what we desire our day to be, so that, when we take stock at night, Hoidton, Maine this winter, during Thanks• huge success and we all hope it may be done giving and Christmas, to visit their daughter's again sometime. Many thanks are due Mrs. although we may have failed in some way, we know our objectives were family, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Haskell and Sara Peggy Lopez for having a bright idea and getting and David. various people to help her with some of the de• sound and good and from that we can gather strength for the new day tails. Othe: s who worked with her. were Patricia Connary, Ann McNally, Mary Tabbut. Theresa to come. Slattery, Ruth Watson and Ernestine Miller. Among late vacationists were Frank Woodbury And now that we have decided to take each day and live it in the best and Ruth Kelley of the Accounting Department. way possible, important things first, and all good, why not go all the way and be good to ourselves vanity-wise. "Us Girls" know there is nothing more exhilarating than to get showered, all curled up, scented and dressed up for a big party — we love it — but we know too we can never be beautiful by fussing over ourselves now and then. It takes steady practice and faithful use of cleansing and night creams, hair care, nail care, ex• ercise, diet — in fact, everything that makes for good grooming, to keep us looking well — but it's worth all the time and bother, isn't it, because Portland Ticket Cieik Ernest A. Hill, of Cape Eliza• we know if we take the time to be as lovely as possible every day we beth, has been awarded a diploma in Traffic can't help but be beautiful for those very special occasions. and Transportation Training by La Salle Ex• tension University of Chicago. Hill has been em• So in this Year of 1956, instead of hoarding that special perfume and ployed in the ticket office at Union Station since March, 1943. He completed this course of train• those bath luxuries because they are packaged so prettily you just hate to ing after two years study in his spare time. open them and they do look so nice on your dresser, go all out and use Arnold L. Shuman, 29, a telegrapher in the Portland Train Dispatcher's office, died un• them each day, not just those special occasions that are spaced so far expectedly at his home in Portland on Dec. 5th Prouder than a mother or father? Why a He had joined the Railroad in March. 1946, as apart, and you know something, you will feel so luxurious you will be grandmother, of course! This proud grandmother a Leverman with the Portland Terminal Co. and delighted for doing so. is Mrs. Mabel Lancaster of Madison, Maine, became a telegrapher a few months later, cover• holding her grandchild Walter, 3 months, son of ing various points before entering the Portland Mr. and Mrs. Jean Emmons Lancaster, Jr. 'By now and a HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU! office. i 18 suddenly. Dispatcher Arthur Mills who is Vice artillery advisor to the National Guard in that Rigby Engine Mouse President will take over for the ensuing year. region. He expects to be there about three years. The usual Christmas basket fund has been While training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, And Car Dept. concluded and baskets will be distributed to 7 he met Miss Carolyn Price whom he married in of our sick workers covering all crafts. Greeting 1944. They have two sons, Douglas. Jr. 7 and By ALBERT B. WETMORE cards have also been sent out to those on pen• Donald 3. sions. Ted plans to commute some between Kingston The distribution of the 25 year service buttons James William Mudd, a former machinist has and So. Portland while his son is there. among the men who have applied for them has been reported sick. He was preparing to take a By JOHN J. KEATING Mrs. Sarah Hodgkins, housekeeper for Condi. been completed. The general concensus is very trip to the West Coast when stricken. Would Conductors Y. C. Neilson, George Green, Gil• Harold Card, was a patient at the Maine Gen• favorable as to their appearance and they are like the boys to send cards to him. bert Fournier, Fred Eaton, Wayland Bennett eral Hospital for surgery. appreciated by all. Your reporter received a letter from Retired and Engineman Harry Pettingill have all been Robert Monahan, son of Conductor J. E. and Carman, and Assistant Foreman. Henry Grim• Machinist Leslie Drew from Germany where he off duty on account