SACRAMENTO NORTHERN'S 50th ANNIVERSARY Vol. VII , No.3
Clepartment of Public Relations WESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD SACRAMENTO NORTHERN RAILWAY TIDEWATER SOUTHERN RAILWAY 52b Mission Street, San Francisco 5 Lee "Flash" Sherwood, Editor Arthur Lloyd, Jr., Associate Editor Member A:merican Railway lJlagazine Editors) AS80oiu/1on International Oouncil 0/ Industr'ial Edit01"S Northern Oalifornia Industrial Editors' Association
* Milepost No. 75: Passing th rough some of California's great produco regions. Nearby is Cochran Co., Inc ., vegetable packers. President Lindsey W. Cochran is one of W p iS directors. IFTY years ago this month at Oro on August 17, 1889, and crossed the F ville, Henry A. Butters gave the Feather River between those two cities signal to throw aside the first via an old covered bridge. However, the COVER CONTENTS shovelful of earth to begin construc rightful birthplace of the Sacramento tion of a new electric interurban line to North ern can be said to be Chico. Woodland station as it looked soon after com PAGE pletion of the Sacramento & Woodland Railroad. Chico. The Northern Electric, as it was It was the Diamond Match Company's Happy Birthday, II 'I"arn ento Service began July 4, 1912, on this separate com .. to be named, was to become the long Chico Electric Railway, which had pany and branch line of the Northern Electric. Northern 3 est third- rail interurban line in the been incorporated August 12, 1904, that ' WF,STEfl.N PACIFIC United States and, later, part of the inspired Butters to found the Northern i.:MilepoSls WP Will R rn 'rnb ' I" 19 Sacramento Northern and the Western Electric. The Chico Electric operated Pacific System. on what is now 9th Street and then up A. A. KI"<.11 III Rclil·cs...... 20 Butters had built the first rail line in town via Main Street. It was used pri South Africa in 1892 and ten years later marily to transport Diamond Match Tl"u 'k PI'o bl 111 AllSW 'I" -d ... 22 sold his interests there and promoted Company's employees to and from a railroad in Mexico. It was the profits work. Butters needed these trackage In MC11101"il1111 23 from this Mexican venture which fur rights in order to enter the City of nished the initial capital for the new Chico, and on March 10, 1906, he Mileposts in old ...... 24 Northern Electric. bought 250 acres adjacent to its car Some of the companies wh ich be barns for use as shops and yards. abo sing 26 came a part of the new electric railway It is interesting to note that the Dia dated back much further. The oldest mond Match Company was owned by H:lill"Oad Lin s 36 of these was the Marysville & Yuba the Gould interests, who were then City Street Railroad Company, a pushing construction of the Western mule-drawn operation which began Pacific.
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Covers II wooderl,,1 field An em pire in e xt ~ll t I~N Endowoo will, all th e natural resource, luan requires LOJlQ~, d .. 'C • , R ich 5Oil. perfecl clirnale I Water, T imber. Minerals 1 ;:.,-"'" s-~ V il1 ;oges. towns.eili"" A mule-drawn " horse.. carll soon after completion of the Marysville & Yuba City line. Year, 1889. T he .oad is alto to be built 1------:-::= . ~ To Rffl Btull and Rfflding Colusa. Woodland and fairoah (' MQ ' ~ ' " Plans for a gala celebration of the the Chico-Oroville line, relations be Thus giving ~ r vice to tho ~ e G rowillg c"",le. ~ of acti .. ity formal opening of the Oroville-Chico tween the new Northern Electric and And the country surrounding Ih ~1ll With thc varied productioos line were somewhat dampened by the Western Pacific were often strained O f lalm, mine and limbe. land San Francisco fire and earthquake of and Butters even held up his Marys The bon.d . a .., in denominations April 18, 1906, an event that cast a ville franchise application until he O f $ 100. $500 and $ 1000 shadow over all California electric could ascertain the exact location of T o rull 3 years A t 7
6 MILEPOS TS OC TOBER, 1955 7 This yard af the Mulberry Shops in Chico was a ma:ze of third rail; required cor. in crossing. If there was no business at Pleasant Grove, trains would many times coast under a one-half mile of overhead wire between stretches of third rail, eliminating the raising or lowering of trolleys.
