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Directors and officers ilepoSfs inspect the railroad HIRTEEN Western Pacific directors While in Salt Lake City, Western Volume XV ii, No.3 MAY. JU NE, 1965 *Milepost No . 163 T (including three officers) and 14 Pacific's directors and officers had an other officers left Oakland on May 11 orportunity to tour the W P-D&RGW by special train for an informative, rail facilities and areas of industrial Public Relations Department closeup look at the railroad under development in the Salt Lake City their direction. After arrival in Salt region by Western P acific and other WESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD Lake City the following morning, th e SACRAMENTO NORTHERN RY. rail lines serving the area. TIDEWATER SOUTHERN RY. ... directors held their regular monthly meeting aboard the train at Union 526 Mission Street . ~ , ' San Francisco. Calif. 94105 ~ Depot. Later, the entire rarty joined . , ~ ; -' . COVER PICTURE Lee " Flash" She rwood. Editor with directors and officers of the D &R GW, SP, and UP, to attend Utah The "Directors' Srecial" made a stop Railroad Day, a meeting called by at Milerost 75.6 to rick ur Director Utah's Governor Calvin L. Rampton. Lindsey W. Coch ran, president of The "Directors' Special" gave the Cochran Co., I nc., Tracy, packers, party an opportunity to observe many shippers and distributors of fresh veg *Milepost No . 163: of the industries located along the rail etables. He has been a director of th e A country chu rch about road and tour certain on-line rrop railroad since 1953. midway between Sacramento erty. Stops were also made in the and Marysville. Much to Director Cochran's surprise, Feather River Canyon to view areas he was highly elated and honored in damaged by last winter's heavy storms having the former station sign at that and the construction work necessary roint on the railroad changed from MANIFEST to return the line to its former condi Rhodes to Cochran. Page tion. The photo, taken by a staff photog For information, each member of the Directors and Officers Inspect the Railroad .. 3 rapher of the Tracy Press, shows Di group was given a descriptive 12-page You've Got to Watch Your Reputation ...... 4 rector Cochran (right) receiving con pocket - sized booklet which pointed Freight Claim vs. Loss & Damage Prevention...... 5 gratulations from P resident F. B . out the princiral points of interest Well, Anyway ... Railroads Delivered .................. 6 Whitman, as M. M. Christy, executive along the railroad, including the names "North American Adventure" a Rail and Water Tour 7 vice president and general manager, of all industries located on the railroad Appointed to New Positions ........................ 8 smiles his approval. Others in the photo since January 1964. Heads of various Joe Kirch Retires at Kansas City .. 9 are A. W. Carlson, engineer of bridges departments were present to further Boosters on 1st Titan 3-C May Have Been Shipped by WP 10 and structures (placing the new sign) , advise the directors and answer their Blood Donor for 15th Time.. .... .............. ................ 10 questions. F. A. Tegeler, treasurer and assistant Retirements .... 11 vice president-finance (behind Chris Dear Editor: ._... ...... 12 Utah Railroad Day was called by Governor Rampton for the purpose of ty), and at extreme right, Director Milerosts in Gold ....... 14 W. P . Fuller III. Caboosing .. _. 16 obtaining the hell' of the four major MILEPOSTS is grateful to Samuel H . A Short Story 26 rail lines serving Utah in expanding Matthews, co-publisher of the Tmcy In Memoriam ........... 27 the state's industrial possibilities and develoring tourist potential. P1'ess, for making this picture available. Railroad Lines ......... ................ .Back Cover MAY·JUNE, 1965 3 2 ~ 7 MI LEPOSTS Freight Claim vs. Loss & Damage Prevention By W. C. Em erson Loss and Damage Prevention Officer HESE two subjects are discussed tions can and will reduce the need for T daily. Yet, only a few people ever a freight claim settlement. This re You've got to 'watch study the problems encountered. quires close cooperation among all the In order to avoid the problems of personnel working in this field. y our reputation .. a claim, the first thing to consider is A recent incident occurred at West how best can it be prevented. To ac ern Pacific when our sales department complish this we must establish a line brought us a shipper problem wherein of communication. When our customer some very expensive test material was Yon know how people talk? has a transportation need, he has an to be transported from an eastern ori immediate need for the efforts of the One misstep and they're all gin via our