of illness. At this writing Mrs. Monahan, employed by the Government, mer is reported seriously ill at this writing. resides with his daughter. He will return home all were back on duty except Harry Pettingill, has been assigned to Harvard College for study Former Crane Operator Scott Copp, now re• in February. who is still confined at home. in Business Administration. tired, was a visitor at the simp during the The new 10,000 gallon "lube oil" tank is now Engineman A. J. Robinson has received a If you are in the market for old fashioned month. He retired on October 1st. Willard Der- in operation. citation for 40 years of service in railroading kitchen stoves, get in touch with Trainman rah has bid in the job and now covers same. Local No. 525 held it's meeting at which the from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Martin Sullivan who has some good ones at Machinist Helper John Nally has recently officers for the new year were elected: Laurence He has been awarded the "Badge of Merit" by ten dollars each. urchased a new home on Winter Street in Lanciault, President, Joseph Ashley. Vice Presi• the Nation's oldest railroad union. He is secre• Conductor Roy Garland's son has enlisted in Portland. dent, Joseph DeRoche, Recording Secretary. tary to the senior Brotherhood's Division No. 508 the United States Navy and is training at Among our men out sick, the report is fairly Treasurer, Lucien Carignan, Financial Secretary. at Bangor. Bainbridge, Maryland. encouraging. Machinist Helpers Vernon Saunders Albert Wctmore. Sympathy is extended to Agent George Mc- Engineman "Capt." Campbell was a patient and Ralph Sawyer are up and around. Boiler• Mrs. Alfred Burke, at the age of 8!*. and Luer at Freeport on the death of his wife, who at the Maine General Hospital for surgery as maker Clair Libby who had returned to work mother of Stores Department Keeper Didocc died Dec. 7. was Trainman Jerry Carr. after his operation, is now out sick with a case Burke died during the month. She is a Canadian Conductor and Mrs. George McLearn made of the shingles. Machinist Fred Emery had a by birth, and would have been married 66 years a visit to their son, Raymond, and his family lame shouldei foi A few da-.-. had she lived until February. A floral tribute who reside in Bangor. Raymond is connected Former Machinist Frank Brume and brother of was sent. with the Burroughs Adding Machine Company. Machinist Helper William Brume died during I.. Lanciault, President, and member of the Engineman and Mrs. Prichard were guests of the month. A floral tribute was sent. executive board of District No. 42, I. A. of M., their son and his family over the Holidays. They Albeit Noble, Steam Fitters Helper in the B. was called to Boston on December 16 on ac• reside in Manchester, Conn. and B. Crew, shot a 9 point buck near Sebago count of the death of the Recording Secretary The Maine Association of Railroad Veterans Lake. Also Gordon Littlefield and Mrs. Little- and Treasurer Percy Moore. A new official of held their annual Christmas Party Dec. 18, at field both shot a deer. that capacity will be elected. the Valley Street Restaurant. Gifts were ex• The annual meeting of the Railroad Workers' The Safety Board now reads 148 days without changed. Solos were by John Gurney, Philip Waterville Station Relief Association was held in the General Fore• a lost time accident. Earles and Eugene Winslow, accompanied by By M. W. FLYNT man's office on December 12 to elect officers Probably the happiest man in the engine house Mrs. John J. Keating. and to transact further business concerning the is Stores Department Laborer John Mac Vane. Correction from the December issue: Mrs. We were all very happy when the announce• organization. This is all because of the fact that his pet has John Casey, wife of Retired Station Baggage ment of promotion of Basil Higgins to Acting Chief Clerk Leo Belfoiintaiuc has purchased a been returned to the fold. John operates the lift Master, was a patient at the Mercy Hospital, General Freight Agent was made. Congratula• new car of popular make. truck, or "Jeep" as we call it. This piece of should have read Mrs. John Cady. tions, Basil. \Ve know you'll do a good job. Machinist "Mike" Emery has taken on a new equipment has been away to the factory for re• Condi. Ted Knowlton expects his son. Major Glad to be able to report that Mr. Rudmau pastime which should be interesting as well