The "Gridley auto bus" met all trains at East Gridley for passengers destined to Gridley. Tres Vias, or IIthree ways," later Oroville Junction, was transfer point to and from Oroville. mento for the opening of the State Fair. Concord, Walnut Creek, and finally through The Sacramento Company (a Just three days later the first train Lafayette in 1912. About a half-dozen new holding company incorporated in was operated over the Northern Elec round trips were made each day over Delaware on February 1, 1927, with tric's branch from Chico to Hamilton the little trolley line, connecting with 10,000 shares of capital stock of no par City. This branch had been built to Santa Fe trains at Bay Point. On some va'ue) acquired control by taking over serve J . G. Hamilton's beet-sugar fac trips, the cars made a side run over a the 40,000 shares of common stock of tory and opening of the branch was branch from Meinert to Walwood. the San Francisco-Sacramento Rail delayed, waiting for pontoons for the By the middle of 1912 construction road Company. It was rumored at that temporary floating bridge over the was under way west of Lafayette. time that Western Pacific would use Sacramento River. Lack of patronage Grading was carried on mainly with Sacramento Northern rails to bring its was to end this short-lived branch in horse-drawn scrapers and wheelbar trains into Oakland, as on March 10, 1913. rows, although steam shovels were 1926, Arthur Curtis J ames announced used where heavy cuts were required. "the recently acquired Sacramento ow that the Northern Electric Meanwhile, under the name Oakland & Short Line, r unning from Oakland to N had completed its main line, it Bay Shore Railroad, rails had been Sacramento, will be made part of the turned its attention to branch laid on Shafter Avenue in Oakland, Western Pacific's main line. It will cost line construction. The Oroville branch from the Key Route tracks on 40th money for rebuilding, but it will had been built before most of the main Street to a point just east of College shorten our main line by 50 miles." line. Two separate companies were Avenue, where trouble with property However, the plans never materialized, formed, the Sacramento and Wood owners delayed operations. Construc probably due to the forthcoming de land, and the Vallejo and Northern, tion continued and on April 3, 1913, pression. which was constructed and operated service began between Oakland and Fortunately, the electric roads had between Vacaville and Suisun-Fair Bay Point with a big celebration at the gone into active freight solicitation and field. This latter line was projected to 40th and Shafter station. had built their lines nearer to steam Vallejo to connect with the Napa Val About this time the road was re road standards than had most inter ley electric line at that point and to organized as the Oakland, Antioch & urbans. Passenger traffic began to fall build north to connect with the Wood Eastern. A train ferry was to be used off during the twenties and early thir land line. Service to Woodland com to cross the river just west of Pittsburg. ties with the increasing competition menced on July 4, 1912. Service to Formerly it had been rumored that the from automobiles, and the San Fran Colusa (built by Northern Electric) line would go to Stockton, but con cisco-Sacramento and the Sacramento began on June 13, 1913. struction was started west from Sac Northern began to depend heavily In later years the complete system ramento using heavy equipment and upon freight revenues from the rich was known and operated as Northern work proceeded rapidly. It was an regions they served. Electric Railway. Disappointing rev nounced that Sacramento was to be the In 1928 plans were under way for a enues led to receivership in 1914. eastern terminus and through service Map by Franklin E. Louie, Draftsman branch line to connect with the Peta Emerging from bankruptcy in 1918, the began on September 3, 1913. About WP Engineering Department luma & Santa Rosa Railroad, but this line became known as the Sacramento 1915 arrangements were made for never materialized. The Holland Northern Railroad and on December through service to Chico in conjunc SACRAMENTO NORTHERN Branch was constructed and opened on 23, 1921, it was purchased by the West tion with the Northern Electric, and RAILWAY June 29, 1929, and the following year ern Pacific. on January 1, 1920, the name of the the gap from Creed to the Vacaville The Sacramento Northern as it appears today. The southern portion of the Sacra Oakland, Antioch & Eastern was Although the 281-mile railroad is a subsidiary line was closed. mento Northern had its beginning in changed to San Francisco-Sacramento of Western Pacific, with connections at Sacra The present Sacramento Northern 1910, when the Oakland and Antioch Railroad. It was more familiarly mento, Marysville and Oroville~ it is by itself a Railway represents the consolidation Class I railroad. Also shown are proposed lines, completed and operated a service be known as the Sacramento Shore Line. branch lines and connections, some of which on January 1, 1929, of the two principal tween Bay Point (now Port Chicago), In August, 1927, the Western Pacific were never completed as originally planned. predecessor companies, the Sacra- 10 MILEPOSTS OCTOBER, 1955 11 Sacramento Union Station was used by trains of the San Francisco-Sacramento, Sacramento North. ern Railroad, and Central California Traction Company. After abandonment of passenger service in 1940 the structure became a s uper market.
