BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY Ross

Haycock

The average freight shipment han• Railroader dled by the railroads in 1950 was moved 415 miles, compared with 351 miles in 1940. A milestone rarely reached in a lifetime will be celebrated this The modern car washing machine, month by a man with the twinkle equipped with whirling brushes, cleans of wisdom in his blue eyes, the GUNS AND BUTTER. Government the exterior of a 3-unit diesel-electric light-heartedness of youth in his losses on the disposition of 14 surplus locomotive in less than 3 minutes. walk, and a zest for living of ten. food commodities—including butter— * * * Roscoe H. "Ross" Haycock, 83, are calculated by one expert to have of Calais,—senior Gold Pass hold• Modern ballast cleaners are capable totaled $91.6 millions through last er, senior Eastern Division con• of removing, cleaning and replacing ductor, grand old man of the November. He estimates this to be ballast to a depth of 18 inches. approximately the equivalent of the * * * Maine Central Railroad—will com• ARRIVING in Bangor on Train 116 is a familiar plete 65 years of active railroading routine to Conductor Ross Haycock who will have done cost of 85,000 recoilless rifles—each "Buffalo Bill" received his pictur• it for most of his 65 years' service this month June 21. priced at $1,033 as of late in 1950. esque nickname through his contract Ross's storybook saga of loyal and ord. Ross is one of the few, if not * * * to supply buffalo meat to the construc• faithful railroad service reads like a the only man left in active service TANKS AND TURKEYS. For the tion forces of the Union Pacific Rail• history of railroading and establishes that fired a woodburner. And he re• same first 5 months of fiscal 1951, road. what we believe to be a national rec- members all six of them on the old losses on government dispositions of * * * surplus foods — including turkeys — St. Croix and Penobscot Railroad, Harold E. Stassen, former Governor BEFITTING the first issue of the Magazine after 17 from the "G. M. Porter" to the plus carrying charges, amounted to years was this cover photo of Ross Haycock in 1944 of Minnesota and now president of the "James Murchie" named for the about $22.4 millions a month, or more University of Pennsylvania, was once than the price of 100 light tanks— grandfather of Harold Murchie, chief a passenger train conductor on the justice of the Maine Supreme Court which cost about $200,000 each near Milwaukee Railroad. the end of the last year. and currently a director of the Maine * * * Maine (kf&udJ?ailMmd Central Railroad. In 1850, there were only 9,021 miles According to his own keen memory June was a significant month in rail• of railroad in the United States— EMPLOYEES MAGAZINE mostly in the states bordering on the Ross started railroading as a lad of road history to Maine people. On OCTOBER, 1944 "about 16" cutting brush on the St. June 25, 1834 ground was broken for Atlantic Ocean. Today, there are 224,000 miles of railroad and 397,000 C.&P for 50 cents a day. His father, Maine's pioneer railroad—The Bangor, Wallace, was the superintendent and Oldtown & Milford (chartered in 1833 miles of all railway track in the United States—forming a vast net• didn't want his son to railroad. "He as the Bangor & Piscataquis) and now wanted me to go to the University of is part of our own system. work of steel highways traversing every state of the Union. Maine and become a civil engineer," Ross recalled, "but it just didn't ap• peal to me." The Maine Central Railroad has re• There are 28 railroad tunnels in the After eight years of braking, firing, ceived shipment of 250 new steel box United States each of which exceed and conducting Ross came over to the cars ordered last fall. They add to one mile in length. the fleet of 4,361 cars owned at the Washington County & Somerset Rail• end of 1950. During last year 41 * * * way in 1898 as a conductor when it stock cars and 62 box cars were con• As a youth, General Omar Bradley took over the St. Croix and Penobscot. verted to rack cars for loading our was employed during his summer va• When the Maine Central acquired the important pulpwood industries. cations as a freight handler on the Qounty road in 1911, Ross stayed Wabash Railroad at Moberly, Mo. right on and has been a conductor * *•_*»' ever since with the exception of a Railroads are the only common car• Class I railroads had more new mo• period during World War I when he riers in the United States required to tive power on order on April 1, 1951, was trainmaster of the Eastern Di• carry whatever is offered at published than ever before, there having been on vision, a position abolished in 1921. rates, regardless of how unprofitable that date 1,883 locomotives consisting The genial Ross has worked under such traffic may be. of 2,420 power units awaiting delivery. nine superintendents ("I liked them all, and I think they seemed to like me," he said,) including such early Maine Central officials as James Seven Engines Haul FIRST TRIP, LAST TRIP FOR TURNER PUPILS Arsenault, M. F. Dunn, Tom Mc- Ail-Time Record Tonnage Laughflin, M. A. Thomas, now assist• ant general manager, and J. L. Over Mountain Grade Moriarty. All existing Maine Central reco/rds He was one of four Maine Central for freight tonnage carried over %he employes who carried our late presi• Mountain Subdivision were broken re• dent Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard cently when RY-2 hauled 80 carloads the train at Eastport when he was including 14 empties to total 4,198 stricken with infantile paralysis as a tons "over the hill,"—the 15-mile back young man at Roosevelt summer breaking run from Bartlett to Craw• home on Campebello Island. He re• ford Notch. members Gilbert W. Miller, now our To do it, the strangest collection of assistant freight traffic manager, as motive power in the memory of cur• a young boy who used to climb up rent railroaders and old timers, was on the engine with him at Baring; and coupled up to beat the grade that rises Frank A. Murphy, now assistant to 1,250 vertical feet on the run. the vice-president-Traffic, as a young On the head end of RY-2 according baggageman at Calais. to Assistant Trainmaster John Robert* son were engines J>85, 563 and 683^ alj, It's also reliably reported that the 1,500 hp rated. unHKe middlewere young Ross Haycock (has he ever three 1,200's numbers 332, 333, and been anything else but young!), was 331. And on the rear as a pusher was a man held in awesome respect by the that old stalwart Government Mickey, braves of the Passamaquoddy Tribe. the 616 Class S. TnTif behemoth of motive power Off the reservation for a Saturday negotiated the run successfully, the night spree in the old days, they were middle and rear engines were cut off wont to challenge Ross' eonductorial at Crawfords and the head end en• authority until, by eye witness ac• gines carried the job into St. Johns- count, he several times "stacked 'em bury, Vt. up like cordwood" in the coach cor• Location of the engines at the head, ner. Soon only the sight of his gold SHEPHERDING 64 Turner grade school pupils on their first train ride was fun for Conductor R. A. Young, Lewis- middle, and rear, Robertson explained, ton. At right foreground Teacher Olive J. Bradford who planned the trip buttons and friendly visage was was necessary to avoid placing too needed to quiet the 'Quoddy celeb• much weight on bridges at one time. rants. (The following story, indicative that railroading hasn't lost its lure to the younger generation, describes the thrill of Turner school pupils on their first train ride and Ross received his 50-Year Gold Pass Watchllt ! Your appeared under the by-lime of Portland Evening Express Staff Correspondent Jack Quinn.) in 1936. Proud of his family, he lives b . By JACK QUINN with his wife, 76, and daughter at Calais. All his spare time is spent Safety's Slipping "mowing the lawn and keeping up Maine Central employes who estab• Turner —• This was a red letter day in Europe," said Mrs. Olive J. Brad• the place," he revealed, even to lished an enviable safety record in "pointing up" the chimney recently for the pupils of grades three, four, ford, teacher of grades three and four, 1950 had better look to their laurels five, and seven here as all but two of who originated the train ride idea without benefit of a staging. in order to maintain it according to a the 64 members had their first train after reading that the railroad was Keen-eyed, agile, courteous and report on the first three months of ride. And to make the trip all the discontinuing passenger train service 1951 released by the Safety and Fire smiling, with the physique of a man more eventful, the thrilled youngsters on the branch line from Rumford Prevention Department. 20 years his junior, Ross daily boards made the 25-minute journey on one Junction to Rumford. The Stores Department led the pa• Train 122 at 8:15 a.m. for the 133- of the last passenger trains to serve rade of safety with a 100 per cent de• Mrs. Bradford, who has spent 33 mile, three- and three-quarters hour Buckfield. crease in ICC reportable accidents, years of her life as a teacher in the trip to Bangor and returns on Train over the same three months in 1950. It is only a 12-mile trip from the elementary schools, began inquiring 129. The Engineering Department followed Buckfield station to Canton on the of her pupils as to how many had Maine Central Railroad, but it was taken a ride on a passenger train. To this singular man with his un• with a 49 per cent decrease and the the principal topic of conversation She was surprised to discover that usual and untarnished record of loyal Operating Department with a 24 per cent decrease for the three-month when the pupils were back in their not one of the 33 children had ever service goes the respect and admira• seats at the Turner village school. been on a train. tion of every fellow employe. Ross period. "I am getting more of a kick out After discussing the subject with Haycock is a man of whom the Maine The Mechanical Department, how• of this trip than the Summer I spent Mrs. Lizzie Gould, teacher of the fifth Central may be justly proud. ever, jumped to a 24 per cent increase over last year. 5 and seventh grades, it was learned While the trainmen were throwing TRANSPORTATION MONTH FOR SCOUTS that all but two of Mrs. Gould's 31 off mail bags and express packages a scholars had never had a ride on a group of the boys went up front passenger train. where Engineer F. C. Billington and School buses and private cars were Fireman Elmer A. Grant, both of secured to carry the children the eight Portland, showed them around the big miles from Turner Village to Buck- steaming iron horse. There was an• field station, and from Canton and other rush back to the sole passenger car when the boys heai'd conductor back to Turner. R. A. Young, Lewiston veteran rail• Buckfield station agent Oscar C. roader, shout, "All Aboard." Casey had a busy quarter of an hour A short time later the train stopped handing out the train ducats to the at Canton and the ride was over. The grinning children. When it was over, children filed onto the station plat• he hauled out his handkerchief, wiped form where they said goodbye to Con• his brow, and said: "That's the most ductor Young and Trainman Harold tickets I ever sold at one time for Green, Lewiston. Canton." After the train pulled out of the Casey is rounding out 44 years of platform, Canton station agent Stan• work around the Buckfield station, ley Plummer invited the group into the last 38 as station agent. his office and demonstrated telegraphy Just a few minutes after the last for the eager-eyed children. ticket was sold, the whistle was heard A short time later the group had and a grand rush was made for the started back to the hum-drum life of platform to be ready to climb aboard the school room, talk limited to the when Engine No. 454 came to a thrilling ride behind the huge iron grinding halt. horse.

