December, 1949

DECEMBER, 1949 Future of Rails 3,700 Enrolled A Very Happy Threatened by In Supervisory Holiday Season Claims Case To All Members of the Course by Mail New York Central people Less than three months after have taken an active part in the New York Central Family its first announcement, the Cen• defense the nation's railroads are tral's correspondence course for presenting against huge govern• THE holiday season finds us once more with "peace supervisors, entitled "Be a Bet• ment "reparations" claims which on earth," and a bounteous measure of "good ter Boss," had attracted upwards of 3,700 enrollees, Personnel De• if granted would threaten the will to men." Let us each do all we can to make it future of the rail industry. partment records show. be true, and continue to be true. The railroads, which made Men and women from every agreements with the government The past year brought its sorrows and disappoint• supervisory category have on rates and hauled much gov• ments but it also brought many blessings for which flocked to sign up for the course, ernment war freight at lower- we can be reverently grateful. Most of us still enjoy which brings a series of ten les• sons into the supervisor's home than-commercial rates, deny good health. Our nation's standard of living con• Justice Department allegations by mail, to be studied and then that the government was over• tinues to improve. There has been no further serious applied in working out quizzes charged for rail service. encroachment on the vital freedoms that have made at the end of each lesson. The case is being heard by the our nation the best place to live in the entire world. Enthusiastic comments have ICC. If decided against the rail• In this time of joy fulness and reverence, I am been received from many of the roads, it would mean in many people taking the course. They happy to have the pleasure of thanking you once cases railroads not only hauled have found it "interesting," government freight free of more for your excellent cooperation during the past "very helpful," "easy to read," charge but actually paid, when year, and to extend my appreciation for your help in and "right down the alley for a their huge wartime tax pay• meeting the new and interesting challenges to come. railroad man," to quote a few of ments are considered, for the the reactions received by the privilege of hauling it. And again I extend to you and to all members of Personnel Department. Gustav Metzman, NYC Presi• your family my very best wishes for a very joyous Still Open to Enrollment dent, testified in the case, point• Christmas and a New Year filled with happiness and "I am looking forward to the ing out, in addition to the in• satisfaction. May all good things be yours through future assignments," wrote justice of the claims, the crip• the year and through the years to come. Thomas C. Davis, Assistant to pling effects they would have on Comptroller, New York, in mail• the rail industry. (See page 16.) G. METZMAN ing in his answers to the quiz A. H. Wright, NYC Vice Presi• President concluding the first installment. dent, retired, and J. P. Patterson, Upon receipt of each completed General Freight Traffic Man• quiz, the next installment is ager, also testified. mailed to the enrollee, together with corrections of any errors in Winners Next Month his quiz answers. More Called Back to Shops NYC people employed in su• In Big Safety Contest pervisory capacities can still en• About 550 employes—fur- pointed out to employes that the roll for the course simply by loughed during the summer coal and steel strikes had dealt The entries are all in. Pretty sending name, occupation, loca• because the Central's freight a severe blow to NYC freight soon the judges will be, too. tion, department, and home ad• business had slumped—were traffic, coming at a time when They have hundreds of sugges• dress to Personnel Department, called back to work at New York the volume of our freight busi• tions to go through before they Rom 519, 466 Lexington Avenue, Central freight car repair lo• ness had already declined to a can decide the winners in the New York 17, N. Y. cations last month. serious extent. HEADLIGHT safety cartoon contest, The course will be conducted The men were called back be• "All of us want to see plenty which closed Nov. 30 between the Personnel Depart• cause of an increased demand of work in our shops to keep all We hope to announce the win• ment and the individual direct. for gondola cars resulting from our men on the job," Mr. Metz• ners in next month's issue. Upon successful completion, resumption of steelmaking oper• man said, "but that depends on Meanwhile we wish the best of those taking the course will re• ations. maintaining a high level of traf• luck to all entrants. Not every• ceive pass-sized certificates testi• An earlier call-back, planned fic. Anything any of us can do one can win, but we hope all fying to their achievement. The for October 3, had been blocked to get more business for the who tried feel they have gained fact that they have taken the by the shutdown of coal mining. Central will be a further boost extra safety-consciousness by so course also will be entered in President Gustav Metzman for Central jobs." doing. It's a good thing to have. their service records. Train Time Guide View NYC Foreign Trade Role Adds More Info The New York Central's big role in world trade was pointed out to a large group of import• In Latest Issue ers, exporters, and foreign ship• pers recently. The Central's new Train Time Guide—the "rail schedule that The Central and the Port of anybody can read"—has been ex• New York Authority played host panded with the fall-winter issue to 375 delegates to the National to include schedules of Boston & Foreign Trade Convention on a Albany and Pittsburgh & Lake four-hour sightseeing tour of Erie passenger trains. The orig• New York harbor aboard the inal Time Guide, issued last NYC ferryboat Niagara. summer, did not include these The Central's marine opera• schedules. tions and facilities were de• The fall-winter issue—of the scribed to the guests over a same convenient size as its pred• public address system as the ecessor—contains 17 tables list• ferryboat poked about the ing through service between "business section" of the harbor. Representatives of the For• Touring New York harbor are (1 to r) J. R. Henning, Allis- nearly all points on the System, Chalmers Corp., Milwaukee; F. F. Haberer, John Deere Corp., eign Freight Traffic Depart• including complete schedules of Moline, Ill.; W. E. Hart, Allis-Chalmers Corp.; L. Relyea, Super• crack B. & A. trains such as the ment, headed by Foreign Freight intendent of the Central's New York Terminal District; and L. W. streamlined New England States Traffic Manager J. B. Jerome, Byrne, promotion chief for the Port of New York Authority. and the New England Wolverine. pointed out the advantages of When the guide was first "shipping Central." Mr. Jerome Port of New York and of the American industry and trade issued last summer, it was wide• told the visitors that the trip was magnitude of rail-sea freight associations, visitors from Great ly hailed as the timetable that designed to inform them of the operations. Britain, France, Canada, and "anybody can read." size and superior facilities of the In addition to officials from Pakistan enjoyed the trip. Here's What NYC Offers in Sleeping Cars Know somebody who is going on a trip? Have you talked to All this and economy too, for the roomette is priced just a him about the advantages of going NYC? few dollars above the lower berth. Or maybe the prospect is a she. Have you told her of the For two people, there is the double bedroom, containing Central's accommodations tailored with an eye to milady's two beds (lower and upper). Sketch showing it both by day traveling comfort? and night is at lower left in first column. Complete facilities Your sales talk are right in the room; and, for NYC service will ROOMETTE in many of the Central's bedrooms, toilet and wash pack more punch if By Day you know the score basin are enclosed in their on what the Central By Night own room-within-the-room. has to offer. When Compartments also con• you're talking to a tain two beds and all pri• passenger prospect vate facilities. They are —whether as a tick• larger than bedrooms, cost et clerk selling a a little bit more, and employ fare at the window, a different arrangement of a passenger representative swing• beds. By day a compartment ing an order for a big group, or seats four people comfort• just an on-the-ball Central em• ably. SUITE ploye trying to round up some In many of the Central's bedroom cars, the wall between a business—you'll want to be up-to- pair of adjoining rooms can be folded back to provide a spacious date on your product. suite for group or family travel. An arrangement of this type Take sleeping car space, for ex• is shown above in this column. ample. The Central's big fleet of overnight trains—in which Drawing rooms, containing a sofa and two lounge seats by roll hundreds of new postwar sleeping cars operated by the day and making up into three comfortable beds by night, are Pullman Co.—offer a wide variety of accommodations.

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