Many types of equipment on storage tracks at Sacramento Union Station. About 1936.
Looking northwest from the corner of 40th Street and Opal in 1912, a view of what is now the SN yards at 40th Street and Shafter Avenue, Oakland. Some of the houses still stand. - Vernon J. Sappers collection
An earlyday view of the "M" Street bridge in Sacramento, looking west. Quite a change from the present Capitol Avenue bridge, which was completed in 1938. -""
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Left, top: First train of the Oakland and Antioch between Bay Point and Concord, about 1913. Above: A Santo Fe coach was rented for the day to run between the O&A's only two motor cars on hand The parlor car "Moraga," of the Oakland, An at that time. tioch and Eastern, hod an observation platform on each e nd and was a motorized car. later one platform and the motors were removed and the car became an observation trailer. Full meals l eft, bottom: Th e ferry IIRamon" made many were served in a small dining section. This pic t rips between Mallard and Chipps over Suisun ture is thought to have been a Stockholders' Straits. At one time the gasoline-powered vessel Special, operated just prior to regular service in sported a small restaurant so passengers could 1913. - Vernon J. Sappers collection have a quick snack during the short ten .. minute crossing. 14 MILEPOSTS OCTOBER, 1955 15 'I>
The California-Nevada Ra il road Historical Society operated the last through train from Son Fran cisco to Chico as an excursion on May 25, 1941. Taken in the East Bay Te rm inal on one of the A 70·ton diesel, latest acquisition of the SN. few occasions when the SN had a train on two tracks. Tra in 12, local to Pittsburg, at the right. mento Northern Railroad and the San The management, headed by Presi Francisco-Sacramento Railroad, both dent Harry A. Mitchell, came to the entirely owned by Western Pacific. conclusion that the SN had no option The stock market crash which soon but to get out of the interurban pas followed further reduced passenger senger business, and application to dis First train to cross the rebuilt Arcade trestle. revenues and floods harassed the continue all passenger service east of management as portions of the Colusa the ferry was made early in 1940. On branch and other parts of the line August 26 of that year the last through washed away. The high expense of trains were run to Sacramento. On maintaining the ferTY "Ramon" and the October 31, 1940, the lines north of trestle and fill work in the marsh lands Sacramento saw their last regular pas east of Chipps was a constant drain on senger runs with the exception of the the treasury. Western Pacific consist local Birney streetcar service in Sac ently waived the interest obligation on ramento, Marysville, and Chico. Five the bonds and annually advanced cash daily round trips between San Fran to the electric railway to keep it run cisco and Pittsburg were maintained ning. On January 15, 1939, passenger until J anuary 1,1941, when the service service was extended across the new was cut to four. Shortly thereafter the Bay Bridge to the East Bay Terminal company again made application to the in San Francisco, but the expected rise Railroad Commission, this time to get in business did not materialize except out of the passenger business entirely. for the periods during the Golden Gate The last regular commute train left Exposition in 1939 and 1940 when San Francisco during the afternoon of trains were run in two or three sections June 30, 1941. Thus, in a few short on weekends. It is interesting to note years, the Sacramento Northern, which that this was the only through train had been built primarily to carry pas service which ever existed between sengers, became a freight- only carrier San Francisco and north state points. due to the changing times.