a praiseful letter of congratulations Gold Pass Issued from President E. S. French. Executive Vice President T. G. To Harry Stetson Sughrue presented the pass to Stet• son in the Engineering Department TRANSPORTATION MONTH for the Cub Scouts of America meant visits to our facilities throughout the system. offices. At Portland, many of the cubs were conducted on tours of Rigby with inspection of diesels, tracks, and equip• Known throughout the system sim• ment, and in one case a special treat of cookies and ice cream in one of our restaurant lounge cars. General Passenger Agent H. J. Foster at upper right entertained a group of 19 Cubs and five Den Mothers in the restaurant ply as "Harry," the popular supervisor lounge car of Train 15 after it was set off at Union Station. While the Cubs enjoyed their refreshments, the joined the Maine Central as a rodman not-to-be-forgotten Mothers enjoyed tea and inspected the kitchen with interest, as Steward R. E. Bennett, left, in the Engineering Department in enjoyed it too wmwuwui^ 1899. He served in that capacity until 1909 when he was appointed road- master on the old Kineo Branch with offices at Oakland shortly after the Waterville Jack Room Somerset Railroad was acquired by Gets New Concrete Floor BROTHERLY LOVE the Maine Central. In 1915 he was promoted to roadmaster of a larger Among improvements completed at Running on our own steel rails and on division with headquarters at Lewis- Waterville Shops recently was lay• city streets is a different proposition as ton. Stetson became general super• ing of a new concrete floor in the steel your Train Crews Reporter Johnnie Keat• visor, maintenance of way, for the building known as the "jack room." ing found out recently. system with headquarters at Portland The building is used for the jacking in 1924. and inspecting of the trucks and un• Parking orjxCongress Street, Portland, der gear of passenger equipment. John neglected to feed the nickel park• •RECEIVING HiS FIFTY YEAR PASS from Executive A native of Brunswick, he is a mem• Paint removal and paint spraying of ing Jirreter with the usual result that he Vice President T. G. Sughrue, left, is General ber of the American Railroad Engi• Supervisor, Maintenance of Way, Harry W. Stetson, passenger equipment also is per• ^turned to find a ticket on his car. neering Association and of the Road- right formed there. masters and Maintenance of Way As• Dutifully reporting to pay the 50-cent Harry W. Stetson, veteran general sociation of America. A great hunt• The equipment used in the magnus fine at police headquarters, John learned supervisor, maintenance of way, com• ing and fishing enthusiast, he was a process of paint removal has been that brotherly love hath no place in pleted 50 years of service last month charter member of the Portland Skeet relocated, greatly increasing the work traffic violations — the ticket had come and was awarded Gold Lettered, Life Club and competed as one of its crack facilities and adding to the safety of from the officer on the b;at—his brother. Service Pass No. 151 accompanied by shots in many meets. workman applying paint remover.

6 CHRISTIE HONORED Youths Saved By Junction Men Bus Company To Serve Maritime Provinces Two Deering Junction employes The most significant expansion in Benefiting too, from the Maine Cen• saved two young Portland boys from the 26-year history of the Maine Cen• tral bus company's purchase of the a near drowning last month in a pond tral Transportation Company was an• important franchise, are the Boston & near our Stores Department ware• nounced last month by General Man• Maine Transportation Company and house. ager E. D. Westcott with the purchase the Canadian National Railways. of the MacKenzie Lines operating a The two youngsters, ages 8 and These companies will operate the franchise from Boston, Mass., to Glace 14, were trying out some home made buses between Boston and Portland Bay, Nova Scotia. rafts on the pond when the younger and through Nova Scotia and New boy lost his paddle and in attempting This progressive step forward by Brunswick. to jump over to his companions raft, the bus company will permit it to Steeped in tradition and history, a lost his balance and pitched them both perform connecting service between tourist's paradise of coastal and rural into the water. The younger boy Portland and Calais in the 900-mile beauty, the important provinces of couldn't swim and the older tried vain• through trip between Boston and New Brunswick and Nova Scotia may Glace Bay, but more important pro• ly to keep them both afloat. now be reached by Maine Central bus. vides a 24-hour through service be• Sighted by co-eds of nearby West- Seat reservations are made for this tween Boston and Halifax and less brook Junior College, the girls ran modern service from Boston to Glace than 30-hour service between Boston Christie to our department for help. Bay and Halifax and a large num• and Glace Bay. Some of the inter• ber of reservations have already been Lynwood Burgess swam about 100 mediate points served will be St. Maine Central Chief Special Agent feet out and rescued the boys, one of made. A. E. Christie received a singular John, Moncton, Truro, Amherst, and them clinging to the raft and the other Sydney. While the service has formerly been honor last month, with his election to floundering around in the water. a heavy summer operation, plans are Necessary approvals have been the committee of directors of the Na• Foreman Tom Roche, on the shore, under consideration to maintain a given to the transaction by regula• tional Railroad Protective Association applied artificial respiration to the year 'round schedule, according to tory bodies of Nova Scotia and New at their annual convention at San young boy until he was taken to the General Manager Westcott. Goddard Francisco. Christie was elected for a Brunswick. The Interstate Commerce hospital in a police car. Both boys revealed that charter parties even• three-year term. The committee di• Commission has granted its tempo• were released without serious injury tually may be handled from New York rary approval. Until permanent rights rects the activities of the association and points west in conjunction with from their nearly tragic escapade. are secured, ten buses of MacKenzie throughout the year. Trailways and BMTCo. Boston & Maine Chief Herbert G. Coach Lines will be operated under a Moxham was elected national chair• The game of love, unlike baseball, lease arrangement, and after acquisi• Tourist conscious Maine Central em• man of the committee at the conven• is never called on account of darkness. tion of permanent rights these buses ployes may wish to suggest to po• tion. » will be replaced by the most modern tential customers and friends the types of equipment, according to scenic beauty of Nova Scotia for a va• Superintendent E. K. Goddard. cation trip via Maine Central buses. NEW SCALES AT ROCKLAND

AT/FABYANS on March 29, 1907, these old timers lined up for a picture. Left to right, Bill Cotes, unknown, / Bill Mott, Jack Sloan, Earl Whitcher, and B. Bartlett. Engine 234 is heading the train

INCREASED carload tonnage over the years resulted in installation of new track scales at Rockland. The scales, of 150-ton capacity, are designed primarily to meet the requirements of increased tonnage of cement cars loaded by the Lawrence Portland Cement Company at Thomaston