as pairs for about a month, and has now been Douglas Knowlton to be home for a visit around has returned to his home from the hospital. profitable if he's lucky. He has purchased a race returned to service and this is just cause for the 15th of January. Major Knowlton entered Hearsay has it that Ray Coulombrc was stop• horse of good lineage from an Ohio stable. The John's e\e ranee. the service in 1942. He saw action in World ped in Massachusetts by a uniformed gentleman horse's name is "Scottie Zephr". You may see Clerk John Welch and a friend have opened Wai II and in the Korean War. For the past for a small matter of speeding and received a the name on our local race cards. up the Shell service station at Thornton Heights t h rec yea * s he has bee n in Ge r ma ny with the warning ticket. John McGarry former engine dispatcher and and John is kept quite busy evenings, holidays 594th Field Artillery. His next assignment will Bill Monroe visited the Bangor Engineering President of the Clerks' union local died quite and Sundays. be at Kingston, New York where he will be Department Office recently. A big buck walked through Ralph Snow's driveway the other day. Wise old buck — he must have known the hunting season was over! Chief Clerk Raymond Reny enjoyed a week's vacation in December. Mis. Jeanette Perro gave a Christmas party for the office girls at her home. Gifts were ex• changed and everyone enjoyed themselves. Con• nie Bouchard was assisting hostess. One of our Stenogs had trouble starting her car in a neighboring town. Guess what the trouble was — no gas! Condr. and Mrs. C. M. Ryan were called to Bradford, Pa. on account of death of his sister. Thus far December has favored us with plenty of cold days but little snow has fallen. Baggage Room force report heavy movement of Christmas mail during last two weeks. Stenog Elaine Kervin has been presented with a modernistic alarm clock but she still wishes for one that will indicate the year. Her trouble is in telling 1955 from 1956. Our sympathy. Elaine, but one just cannot hold the years back. Ticket Clerk Ruth Brochu out for a few days The above group are Inspector Roger Cabana on account of illness in her family. Eleanor with Mrs. Cabana, son Ralph and daughter Beeh substituted with Marilyn Bird taking Mrs. Donna. Roi>er is employed at Union Station, Beeh's position in Freight Office. Portland. A Happy New Year to all.

20 21 Blacksmith Johnny Bucknam is a patient at D. Walker of Fryeburg has undergone a serious would like to keep and that is to say, "H Brunswick a local hospital with a heart condition. operation lately but is doing quite well. AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO A Apprentice Howard Hunt, who has been soak• The plow-men and flanger-men have been The Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of By H. O. PREBLE ing up wisdom under the tutelage of the placed for the Season. Covering the wing plow, motive Enginemen and Firemen held then Swing Baggagemaster George Risteen has been Passenger Room 'Book of Knowledge' has ab• West, we have Robert 'Casey' Jones and Pres• nual Christmas party at the home of Mrs. ». on vacation. He was relieved by former MCT sorbed a skin full and is now under the eye of ton Burke; on the wing plow East are Percy liam Dowling, Tuesday evening, Dec. 6th. TJ bus driver Wilbur Bryant of Augusta. Car Builder Beezer Buzzell. Chandler and Ethan Hersey; while the flangers refreshment table was adorned by a very prei The platform between the Bath track and the Helper Bill Witham has returned from a 29 are covered by Cleaver Neally, Fred Cote, and Christmas Tree cake, made by Mrs. Grace F. Goose Pen has been dug up and track 35 beyond day stay in the hospital and has found his Chandler and Hersey going Eastward. nald. Mrs. Dowling was assisted in serving the Goose Pen has been removed. wings in Estabrook's Pigeon Cote. Pauline L. Gardner, daughter of section fore• Mrs. Pasquel Caruso, Mrs. B. H. Duddy, a Swing telegraph operator Leo Blanchette told Machinist Bryand Kent has been in a recent man R. R. Gardner of Barttett, became the Mrs. Mary Dauphinee. me he was out on an old country road looking auto accident, which smashed his beach wagon bride of Benson Howard at the bride's home Gifts were distributed from a Christmas ti for a Christmas tree recently. Said he almost and broke his ankle. here in town on Saturday, December 17th. The and games were enjoyed during the evenin tipped his car over and had to call a tow truck Sympathy is extended to Transfer Table new Mrs. Howard is a R. N. and has been Those attending besides the hostess were: M to haul him out. The towing charge was much Operator Archie Smith, whose wife died recently. working at the Memorial Hospital lately. Mr. Caruso, Mrs. Duddy, Mrs. Fernald, Mrs "