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WP WILL REMEMBER (( When a man d evote8 his life to an i ndustr y , h e has truly paid that ind1!str y the g r eatest compliment." On behalf of all employees of West ern Pacific and its affiliated companies, MILEPOSTS extends sincerest best wishes for future happiness to the fol lowing employees who recently re tired: Milton B. Baye1', dispatcher, Sacra Present management of th e Sacramento Northern Railway is from left: Harry A . Mitchell, trustee mento. and retired president; Rex T. Kearney, president and general manager; Harold J. Mulford, superin .. Frederico Castillo, section laborer, tenden.; Milton F. Ziehn, corporate secretary. Jellico. Sam A. Chadey, track laborer, ODAY'S Sacramento Northern is freight trains between Oakland and Plumas. T a busy Class I railroad. Large Pittsburg over the 4.4 per cent grade John Dean, brakeman, Salt Lake shipments of steel are handled to out of Oakland to the summit at City. Pittsburg and trainloads of perishables Havens. Ultimately, the line will be Charles Herman, laborer, Portola. and other corrunodities are carried entirely dieselized. Ge01'ge S . Kan'as, section laborer, through the upper Sacramento Valley. An order was recently placed for 100 Lago. In 1949, Rex T. Kearney succeeded new 50' 6" double side- door box cars N01·man A. McPherson, inspector M Harry A. Mitchell as president and from Pullman-Standard Car Manufac of W, Stockton. general manager, when the latter be turing Company at a cost of nearly Wallace H . Reese, brakeman, Salt came president of the Western Pacific. $820,000. New diesel facilities are be Lake City. George D. Keyes Mitchell, and Richard E. Guggenhime, ing constructed at West Sacramento Charles A. Robertson, section la are now serving as trustees during the by company forces at an estimated cost He and his wife, Alyce, will visit their borer, Smoke Creek. company's reorganization. Word was of $24,000. Included are a 21-foot in daughter, Mrs. William Thietje, in Frank Romero, section laborer, Elko. received on September 20, 1955, that spection pit; a 20,000-gallon fueling Bermuda next fall. Francis T. Wood, locomotive engi the Sacramento Northern's Plan of station complete with pump and pump neer, Portola. * * * Reorganization was approved by the house; the relocation of two buildings Elmer A. Manier, joint WP, Sacra Interstate Corrunerce Commission, ef to be used as a trainmen's room and mento Northern, and Central Cali fective January 1, 1956. Harold J. Mul diesel engine supply room; and the TWO AGENTS RETIRE fornia Traction Company agent at ford is superintendent of the railroad construction of additional trackage. 1 George D. Keyes retired as freight Sacramento, retired on September 4 and Milton Ziehn is corporate secre Despite its past ups and downs the ) agent at San Jose on July 13 after 45 after 47 years' railroad service, 43 of tary. With the exception of Mitchell, Sacramento Northern has a secure years' Western Pacific service, which which were with WP at Sacramento. who has an office in Western Pacific's future in the freight business, as its began on September 19, 1910. He began his railroad career with general office, all are headquartered slogan - "Through the Sacramento George, with his father C. W . Keyes, the Pennsylvania in 1908 as a teleg at Sacramento. Valley"-proclaims. opened Western Pacific's San Jose rapher and came west in 1910 to work The railroad acquired six 44-ton GE MILEPOSTS extends best wishes on its freight depot in 1920 and became for the Southern Pacific. He was ap diesel-electric locomotives in 1946, and fiftieth birthday! freight agent when his father retired pointed W P agent in 1946. the first 70-ton GE diesel- electric lo MILEPOSTS is indebted to the following for in 1937. He also served as agent at On his retirement, Elmer was pre comotive was delivered on July 23 of certain histori cal information which appea rs on Milpitas since the Ford pJant opened sented with a beautiful gold wrist this year. Electric locomotives are still the preceding pages: Milton Ziehn, Arthur L. early this year. watch, cigarette lighter and holder, used in switching service in the Marys Lloyd, Jr., Dudley Thickens, Addison Laflin, Eldon Lucy, Vernon J. Sappers, John W. Dodge, a nd the George was honored at a party given In a letter to MILEPOSTS, Elmer ville-Yuba City district and on the Bay Area El ectric Ra ilr oad Association. him by fifty WP employees on July 12. wrote: "I would like to express my 18 MIL E PO STS OCTOBER, 1955 19 A. A. I{ramm Retires With more years of service than any thereafter he was hired out by the WP railroader now employed by Western at a time when rails were being laid Pacific, August A. Kramm closed out between Stockton and Mokelumne an engineering career on July 31 that River. But, again , his career was in likely will be unequalled. terrupted as the bridge crossing that August 20, 1908, is the date in WP r iver had not been completed and rail records when Gus first hired out as a laying was held up for some time. stakeman. He did