8 LIME RIDGE Harry M. Treat, retired chief train dis• patcher and collector of railroad memorabilia that appears in this Maga• zine from time to time, is in search of a Maine Central Railroad employes' 3Mountain Division when we ran into/ BDITOR-lN CHIEF Lime Ridge, Canada. Has anyone one GEORGE PMCCALLUM they want to part with? ... .EDITOR WM. A WHEELER ASSOCIATE EDITOR (EMERITUS) NO COMPARISON WHAT RAILROADS DO IN AN Federal land grants to pioneer rail• roads in the United States were made HOUR to open up wild and unsettled terri• tory not provided with transportation Railway operations are so vast and and to enable the government to dis• railway statistics are so astronomical pose of vast areas of public lands as to be almost beyond compre• which it could not sell at any price A PATRIOTIC FAMILY hension. However, we may gain some without transportation. Present-day idea of the operations and perform• subsidies to airlines, waterways and ance of the railroads by considering highways yield no similar benefits to By JOHN J. KEATING some of the things the railroads do the country. Train Crews Reporter in an hour's time. For each hour of the day and night March SO, 1951 When patriotism was distributed in• more than 1,000 passenger and freight Editor to the hearts and minds of Americans, trains depart from their starting Maine Central R. K. Magazine the family of Foreman of Bridge terminals and an equal number ar• Another copy of your Magazine at hand. Crews Perley Gross, Bangor, came in rive at their destinations. Each hour And that is important to me because I for a lion's share. think that you put out an unusually g-ood boys, top right, not to be left out, of the day and night the railroads re• magazine. My travels over your Road are Perley and Mrs. Gross have just served IV2 years in the U. S. Army ceive for shipment around 4,200 car• confined to the summer when I go back seen their son, Nelson, 20, become the Nurse Corps in World War II. Below, loads of freight and deliver the same and forth to our summer home at Sor• fifth son to enlist in the tj. S. Marine left, is S/Sgt. Donald R. Gross, 24, number of carloads of freight to rento; but my interest in it is continuous, and I enjoy reading of the improvements Corps and the seventh member of the currently with the First Marine Di• destinations. They perform the equiv• that go on in my absence and the news family to see military service since vision in Korea. After the Pusan alent of transporting 60 million tons from your various correspondents—espe• World War I. perimeter combat his unit was ordered of freight one mile and 4 million pas• cially- when they mention someone I have Nelson, who left last month for boot into the amphibious assault and bat• sengers one mile. They receive for met on the trains, or at Washington tle for Inchon. handling nearly 17 thousand express Junction, or at the Bangor hives of ac• training at Parris Island, S. C, has tivity. shipments and 1,300,000 pounds of been employed as a trackman by the Pfc. George Gross, 22, below, right, S/ C. H. MERRILL Maine Central since his graduation also a Marine veteran of World War United States mail. Exeter, N. H. from John Bapst High School in 1948. II, and now has been called back to For each hour of the day and night Pictured above are the fighting active duty. the railroads pay out about $100,000 THE COVER Gross', brothers of Nelson. At left The Gross boys must run true to for ^federal, state and local taxes; A Maine Central employe and ama• is T/Sgt. Francis P. Gross, 29, the form, since Dad Perley, is himself a more than $200,000 for fuel, materials teur photographer is credited with this eldest brother, who fought with the veteran of the Argonne Forest and and supplies, and more than $500,000 month's cover. Third Trick Operator Bob First Marine Division in their heroic Belleau Woods engagements of World in wages. McComb, Mattawamkeag, typifies the defense of Guadalcanal and is now on War I. Vacationland beauty awaiting Maine recruiting duty in New York City. tourists this Summer with this unusual The amateur at bridge had made all Center, is former Marine Corps Ser• SQUELCH the expected bad plays—plus several view of Mt. Katahdin (Kar-tar-din) first geant Earl T. Gross, a member of a unexpected ones. Finally he turned to mountain in the Country touched by the communications unit attached to the A politician said to Horace Greeley another player. "In the same circum• sunrise. Taken from 31 miles away in U. S. Air Force in the Philippines dur• one day: stances," he queried, "how would you the town of Dolby, Bob used a red filter ing World War II and now a tele• "I am a self-made man." have played that hand?" for dramatic effect and posed his .son in phone companv emplove at Presque "That, sir," replied Greeley, "relieves The expert answered briefly: "Under the foreground to make this excellent Isle. the Almighty of a terrible responsi• scenic view bility." an assumed name." Mrs. Louis Kennedy, a sister of the

10 11 FAMOUS VIOLINIST TREATS TRAIN CREW TO PRIVATE CONCERT Members of the train crew on a Bangor-bound Maine Central passenger train were treated to a private concert E. W. Berry, 65, of Spurwink Ave• by a nationally famous violinist recently. nue, Cape Elizabeth, Me., after 46 Dave Rubinoff, who was en route to years' service. Berry began his rail• Augusta from Fort Worth, Texas, boarded roading as a carpenter at the old the train at Portland and inquired of Thompson's Point plant in 1905. Conductor W. F. Gleason if there was He served in that capacity until Your correspondent, Maurice W. Flynt, is a "quiet spot" where he could do a bit 1913 when he transferred to the mo• happily shingling a roof while enjoying his of practicing. The conductor escorted tive power department and became a vacation. We understand he can't go fish• him to a vacant passenger car. ing because the blackflies crawl up under yard conductor, a position he held at his hat and bite his pate. First-trick C. Rubinoff was so pleased with this ges• Rigby until his retirement. T. MacCrillis is also on vacation for two ture that he asked Conductor Gleason weeks. Walter D. Dunn, 69, of 27 Elsmere After a vacation in California General and other members of the train crew to Avenue, South Portland, after 44 Waterville Station and Yard Agent Hugh Travers has returned to his be his guests while he played several years' service. Dunn entered service By M. W. FLYNT duties. Mrs. Travers accompanied him on selections for them in his own inimitable the trip to visit their daughter. with the Maine Central as a clerk in About 50 youngsters from the grammar style. Yard Conductor J. M. LaPlante has re• 1907 and transferred to the Portland school in China, lie., under the leadership turned to work after having been off sev• of their teacher, Mrs. Johnston, made ar• Accompanying Rubinoff to Augusta Terminal Company in 1911. He had eral weeks for illness. rangements with Mr. Raymond Reny, chief Operator V. F. Atwood has been covering was his accompanist, Prof. Alexander been a clerk at the Portland freight clerk of the Waterville Freight Office, to Makofka. second trick in the Ticket Office, while house since that time. tour the Railroad Station, Freight House M. W. Flynt is on vacation. With three and Engine House May 8. They were all —From the Bangor Daily News Rocklandites on duty in the Ticket Office Harold L. Harlow, 67, of Byron, Me., sizes but had the same enthusiasm for now, Waterville personnel had better look everything they saw. After viewing Train to their laurels. after more than 41 years' service as a o's equipment which was standing at the station, they all crowded into the Ticket L. F. Blanchette has been covering first railroader. With five years' previous trick for C. T. MacCrillis' vacation. DAVID STAPLES DIES service with the old Portland and Office. Mr. C. T. MacCrillis sat at the telegraph key and tapped out a message Rumford Falls RR, Harlow came to for them. Bach one received a card cal• David H. Staples, 78, retired Maine the Maine Central about 1910. He endar showing a Maine Central train. After Central engineer, died Sunday morn• had been trainman and conductor on seeing Mr. Trott's Armstrong Restaurant ing, April 29, at his home, after more they next visited the baggageroom and A CUTIE in this clever Trains 214-213, Rumford - Portland, Agent Dyer's Railway Express Offices. The snapshot is Paul Richard than a year of failing health. After and during World War II gave up his Freight Office was next invaded and its per• Hopkins, seven months, ^1 40 years of service on the Maine Cen• conductor's rating in order to remain sonnel duly inspected. After the children grandson of Freight Han• tral, the veteran engineer climbed had viewed the long freight house with dler and Mrs. Leland S. in service on the Rumford Branch. Hopkins, Augusta down from the Flying Yankee into its piles of merchandise Mr. Reny then -Ml loaded them into their bus and conducted Union Station from Bangor "on time" John W. Herbert, 67, of 93 Atlantic them to the engine house. Mr. Furrow, at 8:30 June 28, 1938, to complete his Street, Portland, clerk in the Portland foreman, was on duty and with the help of the hostler crew, machinists and helpers last run. Terminal Company, after 40 years of saw that nothing was overlooked. service. Augusta He entered Maine Central service in The big thrill came when MeC 708, a big By ELLIS E. WALKER July, 1896. Despite his railroading, John A. Kriby, 67, of 28 Sheridan diesel, was wheeled out and set aside for he found time to become prominent Street, Portland, laborer for the Port• their inspection. Not one child stayed be• Clerk Telegrapher Don Reynolds is off on hind on the tour of the engine. Afterwards sick leave and has returned from Boston in the Democratic party in Maine. He land Terminal Company, after 39 they went into the roundhouse to see a where he underwent treatment. We all was chairman of the Waterville Board years of service. steam engine. hope for a speedy