BIW Brings New Industry to Maine
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RUM*0*" ,ocv »°sL,«o««"- NEW PRODUCTS of the Bath Iron Works Corporation are the machines above shown in the Rigby yard after arrival on JR-2 BIW Brings New Industry To Maine By GEOBGE P. MCCALLCM, Editor The Bath Iron Works Corporation, Our railroad loaded the first Bath- heritage-rich builder of ships and de• built Pennsylvania late in 1947, and stroyers that are as much a part of since then several hundred crushers naval tradition as the Navy itself, has have been shipped. It's meant more brought an important new industry to stable employment for Bath people Maine. and a new source of revenue for us. Faced at the war's end with a A steady flow of freight, both outgo• sharply curtailed shipbuilding pro• ing crushers and incoming castings, gram, BIW turned to a new line of bearings, and steel stock, is being heavy equipment — manufacture of moved over our lines. crushing machines. By far the leader in a highly com• The Pennsylvania Crusher Company — "crusher of distinction" — in na• petitive field, the "Pennsylvania" line tional industrial fields was purchased includes eight standard types of in its entirety by BIW. The complete crushers. As indicated in the ex• line of crushing equipment ranges all amples to follow however, almost the way from baby laboratory crush• every installation is custom-tailored ers weighing about 500 pounds, to to meet the wide variety of industrial giant, primary crushing machines needs it serves. capable of chewing up 1,000 tons of Materials handled by the Pennsyl- rock an hour fed to it by steam vanias include bituminous coal, chem• shovel. icals, plastics, cement rocks, limestone, Important to the Maine Central, to gypsum, ores and gravels, to name a the state, and to the city of Bath, is few. Coal crushing equipment—Ham- the fact that whereas formerly con• mermills, granulators, and Bradford tracts for manufacture of the Crush• breakers—lead in sales. ers was job-let throughout the Coun• try, now the entire operation is con• An illustration of the wide range of MEMBERS OF the Maine Central family at Eastport, important fish packing point on our lines are (1) Clerk Burt ducted at the BIW yard and in its industrial needs served, finds one of Culligan who started out at Calais and has four years' service (2) Victor R. Brown, clerk-operator, with 31 years' the smallest Crushers in the labora- service including many years as agent at Perry (3) Clerk Mary Holmes who came to work for us last year (4) Bill Harding Plant at West Bath. Childs, freight checker, left, with more than 20 years' service, and Harold Duplisea, right, freight house fore• man, with 29 years' service 3 2 » er pioneered the engineering and sell• ing field for its product. A reputa• ONE OF THE LARG• tion earned through an outstanding Three Promotions Announced ER machines built by record of rugged performance coupled the Crusher Division is this Bradford with new designs and progressive Hammermill partially improvements soon made it a leader assembled and about in the field. Pennsylvania was the to be lifted into place first to switch from cast iron to steel- in the breaker house at the rear of the built crushers. They originated the photograph "reversible"—two crushers in one— that with twin sets of working parts, ran in either direction and crushed twice as long, before replacement parts were necessary. Now wholly owned by the Bath Iron Works, the Pennsylvania Crusher Company maintains its original name and has its home office in Philadelphia. With the prestige and facilities of the Bath yards behind them, Pennsyl• vania hopes to lower production costs and expand its coverage of the crush• tories of the Dupont Company where ing field. It already has gained ex• it's used to reduce dye and paint pig• clusive eastern rights to a jaw-type ments. Another small unit reduces crusher originated in California to talc from one-half inch minus feed to meet an increasing demand in the an infinitesimally fine minus 20 mesh field. product. For BIW this vigorous, new sub• On the other hand, a new Pennsyl• sidiary provides a stable peacetime J. P. Scully B. A. Jackson vania Bradford Breaker installed for production schedule, augmenting the the Public Service Corporation of regular shipbuilding program. For Appointment of John P. Scully, the Rotary Club, and honorary mem• New Jersey—the largest ever built— our railroad it's a new source of in• Portland, as Industrial, Real Estate ber of the Le Circle Commercial. Re• crushes and cleans coal at the rate of come which we welcome the privilege and Tax Agent for the Maine Central called to the engineering department 600 tons per hour! to serve. Railroad, effective Dec. 1, has been in 1942, Scully was promoted to