have prior railroad Gus returned to school at Stockton, experience during 1907 when the Cen in which city his name was entered tral California Traction Company was in the birth records on J une 26, 1889. bUilding between Stockton and Lodi, According to his mother, it was rain but his name was deleted from the ing "cats and dogs" that day, which payroll after a month in service be bothered Gus that day little more than cause of reduction in forces. Shortly it did in later years when he lugged on foot heavy engineering instruments Elmer A. Manier . .. over practically every mile of the rail appreciation for the many courtesies road's main line and most of its At the retirement dinner H. C. Munson reminded Gus of one of the many humorous incidents which extended me by the officials and per branches at one time or another. occurred, during his long coreer. Enioying the story with Gus are John Miller, office engineer, who served as program chairman, and Chief Engineer Frank R. Woolford, who presented Gus' gift. sonnel as they have been always more When itchy feet took him back to than friendly and helpful. After nearly the railroad in 1908 he first worked on in staking out the Stockton passenger of construction. He recalls that the 40 years at the freight office, it has be the section of line between what is now depot. This was more than a year be Nevada -California - Oregon narrow come almost like a home to me and it Counsman station and Marysville, and fore the last spike was driven on Span gauge was in operation between the is with deep regret that I leave. May ish Creek Bridge at Keddie, and nearly rails of the new standard gauge road I wish Western P acific, MILE POSTS and to the day two years before the first bed, and it was not until 1918 that the th e entire personnel, the greatest pos passenger train came to a halt at Oak narrow-gauge rails were removed. sible success." land on August 22, 1910. Gus was also in charge when WP He was then transferred to Niles located its Calpine Branch in 1920. where a ballast pit was in operation The many incidents which occurred and where Tunnel No. 2 was lined with during his long career would probably concrete during 1909. During the fill a book, some thrilling, some serious latter part of that year, Gus was told and some funny, like the one that hap to report to T. L. Phillips, assistant pened while moving camp from a spot engineer, whose San Francisco office near Riego Station on the Northern was then located at 505 Connecticut Electric (now SN) to a site near Bear Street, a small house directly over River. Tunnel "A," a part of right- of-way "We knocked down camp early one purchase. At that time WP's 25th morning and loaded tents and equip Street slip had just been completed and ment on a header wagon hired from a the outgoing freight house was under local farmer. I had been delegated to construction. ,Gus was made time accompany the driver to direct him to keeper while the first rails were being the designated camp site," Gus recalls. Taken in 1909 or 1910 in front of Assistant En laid in San Francisco. "When we neared the town of Gougeye gineer T. l . Phillips' office at 50S Connecticut When grading on the Reno Branch (now Pleasant Grove) the wagon axle Street, San Francisco . . That's Gus on the right. began in J une, 1917, Gus was in charge snapped. Many hours later a black- 20 M IL E PO S T S OCT OB E R , 1955 21 Truck Problem Answered ~~ -!:"",- From the July 29 editorial page of the usual State and local taxes on the ~~J(. In Memoriam ;.~ the Richmond News Leader, Rich property they used. Then they would mond, Virginia, comes this suggestion: not have to depend on the public cof ~~~i;;'.;~-i; &",~",... .;,;.-",,-"_ "'I_~;':'__ .- .~;;_.~_ .c::':.,- __ ~_~z~~~~!:<' "We have our own little private en fers to keep them moving along, and terprise solution to the highway nobody on Chamberlayne Avenue troubles. We should like to see all the would have any parking troubles. If truckers get together and raise the any non-trucking members of the pub Ralph Patterson. car inspector, July money to build and maintain their own lic then wanted to use the truck high On behalf of all employees of West highways. These highways - maybe way, the truckers could sell tickets for ern Pacific and its affiliated companies, 26. George H. Pect1'ce, retired conductor, they could be truck lanes along exist the same, one way and round trip. MILEPOSTS extends sil'lcerest sympathy ing highways-would be open to the "But of course all that would be in to the loved ones of the following, May 19. Cha1'!es O. Shepardson, retired chief use of trucks alone. They could install humane, improper, rank discrimin:a whose death h as been reported: their own safety devices, their own tion, anarchy, reaction, and so forth. John B erg, B&B carpenter, J anuary clerk, June 23. Victor B. TOVU1' , hborer, July 17. way stations, set their own speed limits It would be treating the trucking in 8. B ernard J . T1'endle, Sacramento and weight regulations, and be be dustry just like the railroad industry, BY1'on D. Bohn, rate and division Northern bridge tender, August 6. holden to nobody. Of course they'd pay and that wouldn't be fair at all." clerk, August 12. James O. Van Benthusen, assistant ETnest R. Coblyn, Central California signal supervisor, August 28. carelessly fell into the dough. We had Traction Company brakeman, August A. A. Kramm . .. Loss White, B&B carpenter, April3~. smith repaired the damage but it was no evidence of the contents in our en 16. dark by the time we reached our desti tree the night before." 