recovery. of Assessors and served as a repre• A letter of thanks to Mr. Reny written Clerk Telegrapher Vern Hutchinson is re• by the children follows: sentative to the State Legislature, Clarence J. Luce, 68, of Livermore lieving Reynolds on first trick. Falls, trackman, after six years of China Elementary School Mr. and Mrs. Richard Achorn are the and in 1944 was a Democratic candi• proud owners of a new home recently pur• service. China, Maine date for Congress in the Second Dis• May 11, 1951 chased in this city. Dick is third trick trict. He was a delegate to the 1940 Delmer L. Marston, 56, of 21 Potter Mr. Raymond Reny telegrapher at Waterville and Betty, clerk in freight office here. and 1944 Democratic national conven• Street, Brunswick, brick mason, after Maine Central Railroad Crossing Tender Arthur Doyon has re• tions. He" also served as legislative 36 years of service. Waterville, Maine turned from vacation spent in Boston and Dear Sir: agent for the Maine branch, Brother• Dover-Foxcroft. He was relieved by spare Steve Michaelzuk, 53, of 227 Dan- Crossing Tender Everett Kincaid. hood of Locomotive Engineers. We students of the 5th grade wish to forth Street, Portland, laborer for thank you for the time you spent and the Retired Crossing Tender, Adelbert L. Funeral services were held at Wat• the Portland Terminal Company, things you showed us at the railroad sta• Sands recently celebrated his 90th birthday after 33 years of service. tion on Tuesday. We especially enjoy go• at his home in Dover-Foxcroft. "Del" was erville. Several Maine Central En• ing- I lining h the Diesel Engine and blowing- for many years on first trick Bridge St., gineers served as bearers. They were Charles S. Pierpont, 57, o| 104 the whistle. this station. Archie Towle, Dennis Desmond, Thurl Madison Avenue, Madison, Me'.," clerk Yours truly, The Fifth Grade Hallowell Severy, Harry Lowell and Jim Coyne, and one-time Magazine reporter, after and Agent Ralph Tracy has returned from one-time MCRR engineer. 32 years of service. Sixth Grade vacation spent in Hartford, Conn. He was 12 13 relieved by Spare Operator Everett Ander• We hear that Stockman Owen T. Malia, son. who is on sick leave, is improving slowly. We hope to see him back on the job before long. Gardiner Section Foreman A. E. Newell and crew By M. L. SANBORN are wearing broad smiles, the reason, Extra Crew Foremen G. Thompson and C. Pooler Station Agent Dave Cameron motored to are installing crushed rock ballast in both his Summer camp in Harpswell this month east and westbound main lines west of to get things ready for the approaching Deering Jet. Station. season. Operator Wendell B. Lewis and family visited friends and relatives in Belfast this Waterville Shops month. By CHARLIE LAWRV FOR KEN STEVEN'S Paul Overfleld. operator, has bid off the job as agent at Steep Falls. Me. He Patrick Francis O'Donnell died very sud• recently moved his family there from denly at his home, 9S Western Avenue, Wat• Gardiner. erville, on the morning of May 15. He was Ralph Cascadden, agent at Richmond, born in Machias March 9. 1878. He had re• enjoyed a week's vacation this month. He sided in Waterville since 1912. He retired and his wife visited friends and relatives two years ago after 30 years of service as in Sherbrooke. Canada. His job was cov• a boilermaker in Waterville Shops. ered by Spare Operator A. D. Oulton from Painter William Mingo and Mrs. Mingo Steep Falls. were in Old Orchard Beach on a week-end visit with Mrs. Mingo's sister. "Parson" Charles Lawry was in attend• ance at the Annual Conference of Maine Methodism, convening in Bath, Maine. Painter Earl McCaslin is making plans to move into his camp at Patten Pond for the summer. Foreman Painter E. B. Hall was a visitor with his niece at Portsmouth. N. H. Painter Henry Pooler on a visit to his camp at Hustus. found the water in the pond to be very cold. Proud of their newly-reorganized degree team are the Masons at Waterville Painter Apprentice Arthur Campbell is Shops. First organized in 1939 by the late Clerk Clarence Plummer, first Master, trying out on the mound for the Fairfield the team was deactivated during World War II. Currently all the officers have Town baseball team. blue frocks and overalls with the legend "Maine Central Shops" embroidered on Clarence Garfield, foreman on the Hill, the backs. F,nch one has his own jewel of office also. The Fellow Craft are was extended an invitation to attend a gala equipped with white frocks and overalls with MCRR Shops on the back, and lobster supper at the usual hour at the white gloves and caps. The Working Fellow Craft have blue neck handkerchiefs home of George Hustus in Fairfield. Clar• while the others have red neckerchiefs. The quartet and pianist wear choir ence waited until 7:30 and had to thumb robes of black with white collars. The team carries Its materials in two ap• his nephew for a ride to the Hustus home. propriately lettered trunks. All the material and uniforms were purchased by«„ Vincent Vigue, laborer on the hill, was voluntary contributions by Masons in the Shops. Thus far the team has worked married recently to Miss Bernice Mills, degrees at Dexter, Rangor, Pittsfleld, Readfleld, Monmouth, China, Waterville and Agent Ralph Tracey at Ilallowell had a* telephone operator in Oakland. They are Fairfield. The unit Is unlike any other degree team in the state. week's vacation this month. He was re• making their home in Fairfield. lieved by Spare Operator Everett Anderson. It was Anderson's first regular job as lie is Carman Henry Gleason is on vacation a new operator. He's working the second during Avhich time he will enjoy himself Paul LeBlanc. carman, is back on the Machinist Theodore W. Morey. is in Pusan trick at Bartlett. N. H. now. putting a new wall under his house. job after being in the clinic in Boston. Korea, with the armed services. Painter "Larry" Folsom was a delegate Baggageman Olin Gordon dropped a heavy Carman R. S. Taylor is car knocking in William A. Chase. Jr.. has completed his to the Grand Lodge of Masons held in Port• the yard for Roland Dorval, who is in Rock• machinist apprentice at Waterville Shops skid on his foot recently but it held up his land. Maine the week of April 31 to May 3. fishing operations only temporarily. land. and lias accepted employment at the Water• Carman Floyd Case and L. S. McCommic Carman "Joe" Bickford is back to work ville Iron Works. Section Foreman Albert Allaire and his have bid off jobs in the Passenger Room. crew have been working on the track on after an attack of the flu. Charles Nelson King allegedly went fish• Carman Leroy Lank is making extensive Carman W. J. Dusty is back to work after ing for smelts at Newport, and it seems as the Cobbosseecontee Branch. repairs on his camp at Kingsbury. Signal Foreman George Curtis is wonder• having all his teeth extracted. if he had forgotten his table of measure• ing just who nailed the dead rabbit on his Tractor Driver Walter Marston is on va• Carmen M. V. Belyea, E. L. Burgess, F. R. ments learned during his school days. section house recently. It seems that cation. Case. H. W. Knight. L. S. McCommic and Fred Gurney has taken the place* of Hec• George is always complaining about the Mrs. G. Kenneth Stevens, wife of Painter G. P. McCorrison, R. W. Roberts, N. C. tor Midland as sweeper and gardener for 1 >M<1 luck he has while hunting rabbits and G. Kenneth Stevens, is making a visit to Thompson, and Carman Helpers R. E. the Machine Shop. so some kind-hearted and generous soul Michigan City where he is inspecting new Boulette and John DaPrato are working in Dorothy M. Lord, R. N., is sporting a tried to give him one to console him. box cars being built at the Pullman Car Co. the Passenger room. brand new car. Mrs. Stevens will remain there with him Engineer Harry Pettengill has recently Foreman Edward Johnston is sporting a Machinist Ralph Barton attended the fish until he completes his tour of duty. brand new car. derby at China Lake. purchased a new car equipped with snow Retired Millman Charles Sibley was a tires ami burglar proof locks. Carman R. S. Moxie is grandfather for The Once-A-Month Club met Fridav night, recent visitor at Waterville Shops. the first time. The object of his adoration May 18. This club meets monthly' and is Retired Express Agent Romeo Mains of Retired Electrician Charles Gibson was Augusta called at the office this month is a granddaughter born recently. sponsored by the machinists and' its pur• calling on the boys in Waterville Shops re• Walter McCaslin moved his house from pose is to entertain some retired machinist. sporting a new car and plans for a trip to cently. Buffalo. site in South China for a distance of