di• Outstanding about the Pennsyl• announced by E. Spencer Miller, first vision engineer of the Maine Central vania, company representatives point Railroad Supervisors vice president. Scully has been di• and Portland Terminal Company. out, is their patented crushing action vision engineer the past seven years. Jackson, a native of Portland, en• that reduces wear to a minimum. An To Hold Ladies Night Simultaneously, two other promo• tered service as a rodman in 1936, example cited is one large crusher tions saw Raymond A. Jackson, as• was promoted to instrumentman, and The annual Ladies' Night of the that has been running 21 years with sistant track supervisor, Lewiston, from 1938 to 1940 served as assist• Railroad Supervisors Club of Maine a parts replacement cost of only promoted to the division engineer's ant track supervisor at Waterville. $.0005 per ton. will be held January 12, in the post, and Allen Hazen of Buxton He returned to Portland in 1941 and Installations of the new BIW sub• Lancey House, Pittsfield, it was an• moved up as assistant track super• was detached for service with the sidiary dot all parts of the country, nounced this month by club officials. visor. Maine Defense Commission on air• in fact, there are only four states in All female employes of the Maine Scully entered railroad service as a port construction projects. which a Pennsylvania Crusher is not Central, Bangor & Aroostook, Ca• rodman in the engineering depart• Jackson entered military service in operating. nadian Pacific and Boston and Maine ment in 1913, was made an instru- 1942 as a first lieutenant. He served The major industry served is Power railroads are cordially invited to at• mentman and then promoted to as• with distinction with the 78th In• where the giants are used to crush tend. An attempt will be made to sistant roadmaster, Portland Di• fantry Division in the European and clean coal at central stations and send out individual notices, but club vision, the next year. In 1919 he Theater, participating in the Battle industrial .plants. The other big four officials want all who wish to, to at• became roadmaster of the Mountain of the Bulge, Ardennes, and Rhine- are the cement, lime and gypsum in• tend. Division; in 1922, roadmaster of the land offensives. As a heavy weapons dustry ; coal mines and cleaning Charles H. Leard, in charge of the Rumford Division; and in 1924, road• company commander and executive plants, by-product coke plants; and a program, indicated an excellent din• master at Lewiston. officer of the Second Battalion, 311th wide range of miscellaneous indus• ner and entertainment would be fol• Scully left the engineering depart• Infantry, he was given a battlefield tries including chemical plants, me• lowed by dancing. ment to become general agent at Lew• promotion to major. He was awarded tallic mines, quarries, smelters, and iston in 1935. While there he served two Bronze Stars, three battle stars process plants. Safety Is Everyone's Job two years as president of the Cham• and earned the Presidential Unit Ci• Organized in 1905, the Penn Crush• ber of Commerce, was a director of tation. Discharged in November, 1945, he was made assistant track Cars which are not placed prompt• supervisor at Lewiston and served as ly— acting track supervisor on the Moun• Cars not switched out promptly tain Division the past Summer. after release— Hazen entered railroad service July Cars which do not move in first 28, 1941 as a student supervisor at proper train— Vanceboro. He returned to Portland Cars delayed on account of being as an instrument man in 1942 and in weighed— 1944 was made an inspector on con• Cars held awaiting proper billing— tract work. Cars set out for repairs— all increase our per diem expense. NOW COMPLETED but shown under construction here is the new Augusta toll bridge Keep Cars Moving Employes Attend Per Diem Rate Up Diesel Clinic The Bridge That Was Built By Rail The attention of every employe having anything to do with the han• dling of freight cars is urgently Formal opening of the new $3,000,- Two such girders occupied five flat- called to the recent increase in per 000 highway toll bridge at Augusta cars each and were shipped as one diem charges in a special bulletin is• may be looked upon with pride by unit. Part of these shipments were sued by Assistant General Manager Maine Central employes, for it was unloaded at Waterville and carried S. E. Miller. literally "built" by railroad. back to Augusta overland due to their The new ICC-approved rate in• More than 100 carloads of bridge huge bulk. creases the charges for use of for• steel, weighing 3,300 tons went into Another highpoint of the bridge eign-owned cars from $1.50 to $1.75 the 2,100-foot long, cantilever type construction from a railroad view• a day.