more than the cost of a tree and the last I Carman Eddie Maillet has returned to the Howard is a native son and at present is work• mond Perry, Mrs. Gordon Adams, Mre heard there still was no tree. Trimmers crew after a three months illness. ing for his father in his business. Reynolds, Mrs. Robert Perry, Mrs. I saw Johnny Callan of the freight house staff Chief Scrapper Clarence Garfield and the Car Inspector Leon Sanborn expects to return Nadeau, Mrs. Leon Robinson and Mrs. actually running today. It's the first time he Mrs. are spending three months in Florida. to work shortly. Leon finally has taken the big phi nee. has moved faster than a snails pace since he Ernest Crocker Sr. of Fairfield died recently step and gotten rid of the ulcers which had Machinist Richard Hudson returned to work started working here. The reason for his speed at his home. He had been employed here many plagued him so badly for several years. Dec. 13th after being laid up with a broken leg was a zero reading on the thermometer. years, finally retiring from the Acetylene plant. Conductor David Dudley is taking his two since the first of November, which he acquired Another employee has an even better record Among survivors are a son and former shop weeks vacation at present. on a hunting trip at East Machias. than that. Second trick switchman Ralph Moffet employee, Ernest Crocker Jr. And a new arrival to Operator Danny Oulton Congratulations to Crew-dispatcher and Mrs. has never been caught moving at more than a Watchman Roland Higgins has returned to and Mrs. Oulton; a baby girl named Edith May. Milton Hartery on the birth of a daughter, snails pace. I can't think of the proper words to work after a bothersome time with paralysis in Our congratulations to all. Mary Theresa, on Novefnber 19th at the Eastern describe Ralph's rate of movement other than his arm. Maine General Hospital, weighing seven pounds that if you look real close you can discern a Watchman Howard Hunt, Sr. lost his home and two ounces. change in his position. in China recently as result of fire which also Mary Theresa is also the first grand-child on destroyed furnishings and clothes. both sides of the family. The proud grand• Carman Dud Peavey is a patient at a local parents are General Foreman and Mrs. R. O Waterville Shops hospital with a heart attack. McGarry and Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Hartery of Electrician Johnnie Beeh recently accepted a Brewer. By 'STEVE' job as arbitrator for the UN,—United Neighbors, Electrician John J. Sullivan recently sold his that is. As we hear it, a neighbors wife, whose home in Hampden and bought one at 193 Wilson Just philosophizing. Ain't it peculiar that some, husband had been 'looking on wine when it was in aging, grow old gracefully, while others Street in Brewer. They are in hopes to be settled red', asked John to come in and mediate a Bangor Car Department in their new home before Christmas. creak, clank and grind to a slow halt. Of course family fracas. Johnny tried to oblige but the the above observation has no bearing on what Machinist and Mrs. Herbert W. Clark have husband saw red and impressed Johnnie that his By C. A. JEFFERDS announced the engagement of their daughter. follows .... One morning recently, one of efforts as a mediator were un-acceptable. There have been two deaths, among fur- our most distinguished appearing Supervisors Jean Anne, to William Frank Roberts, son of Johnnie allows that future arbitration will be loughed employees of the Car Department, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Roberts of Brewer Lake. came inching thru the Paint Shop and becoming with a rubber hose. namely: weary (apparently), sat down on the edge of a Miss Clark and Mr. Roberts are both graduates sill to rest and refresh himself with a little in• Carman Leon Day is hospitalized with pneu• Coach Cleaner Dudley J. Harvey, 74, who of Bangor High School. Miss Clark is employed tellectual conversation with Supervisor Laurence monia. died at his home in Lambert Lake, Dec. 1, 1955. at the