five Arthur Pollard was entertained at this Broomerator Leon Cookson was trans• miles to a site near his father, Laborer meeting. Previously invited were Merton ferred from the Machine Shop to the Mill Harry McCaslin. Brann and Eddie Burton. Deering Junction Room. Painter Cleo Frappier has returned to Tool Room employe Walter Pearl has Helper "Phil" Gooch is out on a .week's work after a long illness. By TOM ROCHE purchased a new house on Columbia Road vacation. Herman H. Rines, chief clerk, is sporting Machinist Hank McCullev was seen Shipping and Receiving Clerk James R. Helper J. E. Bouchard is back to work a brand new car. crawling on the floor recently in pursuit of Copp has returned to work from sick leave. after recovering from a surgical. Sergeant Theodore W. Morey, Jr., son of a glass eye. 14 15 this part of the state on account of his Bangor Operating fraternal connections. Friends also were By M. E. GIBBONS grieved to learn of the tragic death of Pro• fessor Benjamin C. Kent of the Engineer• Recently a group of Cub Scouts from ing Department at U. of M. Among the Den 5, Orono, accompanied by Mrs. Ken• survivors are his wife, Alice, who is the STATIONED at Langley Air neth Miles, den mother, came to Bangor to daughter of the late Eastern Division Engi• Force Base, Va., is Daniel look over railroad operations. They were neer E. L. Stafford, another daughter, Calais P. Mclver, Jr., son of escorted to the Engine House, Freight Mary, is the wife of Fred E. Holmes, Prof, Vanceboro Yard Conductor House, around the Yard and Passenger Sta• of Hydraulics, University of Iowa. Holmes By P. D. ADAMS D. P. Mclver tion. The happy group then left on No. 93 was for many years road master on the for a train ride back to Orono. Conductor Henry White is on vacation. Eastern Division. Trainman and Mrs. P. L. Boudreau are Born April 22 to Mr. and Mrs. Grant We extend congratulations to R. C. Plum- receiving congratulations on the birth of a Saunders, a daughter, Brenda Louise; mer who was recently presented with a daughter whom they have named Celinda. weight, 7 pounds. 4 ounces. Mrs. Saunders Hamilton watch by the Remington-Rand Co. Stationmaster "Ash" Wood and Mrs. is a daughter of Agent Burt Pullen. in view of his 25 years' service record. He Wood recently went to Boston to attend Mrs. H. A. Libby has returned from a is the son of Eastern Division Engineer A. the Ringling Bros. Circus at Boston Garden. visit with her daughter, Mrs. Linwood Burt I. Plummer, deceased, and his sister Mary and family in Westmoreland. N. H. Baggagemaster A. M. Colpitts and Mrs. is employed in the Engineering Department, Colpitts have gone to New York on va• Agent and Mrs. Burt Pullen are passing General Office, Portland. FROM COAST TO COAST cation. a few days in Boston visiting their sons, went Recruit William F. Sympathy is expressed to Fireman and Burt and Parker. Tracy, son of Vanceboro Mrs. M. E. Southard on account of the death Yard Brakeman A. R. Tracy of her mother, Mrs. Abbie B. Hall, aged 93. when called into service Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Allen of Co• Oct. 2 and assigned to a lumbia Falls celebrated their 50th wedding Camp Cook, Cal. anniversary on April 21 and were guests of honor at an open house. They are the par• . art - j^^. ents of Electrician Shapleigh Allen of Ban• gor whose wife made the wedding cake. All six children of the elderly couple and their are hoping for her speedy recovery and re• families attended the Jubilee celebration. turn to work. HOUSEHOLD HINTS—When boiling an egg General Agent W. L. Blanchard suc• turn it around frequently in order to keep ceeded in landing a nine-pound togue near the yolk in the center. his camp at Grand Lake recently and some Machinist Helper Charles J. Wilson III of our clerks have been lucky in landing acted as one of the ushers and Mrs. Wilson several salmon from Lambert Lake. was matron of honor at a very prominent Trainman M. P. Barrett, who has been church wedding recently. convalescing from a fractured ankle is much improved at this writing. Laborer L. W. McLaughlin was hos• TRANSFERRED to the important new B-36 base at Chief Clerk H. D. Davis enjoyed one pitalized April 25. Limestone is Air Force S/Sgt. Harvey McFarlane, son week of vacation, April 30 to May 4, in Noticed where everybody's friend Charles of Lineman W. H. McFarlane. He was formerly at Portland and Bangor. Doherty of the Boston Office is to officiate Camp Otis, Falmouth, Mass. as one of the judges for the first annual spring field trial of Pointer dogs. This Bangor Car Department event is to be sponsored by the Union River Conductor and Mrs. R. A. Constantine Valley Fish and Game Association. Some have moved to their summer home in Perry. By C. A. JEFFERDS of the most valuable pointers of New Eng• Constantine is working on the Eastport Carman Helper E. W. Drew informs us land are already registered. Think I will switcher. that he has just heard from his two sons, Harry W. Drew, Seaman, U.S.N., and Robert enter my sooner dog. Charles certainly gets Brakeman George Townsend who has been around where the pups are barking. on the Eastport switcher is now braking on L. Drew, stationed at Governor's Island, Electrician G. M. Hathaway is planning the Calais local. N. Y., M. P. a pleasant trip about the first of June. He Stationary Fireman and Mrs. Daniel Mrs. A. B. Friedman, nee Lena Golden, will accompany his son-in-law, daughter and Campbell are on vacation and left last formerly stenographer in office of G. F. C. R. family, Prof, and Mrs. J. S. Dinsmore, Jr., night to visit their daughter, Mary, in Long was a recent caller, having just returned who are leaving with a large new trailer for Island City. from the south where she and her husband Raleigh, N. C, where Dinsmore will study Operator and Mrs. W. M. McKav have spent the winter. for his Ph.D degree. He has. been teach• returned from a visit with their son Nash The following have enjoyed their annual ing mathematics at U. of M. for the past and family in North Berwick, Maine. vacation since the last publication : Roland three years. Born May 8 to Railway Express Agent E. Lancaster, Jr., carman, and Coach Clean• DELEGATE to the Los Angeles convention of the and Mrs. W. E. Ilarriman, a daughter, ers W. R. Moore and D. J. Smith. Brotherhood of Railway Clerks is Baggageman Bill Paul S. Hatt, who received his B.S. De• Katliy Campbell; weight 7 pounds. 6 ounces. Geo H. Beaton has been re-hired and is Curran shown with Mrs. Curran on the eve of their gree at U. of M. in 1949, has entered the now stationed at Union Station, Bangor, as departure from Bangor. (Bangor Commercial Photo) employ of the Motive Power Department coach cleaner. as crew dispatcher. He is married and has Vanceboro Prescott H. Powers, coach cleaner, re• one daughter. He taught school for one By HARRY D. DAVIS signed from the service May 14, to enjoy Bangor Motive Power year but thinks that crew dispatching is a lot more fun. his Railroad Annuity. Mr. Powers was pre• By C. II. LEARII Sereno F. Kelley, enginehouse man, re• viously employed in the M. of W. Dept., he Mrs. E. H. Stevens, wife of Portland Di• tired May 1 after many years' service. entering this department in 1945. Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Anderson of Bangor vision Engineer, was installed Worthy Grand Operator A. M. Gray has been assigned Safety Inspector C. L. Quigley was a re• have announced the engagement of their Matron of the Eastern Star of the State second trick here and has moved his fam• cent caller here giving a very fine talk on daughter. Valerie Ann. to Richard F. Hig- of Maine in Portland, May 23. This hap• ily here from Clinton. safety to the Car Department personnel. gins. Richard is employed at Union Sta• pened to be Earl's birthday. A banquet M. R. Hilchey, enginehouse man. is mov• We are glad to welcome back in our midst tion Baggage Room and is a brother of Fire• celebrating the occasion was held at a local ing his family from propertv of E. B. Sears Arthur M. Kelsey, custodian of the Bangor man Leo J. Higgins. Portland Hotel. At first Stevens thought on Church Street to that of Clerk A. B. Tar Plant located at river side of F»eight Many Bangor friends were sorry to hear the banquet was honoring his birthday and Blanchard on Holbrook St. Yard, Arthur loading all trucks for the tar• of the death of former Engineer H. S. Gove he was very much elated but when he found Clerk Villa T. Wescott is at present a pa• ring of roads in Bangor, this being a fore• on April 27. Howard was a very popular it was an event sponsored by the Eastern tient at Russell Hospital at Brewer. We runner of summer. employe and was well known throughout Star he became despondent.

