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March, 1952 3 Logs for Lumber and a Number of Other Uses Go Into the Log Pond at Weyer­ Haeuser's Manufac­ Turing Center at Longview, Wash VOL. XXXIX No. 12 A Two-Way Street A. G. Dupuis Mallager HAVE been very pleased to find that the appeal Marc Green Marie Hotton I Editor A.ssistalli. 1.0 Editor" fOt understanding which appeared on this page in January was so well received. The letters coming to PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT UNION STI'.TION-CHICAGO me from Milwaukee Road people suggest that there is no limit to the benefits to be realized from greater The Milwaukee Road Magazine is pub­ lished for active and retired employes of cooperation and understanding. They also remind me The Milwaukee Road, to whom it is dis­ tributed free. It is avail:tble to others of a very elementary fact-that real understanding at 10e per single eopy or $1.00 per year. between us is a two-way streer. The keys to such an understanding of each other are to be found in the sharing of information and IN THIS ISSUE the free exchange of ideas, because it is JUSt as im­ Page portant for me ro know what you have on your mind A Two-Way Street as it is for you ro know what I have on mine. By President J. P. Kiley------- 2 I am trying, through these messages and through the Perfect Shipping Preview ------- 3 pages of the Magazine, to keep you informed of my New Values in the Log By Irv Luiten---------------- 4 thoughts, and I would like to encourage every em­ Service Club Aids Miles City ploye on the railroad who has a question regarding Polio Drive .----------------- 6 any aspect of our railroad or its operation to inquire Our Safety Score--------------- 6 about it. Officers and supervisors to whom such ques­ The Nice Customer------------- 7 tions are directed witt, I feel sure, not only provide Hook & Ladder Chief------------ 7 the information but respect the individual for being How Are We Doing?------------ B sufficiently interested to ask. Certainly my immediate The Cover --------------------- B staff witt do everything possible to be helpful. Stationmaster J. J. Crowley Retires B The employe who offers a helpful suggestion for They Can Bake a Cherry Pie------ 9 improvement in methods, service or efficiency helps The Appeal of a Railroad Job his company and adds to his own stature in our or­ By Robert Ledin------------ 10 ganization. Milwaukee Road Women's Club Membership--------··--- 10 Real understanding demands that we UJork tOgether How to Make Friends by Telephone 11 and thin!?. together. It is the two-way street that lead~ Appointments ----------------- 12 to success. Retirement Dinner Honors W. E. Ring .----------------- 13 Retirements ------.----------- 13 Home Department------------- 15 About People of the Railroad ---- 16 ~ ( br'ouoJ1t em togeth~v. right ·t~J!~t, t Irne i PERFECT SHIPPING PREVIEW One of the cartoons from the booklet, "Who Says We Can't Do Good Switching?" published by the Association of Ameri· can Railroads in connection with the 1952 Perfect Shipping campaign. REIGHT damage is a thief that robs year.round loss prevention program and the impact is 16 times that of coupling F us all of usa:bIe goods, but for rail­ welcome the opportunity to participate at 4 miles an hour, and 64 times that of roads and railroad people it is far more in the Perfect Shipping campaign, more 1 mile an hour. serious. Freight damage drains off rail­ especially as it gives us an opportunity to It is also important that particular road revenues, undermines railroad jobs, work more closely with the shipping attention be paid to the inspection and lnd works at cross purposes to the rail­ public ... classification of empty cars. Experience roads efforts to please their customers. "What can we, as railroad people, do? shows that much damage ha.s occurred That is why no one can afford freight There is a job for many of us: the car and many claim dollars have been :OS5 and damage, and that is why The department, station and yard forces, wasted because a car was furnished for _ filwaukee Road joins every year with who select the car for loading; switch. loading that had a leaky roof, poor side ,hi pers and other railroads in a month. man and yard enginemen, who can walls, uneven floor racks, or decking 'ong concentrated effort in the direction create or avoid damage by the way they impregnated with some previous com­ )' ?e-rfut shipping, This year, as every couple cars; freight house employes, modity which contaminated foodstuffs, := , April will be Perfect Shipping train dispatchers and maintenance of It is particularly important that cars to _ ODth, way forces. All of these men and others be loaded with flour and other sack ":hi pers themselves, organized and have a responsibility to perform their commodities, empty tin cans, grain, :-:-' rough the 13 regional Ship· work in such a way as to reduce the perishables and livestock be in perfect • " ..