piggyback service to Cali Loss and Damage Prevention Depart fornia. The first move was to see a huzzing . What I'm ref erring ment of his serving carrier. How will sample of the product, study and take he seek out this service; by communi measurements, and then plan a load to, of c ourse, i s handling cating with the office direct, or through ing method and design the type and his sales and service representative? kind of bracing. To complete the cycle, f re ight shipments. You dam By working out various loading pat a line of communication was estab terns and size and type of containers, age one or two, and the word lished with actual origin carrier and we can and will reduce the hazards of the manufacturing engineer represent get s ar o und. P retty s oon, the various modes of transportation ing the builder of the material. Our the product may encounter from origin suggestions were passed on and when there's less husiness coming until it reaches its final destination. This may be half- way around the the movement of 15 trailer loads was your way. And that's had. world or further. delivered, our claim experience was Freight loss and damage prevention held to the bare minimum. Similar So won't you please handle officers depend on communication to material routed adversely has an esti establish the efficiency of their plan mated claim experience of a quarter every shipment with utmost ning, and through this close coopera of a million dollars. tion they can better service their Loss and damage prevention-plus care? Then all shippers will customers. Supervised loading and communication - REDUCES freight supervised reporting of arrival condi- continue to think well of you claims. -and so will I, your Miss Care Chamber of Commerce Transportation Club ful Handling. elects Carl Mangum elects Ken Cochran Carl W. Mangum, WP's district sales Ken E. Cochran, WP's district sales manager at Oakland, Calif., was elected manager at Portland, Ore, was elected a director of the Oakland Chamber of vice president of the Vancouver Commerce for a three-year term. Carl (Wash.) Transportation Club. Ken has been with WP since September 1, has been with WP since June, 1949 1925, and district sales manager at and district sales manager since Sep Oakland since January·l, 1939. tember 1, 1963. 4 MIL [ POSTS MAY.JUNE, 1965 5 Well, anyway .. tons, the added weight of a derrick or Well, anyway ... (Continued from Page 6) crane on the pier to lift the items to a WP flatcar could have caused a haz railroads delivered repairs. When the customer learned ard. After several discussions between that the generator was water damaged transportation engineers of Todd Ship HE first part of this story comes he refused acceptance. As a result an yards, GE and WP, it was decided T from Jack B. Gore, San Francisco insurance company stepped in and the that the only way the machinery could sales representative, from information machinery was returned from P earl begin its cross country trip to Mis furnished by General Electric's engi Harbor to the Todd Shipyard in Ala souri was to first lift it from the pier neering department. meda for safe keeping. End of Part 1. to a floating derrick-equipped barge. About a year and one-half later the Back in November 1963, GE's Lynn, This was done and the load crossed St. Joseph Light & Power Company, Mass., plant manufactured a 40- ton Oakland estuary to Encinal Terminal's steam turbine and 83-ton generator St. Joseph, Mo., learned of the ma chinery and a purchase was made. 9th Avenue pier, Oakland. After two for a consignee in Okinawa. It was days of proper blocking and bracing by shipped to the West Coast by rail. So Now, the second part of the story from Oakland Sales Representative Horace Todd Shipyar d personnel under the far, so good. En route across the Pa expert supervision of WP's Car In cific, however, the vessel encountered Lohmeyer. spector Jim Vicari, the 123-ton load storms and heavy seas. The generator Since the 16' -long, 13' - high, and left on flatcar WP-2154 for St. Joseph, broke loose from its lashings in the 10'6" -wide turbine and the 13'6" - long, hold, damaged the vessel to the extent 11' -high, and 10'6" -wide generator Missouri. that the hold was flooded, and the ves comprised a total weight of some 123 End of story. sel put back to Midway Island for temporary repairs. The vessel then proceeded to P earl Harbor for further (Continued on Page 7) "North American Adventure" Photos left, from top: Turbine is lowered to barge deck for trip across Oakland Estuary from ERE'S a golden opportunity to behind steam on the quaint 23-mile Todd Shipyards, Alameda, to Encinal Terminal, H criss- cross the United States by Oakland. Note generator in background on deck.