16 17 Many employes of the Motive Power De• winner of an elec• Portland Freight Office and partment enjoyed a chicken supper and tric refrigerator at dance on the evening of May 24 at Lake the Better Homes Freight House Side Landing, Pushaw, Frank Davis of Bos• Exposition. ton. General Chairman of the Machinists Portland Machinist Helper By ALICE A. MCLAUGHLIN AND Union, District 42, and General Foreman Joseph Ashley in• MARJORIE J. QUIGLEY E. O. McGarry were guests of honor. formed me early in Have been given to understand that Port• the month that his A number of our sick employes have re• land Division Engineer Leon A. Hunter Rigby Engine House wife's mother fell sumed their duties after being absent, lost his left thumb while splitting kindling and broke her hip. among whom are Freight Checker Clifford wood at his home the latter part of April. By ALBEET B. WETJIORE The lady was the H. Foss, Loader and Caller Clifford J. Saw a postal card from one of his cronies wife of former Richards and Freight Clerk-Machine Oper• up in Gorham saying "He operated three Boiler Foreman ator Ludwig Starling. power saws, a power planer, had three axes We regret the death of our fellow worker James Martell of the Former F-21 Clerk, now Assistant De• and a hatchet and if he (Hunter) came out Electrician Fred Wade, an employe of the Thompson's Point they could trim the right thumb to match livery Clerk Patrick J. Flynn recently at• Portland Terminal Company dating back days, and further tended a game of the World Series in Bos• the one be lost." Didn't learn just what to the old Thompson Point shop days. He back. Hunter has done about it. ton. Joe is an ardent baseball fan. was also well known about town in con• Many of the boys Demurrage Clerk Fay L. Marcroft has A most successful dinner meeting of the nection with the trade unions of elec• Bangor Chapter of the Trowel Club was are removing the been having a week's vacation. tricians. Three days before he died a purse shutters from their held Wednesday. May 9, in Bangor. The was presented to him at the hospital of Spare Freight Clerk Joanne C. Bogdahn following officers were unanimously re• various cottages in was with us recently; she has been hav• a considerable sum of money donated by anticipation of the elected for the ensuing year. E. H. Stevens, some of the boys at the shop. A floral con• ing several teeth extracted, which was not Hermon. Vice-President, and head of the coming summer too pleasant. We trust that is over and tribution was sent also. months at the lakes Local Club : C. H. Leard of Hampden, Sec• Local 525 was represented at the annual she will be able to get in to see us more retary ; P. F. Boudreau. Bangor, Treasurer. in the area around STATIONED at Camp often now. district convention, held at Boston, by Ma• Portland. Pickett, Va., is Pvt. Rob• Stevens made the following appointments : chinist Joseph DeRoche. He also attended Loader and Caller Francis L. Farrell and A. W. Crocker, chaplain : Sick Committee: the system federation convention, in com• Charles Henry, a ert Marcroft wife were in Boston recently, attending ball G. A. Carle, George Felch, Forrest Brags-' pany with Boilermaker Clair Libby of the furloughed machin• games. and Gilbert Karnes. Finance Committee: Boilermakers' local. ist, was in the shop to visit us last week Also, Loader and Caller Timothy J. Crow• M. E. Willett. J. L. Blethen and A. J. Robin• Several deer have been seen lately around and informs me that Mrs. Henry is now ley, who is also interested in how the son ; Entertainment : H. R. Sawyer. P. F the premises of the homes of some of the totally blind after an eye ailment. World Series is going to turn out. Boudreau and Lloyd Littlefleld. A Floral men. Even those living in thickly in• Store's Department Clerk, and Laborer Loader and Caller Thomas J. Foley has Fund was established and a sum of money habited localities. John MacVane are celebrating jointly the been substituting out to Rigby recently. contributed as a foundation. Rule Examiner At least three new cars have appeared date May 9 which is the 39th birthday and Eugene Winslow of Portland made a few the 39th wedding anniversary of Joe and Wife of Freight Checker Dennis J. Shea on the parking area outside the shop this expects to attend services in which her pertinent remarks regarding Club affairs month. Machinists Thurlow Poland, and John, respectively. and objectives. The next meeting will be Roscoe Woodrow of the Bridge and Build• brother-in-law and sister's son, Rev. Francis Ralph McKelvey. Also Machinist Helper L. McFarland, will participate, in Washing• held on June 11. Maurice Gardner are the proud owners. ing crew of which he is general foreman, was 63 years old on May 9. ton. D. C. She will accompany Freight Recent travelers included : Mrs. W. B. We have had several more groups from Clerk Frank McFarland and wife, and their Hanson to Springfield and New Britain : the various schools and churches in the vi• Engine Dispatcher Leroy "Coke" Kane has a new set of golf clubs, and also a new daughter. Helen M. Crew Dispatcher and Mrs. Joseph R. Mc- cinity mostly representing the Cub Scouts, Mrs. James F. Galen, wife of loader and Manus to Springfield and Hartford: Fire• and Girl Scouts. pair of shoes to go with them. They are man B. R. Carmichael and wife to Wash• size 14 it is reported. caller, expects to leave shortly to visit her We were honored by a visit from General daughter in Sterling. 111. ington. D. C. ; Engineer F. W. Estabrook and Chairman Frank L. Davis of the Machinists The annual banquet of the New England wife to New York City : Sta. Fireman and during the month at the shop and also at a Railroad Club held at the Statler Hotel Mrs. B. H. Coombs and daughter went to meeting. was attended by James Mills. Didace Burke, Troy, N. Y.; Hostler B. H. Duddy, wife, Laborer Edward Cribby announces the and Mathew "Frank" Kane all of the Stores two daughters and young son. to New York : birth of a son. Laborer Joseph Cribby is Department. Mrs. H. R. Eames. wife of foreman, to the proud grandpa. The alertness of Laborer Elmer Lord no Philadelphia. J. E. Blake was operated Mrs. Laurence Lanciault. wife of Ma• doubt saved the shanty at the fuel oil on in St. Joseph's Hospital, April 20. chinist Laurence Lanciault was the lucky track from considerable damage, if not total destruction when he discovered a fire # and promptly extinguished it on May 13. Machinist Rosario DeMers has made ap• 1 plication for a position on the Canadian National Railroad at Englehart, Ontario. This is the former homeland of his wife. Summer is here at last. On the first real warm day General Foreman Welch appears with his usual straw hat. Our Master Mechanic Harold Hook at this date is just recovering from a bout with the virus grippe cold that has been prevalent this Spring. The usual collection for a fund to defray expenses for the preparation of the flower bed around the flagpole to ready it for Me• morial Day was taken up at our weekly safety meeting. Our Safety board now 1 reads 185 days at this date, May 19. A GROUP OF WELL KNOWN MAINE CENTRAL BOYS taken in St. Petersburg, Fla., March 18, are, left to A new face appears in the Store's De• lit" -^^^^^M^m^^m right: Charles (Bill) Watson, engineer, Portland Division, retired; Carl Haines, retired, formerly general agent at partment office, that of Clerk John Butkis Northern Maine Junction and at time of retirement agent at Winthrop; Charles Waterman, Portland Division engi• who is relieving Joseph Malloy. Malloy is FATHER AND SON are Portland Freight Checker F. neer, retired; George Ellis, Portland Division engineer, wintering in Florida; Waldo Reeves, retired conductor, and subbing for Jeri Flaherty who has gone to Clayton Hoar and son Stuart. Stuart will graduate Fred 0. Wood, retired, formerly superintendent of the Portland Division. Mrs. Watson snapped the picture and the West coast to attend the Clerks' Con• from South Portland High School in June. Dad has they have every appearance of being a bunch of husky, healthy, happy, howling, humdingers. I'm wondering if vention and to visit his daughter at Long another son, three daughters and eight grandchildren— Carl has that old fishing tackle along with him Beach. a family of which to be proud! 