\ i. ry Boards and the national chance of damage to freight entrusted to condition when set for loading. .' -~-'- 'on of those boards, will be the care of The Milwaukee Road." The importance of train inspections :-U:'':: ~ home ro railroad customers the This year's campaign is laying par. cannot be over.emphasized. Here is a __ - ::.lKe of safe packaging, correct ticular stress on the speed at which cars place where every employe on the rail· :al~ :0£;1 le'(- addressing, and safe load. are coupled, as high impact speed is one road can contribute his bit by watching •• 10. _rid cjng shipments. of the principal hazards when it comes or closely the running gear of cars in pass.. .-\s ior me indi"idual railroad em· to causing damage in switching. On the ing trains. If such inspections disclose ploye. sA.'e h::l' ling is the watchword. Milwaukee it accounts for almost 60 any irregularities which might cause ac· He is an indispensable part of the Per· per cent of the loss and damage claim cidents, word should be passed to the iee.: Shipping team. a "ital link in the payments. train crew immediately so that they can istribution chain that extends from In switching cars, the force with manufacturer to customer. which cars couple together mounts by stop, inspect the train and take what­ Commenting on the coming cam· leaps and bounds as striking speed in­ ever action is necessary to avoid trouble. ?,aign, W. 1. Ennis, assistant to vice creases. So does the damage to what­ Perfect Shipping is railroading at its fCesident, in charge of claim prevention, ever is in the cars. When cars come to· best. Let's all do our part in making it .'aid. "We on the Milwaukee carry on a gether at 8 miles an hour, for instance, a reality. March, 1952 3 Logs for lumber and a number of other uses go into the log pond at Weyer­ haeuser's manufac­ turing center at Longview, Wash. new values In• the Loe by Irv Luiten A LOG, like a Milwaukee Road ta.nk car, Today, in the modern sawmill, left­ manufacturing centers in the Douglas fir is round. over wood from lumber manufacture be­ region of Washington and Oregon and If you load boxes into a round tank comes raw material for other forest prod. the ponderosa pine region of Oregon. car, you have shipping space left over. ucts plants. The trash burner is obsolete. In Weyerhaeuser's operations, utiliza­ When you cut "square" lumber from a lumbermen use all of the log and are tion of the forest crop has reached its round log, you have wood left over. manufacturing from it a wide variety of. highest stage of development at the This doesn't prove a thing about rail­ products other than lumber. company's largest manufacturing center roading, except this: No good railroad This effort to convert the whole log at longview, Wash., which is served by man would load boxes into a tank car into useful products is especially notice­ The Milwaukee Road and other lines. and have valuable shipping space left able at Weyerhaeuser Timber Company's Here, grouped on a 670-acre site, is a over. But it does prove something about lumber manufacture. A lumberman hasn't any choice; he has to cut rectangular boards from round logs. So he's bound to have wood left over. Few people outside the lumber indus­ try realize that less than one-half of each log that goes to the mill actually makes boards, two-by-fours and timbers. The Bales of Silvawool, a wood by-prod­ other half comes off the saws and planers uct, is loaded in to • ..,• .lIi.' in the form of slabs, edgings, trimmings, a box car at Wey· planer shavings and sawdust. erhaeuser's Long­ Finding an economic use for these view plant feftovers was long a sore problem in the forest products industry. But in recent years the engineers, chemists and physi­ cists working in lumber and pulp mills ,; have developed countless new products ~, from wood. In doing so, they've found ; economic uses for i vast quantity of forest material that was once burned in sawmill trash burners. I " The Milwaukee Road Magazine Wl<1e '-?rJe:y 0: tor- -r products plants. It may be applied quickly over the floors mill. Some are routed to the wood fiber The,' inclu ~e three siwmills, a planing and inner walls of boxcars to make them plant. Here libers in the wood are sepa­ n:i!l', .Jy',\ood?l or, a sulphite pulp tight for shipment of such freight as rated by a mechanical-and-steam process mi L ? ,~l~!'>_:t ? 'Ip mill, a bark prod­ grain.
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