W. T. Grant Co. and Mr. Roberts is Campbell. Upon his arising our curiosity was Carman Stanley Dorval is hospitalized with a Burial services were held at Danforth, Rev. employed with Lewis Ellis, Contractor. A Janu• aroused as to his rubber legged appearance. To heart condition. George Erwin officiating. ary wedding is planned. our amazement and his chagrin he fell into a Fred Stubbert, son of Painter Charlie, a stu• Bowling A. Tinker, Coach Cleaner, 75, who Mrs. Flora Duddy was elected President of strategically located garbage can. We, being all dent at U. of M. is a member of the Freshman died Dec. 8, 1955 at Bangor. Funeral services the Penobscot Valley Lodge Auxiliary of the solicitude and sympathy, hurried to rescue our basketball team. There were more than 70 were held Dec. 10- Brotherhood of Locomotive Enginemen and Fire• friend but he got up at the count of nine and candidates for the team. Those who have enjoyed their vacation since men at the annual meeting held Tuesday, Dec. hastened to assure us that he didn't need any the last publication: 13th at the G. A. R. Memorial Hall. Other of our @&tb$—*@&Ib assistance. We are happy Carman D. A. Perry, Northern Maine Jet. officers elected at this meeting were Mrs. to write that all damage was confined to our Electrician J. W. Tower, Carmen M. R. Jeanette Perry, Vice Pres.; Mrs. Grace Fernald, friends dignity. Grass, O. W. Spauldlng and Carman Helper R. Secretary; and Mrs. Helen Merrithew, Treasurer. E. Quimby. Also, your correspondent C. A. Mrs. Dorothy Nadeau and Mrs. Francis Adams The sudden death of Carman Charles Sweet Jefferds. were elected to membership at this meeting. came as a profound shock to all here at the Coach Cleaner C. P. Soucie is to be con• Shops. Charlie had worked here for many years gratulated on receiving $20.00 for mink pelt, he and had always been active in union affairs and having trapped the same. welfare activities. He is, and will be, missed Our good friend B. W. Caldwell, Carman RELIEF by all who have been associated with him. at Bangor, is right on the verge of purchasing Carman Eloi Michaud and Machinist Eddie a new car. Looking around for a good church McAleer threw their respective hats in the BartJett, N. H. Coach Cleanei: Henry L. Badger has changed Waterville political ring at the recent elections. to attend, the stranger in town finally By O. R. BURDWOOD his residence from 25 Spring St. to 85 Palm Eddie was a winner. Eloi was an also ran. happened into a small one where the St., Bangor. Carman Ralph Anderson has recently returned Mr. C. H. Higgins, Division Engineer for the congregation members were reading to from a trip to Florida. B&M with headquarters at Concord, N. H., was the minister from the ritual. Blacksmith Laurie Oleson got the index finger a visitor here recently. He was roadmaster here Mechanical Department on his right hand jammed in a machine and is years ago and still likes to stop in and see the They were saying: "We have left in the hospital. At this time it is not known if boys. He never was a very good bowler, however By F. E. WARE undone those things which we ought the finger will have to be amputated. —retired mail clerk George Hamlin used to beat The holiday season is over and gone once to have done, and we have done those Sympathy is extended to Dick and Dana him regularly and then brag about it. again and there is no doubt but some of us Sturtcvant of the Passenger room, whose mother Pleased to say that Trackman Henry Nealley were left with a big head and all of us with things which we ought not to have died recently. has returned to work; he bunted into the North a fiat pocket-book and a lone list of New Year done." Millman Gerard Gosselin has returned to work Conway section. Henry was badly injured last Resolutions which were made under duress of The stranger dropped into a seat after a visit in California with his son Walter. July in a car accident. New Year's Eve., intended to be broken within Carman Wang Emery has been a recent Everett Tebbetts, clerk in Mr. Dodge's office, the next few days. As I emerge from the with a sigh of relief. "Thank goodness. patient at the Sisters after suffering a mild heart is taking a week's vacation. "SMOG; FOG and the DOG-HOUSE" after I've found my crowd at last!" attack. We learn that Retired Section Foreman George New Year's Eve, there is one resolution that I

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