18 Portland Terminal Operators Beecher Falls, Vt. By D. J. WILSON Charles Frost, third trick, Tower One, By DON DECOSTEE has recently purchased a new 1948 car. I Miss Ruthie Goldrup, daughter of B'ire- can see where he and his family are going man Ernest Goldrup, has recently undergone to enjoy the summer months. APPOINTED TO the United an appendectomy in the Central Maine Gen• Bob Faraday, first trick, Tower Two, was States Military Academy at eral, Lewiston. off sick for two days while Joe Pouliot cov• West Point is Robert L. ered his job on his relief days. Chase, 21, son of Signal Joe Connelly, first trick, Tower Three, Maintainer and Mrs. John whom I reported as returning to work April L. Chase of Lancaster, 23, was an error. Joe did not return until N. H. May 14 making a total of two months off with sickness. We are glad to see that you are back, Joe, and have recovered from your illness. Leonard King, third trick, Tower Four, By JACK HAYES, CHARLIE EAELEY AND took his vacation the first two weeks of LUCILLE O'BEIEN May. Operator G. F. Bolduc covered his No more Class O engines up this way ; thev took 'em away. We now have dicsel Lucille O'Brien, clerk in the general man• job. ager's office and your reporter for these Ralph Dyer, second trick operator, Cum• unit 303 operating out of Beecher Falls IN THE SERVICE are Julia E. Griffin and William J. to Quebec Jet. and return daily. Track many months, is on a six-months leave of berland Mills, is getting his camp at Sebago Griffin, daughter and son of Carman Peter L. Griffin, absence. News items from any Transpor• Lake into shape for the summer months. Super Dodge tells us that Foreman W. N. Rigby. Julia is with the Marines stationed at San Trecarten followed the three dead, cold, tation Company personnel throughout the We'll all be seeing you, Ralph, when the Diego, Cal., and son Bill is also a Marine stationed system will be gratefully received by the hot weather sets in. Class 0 engines to Rigby to bid them in the Philippines good-bve. And with tears in his eyes, yet. Magazine. Turn in your items to area re• Bill Graham, third trick operator, Deer• Conductor S. L. Chandler is covering the porters Charlie Earley, Jack Hayes and ing Jet., and Roger Powers, third trick, Carman Ivan Perkins and family visited Jake Astle. Your cooperation is earnestly Tower Two, are going to make sure their Beecher Falls to Quebec Jet. and return job, Calais over the week end. with Engineer C. J. Bolduc. solicited. vegetables are fresh this summer. The General Foreman Richard Dole attended Portland and Lewiston garagemen are boys are planning a garden on Bill's land Spare Crew Foreman J. F. Chadbourne a banquet of the New England Railroad and his outfit are at Beecher Falls at pres• busy whipping the newly-acquired Mac• at South Windham. I'm sure more of us Club, in Boston recently. Kenzie Line equipment into shape for the wish we had the space to do the same. ent, finding plenty to do surfacing and fix• Carman Donald Perkins and family have ing up in general. Donald Ainsworth, anticipated heavy Summer tourist business. Leo Campagna's (relief man Tower Two), moved back to their camp at Highland Lake We're pleased to report that Johnny Ar• wife is now the proprietor of "The Casco formerly with Cleaver Nealley on the joint for the summer. work, is cooking for Jim. nold, hospitalized since Christmas is mak• Bay Tea Room," in Yarmouth, Me. If any Carman Murray Campbell is living at ing rapid progress toward complete recovery. of you fellows and your family want a Patrolman Percy Chandler and his as• Highland Lake for the present. sistant B. P. Nealley have started the sea• Submitting and awarding of bids this pleasant ride and a good meal that's the Carman George Thompson is on his va• month is expected to bring extensive re• place to go. son's patrol run from Bartlett to Hiram cation. and return. shuffling throughout the system with addi• Ed Gallant, first trick, Superintendent's Helper Joe Martell is taking his vacation W. P. Moody of the Bartlett engine house tion of several new runs through the Office, has had a new motor job done on now. acquisition of the MacKenzie Line and new his car. I wonder if his weekly week end has started his vacation by going to Boston Carman Donald Perkins in testing out to see some ball games. policy of through operation developed with trips to Rumford necessitated it. his new outboard motor and boat had to the Trailways System. Nancy Shuman, daughter of Arnold Shu- swim ashore recently as his motor caught Roger King, son of F. P. King, is home on furlough. He entered the Navy early Operators Eddie Frank and Slim Wheeler man, second trick. Superintendent's Office, fire and set the boat afire. were due to take oft: on vacation at press recently celebrated her first birthday. Those Carman Raymond Palmer has returned this Spring. Says he likes the outfit very much and we are pleased to see him and time. Some of the boys who aided Eddie of us who have seen her all agree that she to work following his vacation. with his well-digging at Highland Lake is the picture of her dad. Helper Joe Marten's mother, who is 87 see how well he looks. All the service boys appear to gain weight the first few months. are hoping he'll complete it so visits this years old, had the misfortune to fall and summer will be strictly for pleasure. Rigby Car Department break her hip. Robert L. Chase, 21, son of Signal Main• Ray Briggs, Rockland's own Tyrone Carman William Hale attended the B. R. tainer and Mrs. John L. Chase of Lan• Power, vacationed during May attending By BILL HALE C. of A. Joint Protective Board Convention caster, has been appointed to the United some ball games in Boston. His run was Coach Cleaners Joe Chase, Edwin Cash and System Federation No. 18 Convention States Military Academy, West Point, N. Y., ably filled by Battlin' Bob Leighton, who, and Herbert Betts have taken their vaca• in Boston recently. by Congressman Norris Cotton of New incidentally is busy planning a new home tions. Hampshire. The New Hampshire youth in Falmouth. received his appointment as a result of Helper Richard Skerritt has returned competitive examinations in which he Operator Cam Connors, one-time literary from his vacation. placed third in the State. light of the Portland Junior College News Carman Walter Peabbles has returned to and sometime spare board man, has returned work after several days' sickness. Chase graduated from Lancaster High from a fishing trip to Moosehead Lake, Former Chief Clerk Harold McDuffie has School in June 1948. While in high school where no doubt, he talked the fish into the returned home from the hospital but is not Hlountai he was active in the band and orchestra boat with his silver-tongued oratory. able to return to work at the present time. and played in the New Hampshire All-State Gil Powers vacationed last month around Carman Jerry Niles was out sick for sev• Orchestra, won his letter in basketball, was the old homestead in Freeport. eral days. President of the Camera Club and partici• Carman William Hale, Jr., and family Bartlett, N. H. pated in other extra-curricular activities. Mr. Chase is currently enrolled at the Uni• visited in Massachusetts and New Hamp• By O. R. BUEDWOOD shire during his vacation. versity of New Hampshire as a sophomore. Carman Tallas Michaud has returned to Pvt. H. D. Greenwood is home on fur• At U. N. H. he has been majoring in Busi• work following a month's vacation, during lough from Camp Cook, Cal. He is de• ness Administration. He has been active which he and his wife visited in Florida lighted to be home for a visit and we are on the campus as a member of the Uni• general Offices and the Middle West. all pleased to see him. Says he has gained versity Band, has been a Proctor in one of Carmen Fred Porter and Paul Lajoie are 30 pounds since entering the army. the men's dormitories and is Vice-President of the U. N. H. Student Union which is on their vacations. Operator F. P. King, second trick at By MARY E. MORSE, GERTRUDE C. HOLBROOK, Clerk Tom Foley is working in the office Bartlett, is on vacation and his job is be• the largest student organization on the campus. He was an official delegate to the DORIS M. THOMAS, LILLIAN G. SMALL AND during Mr. McDuffie's absence. ing covered by Operator E. S. Anderson of PEGGY LOPEZ Carman and Mrs. William Hale were in Hallowell. '•* • -• New England Regional Conference of Stu• Bar Harbor recently to attend the funeral Agent Hebert at Fryeburg is also taking dent Unions in December and delegate to We all envied Benjamin I. Warner, Asst. of Mrs. Hale's brother. a vacation. the National Convention of Student Union B&B Supv'r taking his vacation during the held recently at East Lansing, Mich. beautiful spring weather.

21 wedding anniversary in April. An account in the Brunswick Record recalled the original story of their wedding. Several fellow workers from Portland and Gardiner attended a reception for the couple. They received a letter of congratulations from Governor and Mrs. Frederick G. Payne. Mrs. Gertrude Whitehouse, stenographer, Purchasing Department, has returned from vacation. Mrs. Barbara Young substituted. Miss Martha True, stenographer, Freight Claims, was one of the lucky ones to be in New York City on April 20 and saw the FAMILIAR FACES are General MacArthur parade and celebration those of Flagman George having practically a ringside seat in an Kennedy, left, Railway Ex• apartment on Park Avenue, opposite the press Messenger Eddie Os- Waldorf Hotel. born, center, and your Grace Morrison, clerk, Accounting Depart• reporter at Waterville Sta• ment, returned recently from visiting tion, Operator Maurice friends at Southern Pines, N. C. Flynt posed beside Train 11 It's rumored a national industry maga• CELEBRATING their 50th wedding anniversary at a re• zine may soon feature Louie Lentz's pride ception attended by many fellow railroaders were Re• and joy, the intricate network of gates, tired Signal Supervisor and Mrs. Frank Avery, Bruns• lights, and bells at the Congress Street wick crossing.

Bon Voyage to Fred Jones, chairman, Engineering Department, who resigned May 16 to complete his training at the U. of M. under the G. I. Bill. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Plumly welcome Happy to report Station Baggagemasters April 26. He was employed by the Port• guests to their new home at the Hudders- John Cady and Arthur Brookings at Port• land Terminal for 43 years. fleld Apts., 197 Pine Street, having recent• land Union Station have returned to duty Sympathy is extended to the relatives on ly sold their home on Glenwood Avenue. after long illnesses. the death of Retired Engineman "Dave" Sympathy is extended R. B. Whalen, stu• Red Cap Attendant Alba Cornish, Port• Staples at Waterville. dent supervisor, Signal Department, who land Union Station, has joined the United Mrs. Josephine McGrath, clerk at the was suddenly taken ill with appendicitis and States Navy. A farewell party was given news stand at Portland Union Station, confined to the Maine Eye & Ear Hospital. him Saturday, May 26, by his many friends. spent a few days in Hartford, Conn., visit• A good time was had by all who at• ing her sister. tended the New England Railroad Club A good way to avoid cutting the lawn banquet at Boston in the Statler Hotel on for the rest of the season—do as Railway Assistant Foreman Hector Fogg was a May 10. Just one more thing to make us Express Messenger "Ed" Osborn did; buy patient at the Maine General Hospital for '•gals" wish we were "guys" ! a power lawn mower, start the motor and surgery. get as close to the flower garden as you can, Chief Dispatcher John Lyden has moved A recent new employe, W. Laird Haines when no one is looking, mow a few down, to Monmouth. Figure we will have a lot 3rd, Inspector MeCRR, graduate of D. of from here Marion and Alice take over. of garden vegetables this Fall. John is a M., and has been working locally for engi• great farmer. neers and contractors. MISS NATHALIE M. SMITH, whose marriage to A few of the boys on vacation are : A. L. Leading Testman M. J. Wilkes of the Sig• In case you may wonder who just whizzed Richard Aylward of the Advertising Department was Spencer. G. J. Fournier, K. W. Nutting. an event of last month was surprised with a beauti• R. L. Willey, H. Green, P. D. Bradford, E. F. nal Department, was married Saturday, by in that beautiful new black car. it's the May 12 at Bangor. Pete Connarys and family. fully decorated desk prior to her termination. Office Gallagher, J. J. Kelly, Jr., M. E. Johnson, Francis "Toby" Rowe, ticket account• girls presented her with a brass table lamp, and a T W. Vashaw, L. W. Judkins. W. F. Ames. ant, with the National Guard at Camp dozen roses C. E. Lord. L. G. Durrell, R. E. Clukev. Stewart, Ga.. stopped in to say "hello" D. 0. Needham, A. F. Callahan, and E. while home on furlough recently. Miss Olive Norris, former clerk-stenog• Beaudoin. Clerk Fred Harris and Mrs. Harris are rapher here and one-time employe of the The Maine Association of Railroad Vet• the proud parents of a new baby son, born Publicity Department, is replacing Miss erans held their monthly meeting at Wat• at Mercy Hospital. This is their second Smith. Miss Norris has been employed at erville, April 22. Dinner was served at child. the Maine General Hospital. the Jefferson Hotel. About 70 members and Retired Signal Supervisor and Mrs. Frank Earle Bennett, clerk, Freight Claims, re• their wives attended. Banjo solos were E. Avery, Brunswick, celebrated their 50th cently returned from a week end of fishing rendered by "Deacon" Hamilton and a talk at Rangeley Lakes. on the welfare of the organization bv Harrison Elliott, clerk, Freight Claims Baggagemaster Robert Cram. Now do not and Mrs. Elliott are fishing enthusiasts at forget, if you have twenty years' service in Sabbathday Lake most every week end. any department of the Railroad, you mav join the Maine Association of Railroad Vet• erans, girls, as well as the boys. GRADUATING from West- brook Junior College this General Foreman Joseph Meehan, at Port• month is Lois Ann Plum- land Union Station, was an end man of the mer, granddaughter of the Holy Name Minstrel held April 19 and 20 late Allie Plummer, former at the Cathedral Guild Hall, also Joseph Meehan 3rd gave an accordion solo. engineer on the Eastern Di• vision and niece of Mary J. Sympathy is extended to Trainman D. A. Burdwood on the death of his mother. Plummer of the Engineer• By JOHN J. KEATING ing Department Trainman Rodney McLearn, the Mrs. and Bernard Larsen, son of George and. Mrs. the baby, made a visit to relatives at Little Larsen was on furlough from Camp Jack• Falls, N. Y. AT MECHANIC FALLS in the summer of 1910 are, son, S. C, where he is stationed in the Sympathy is extended to the relatives of left to right. Retired Conductor Archie Butler, Retired United States Army. Yard Conductor Royal Mclntyre who died Conductor Dick Moreshead and Eddie Fournier

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THE 1951 ANNUAL WHING DING of the Railroad Supervisors Club at Waterville last month was a smashing success as testified by attendance and enthusiasm. (1) Head table group. Front row, left to right, Karl Lamont, Wilbur Lunt, Harold Hook, J. L. Moriarty. Standing, Lawrence Sparrow, I. A. Furrow, W. A. Russell, R. 0. Mc- Garry, C. H. Leard. (2) Charles Rozelle, "The Mad Musician" entertains with a soprano sax concealed""in that umbrella. (3) Tops In Taps offered some fast stepping for the boys. (4) One of four table groups among the more than 150 attending. (5) Intricate acrobatics brought applause from the assembly^

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