01'val F. Dack, locomotive engineer, nation. We were met by a hungry and Gus' last assignment as senior as June 20. PASSES EXTENDED sistant engineer-projects took place at disgruntled gang, and a jabbering Chi AlbeTt A. DeLong, Sacramento According to notice from H . C. Mun Oroville where he worked for many nese cook who had gone ahead, and Northern conductor, August 7. son, vice president and general man months with engineers from the State who should have had the dinner ready FLen F!etcheT, B&B shift boss, Au ager, all Western Pacific 1954-1955 of California's department of water re with equipment we had on the wagon gust 25. meritorious annual passes expiring before the men arrived in camp. We sources in connection with the pro Hugh J. Ga1'dner, machinist, May 24. December 31, 1955, will be honored up got the cook started as soon as possible posed Oroville dam. Joseph C. Gargan, retired industry to and including December 31, 1956. and the men quieted down. In those Nearly two hundred of Gus' hun clerk, June 14. days, most Chinese cooks let some of dreds of WP friends turned out to John P . Gibbons, retired brakeman, their supplies run down before a move, honor him at a dinner in San Francisco May 27. FOl' Philatelists so in this instance there was no bread on August 26, at which time he was Charles C. HaTper, assistant file Four "Railroad Days" will be marked on hand. He immediately began to mix presented with a set of diamond clerk, June 10. at Charleston, West Virginia, by the a batch aided by the light of a hay studded gold cuff links. burner lantern set close by. If you know Gus, you would under Joseph F . J embek, retired coach Casey Jones Railroad Unit of the American Topical Association. "Supper was finally placed on the stand him when he told his audience: carpenter, August 26. poorly lighted mess table and the hot "When I sawall these wonderful George Long, telegrapher, August Cacheted envelopes will be issued, bread was the hit of the day. At break people I thought the party was for sev 24. October 13 for the B&O; October 14 for the C&O; October 15 for the NYC; fast the next morning, however, when eral, not just for me. I will always FTed G. Loucks, retired locomotive and October 16 for the Virginian. the bread was placed before us, it went remember my days on the WP and the engineer, June 2. Covers, costing 25 cents each , should begging. It had the appearance of wonderful people who make it a great Edward A. McCaTthy, retired as raisin bread but the "raisins" were railroad. I would like to thank each sistant traffic manager, August 29. b e ordered from C. J. Keenan, secre tary of the unit, 6354 N. E. Cleveland beetles, moths and various other in and everyone who made this dinner John Mendoza, laborer, July 16. sects which had been attracted to the possible and for the wonderful gift. It Antonio C. Patrisio, retired barge Avenue, Portland 11, Oregon. light of the hayburner lantern and will never be forgotten." man, June 6. -From Railway Age
22 MILEPOSTS OCTOBER, 1955 23 IS-YEAR PINS Vincent Dycus . ______Clerk __ ...... __ ...Western Division Edward H. Field __ ...... _. .. Store Helper.. ...store Dept . James T . Gamble ...... Conductor...... Eastern Division Harry E. Hurst...... _...... Locomotive Engineer ...... ___ Eastern Division )IILEPOSTS IN GOLD Rudolph L. M uckleroy __ ...... W aiter ...... _...... _.. Dining Car Dept. Herman G. Rohdenburg ...... Water Serv:ce Maintainer...... Western Division Carl Sandstrom . .... Section Foreman ...... Western Division ...... Eastern Division Ed~ar R . Sullivan ... _ ..... __ ...... Conductor ...... Ralph Tiffany ___ _ ...... Switchman .. .. Western Division MILEPOSTS congratulates the following employees who will receive Service IO-YEAR PINS Pin Awards during the month of October, 1955: Eric E Austin ..... Carman...... ___ .. Mechanical Dept. Jesse J'- Ba l dridg~ :: ...... __ ...... Carman._...... ~::. : ~:~g:~~~:} g:~ i: 45-YEAR PINS Joseph A. Guffra ...... __ ...... __ .Locomotive Engineer .. ~~i!~e :.rC~~ld ...... :::::::::::: :: ~~:~~n?~~~.~.~-~ ::: .... -.- . .. .. Eastern Division ______Clerk ______... Western Division J ahn W . Peters .. -...... We stern Division Alton E . Dabbs...... gtock Record Clerk.. ... __.. Store Dept. . John W. Roberts .. .. __ ... Locomotive Engineer ...... Western Division Laurence A. Gardner...... Brakeman.. --- _.Eastern D ivislOn Laurie W. Wh:ttakcL...... Switchman ...... __ .. Western Division Alberta J ones ...... Coach Cleaner...... ___ .... Mechanical Dept. Charles S. K e~·~·~· d~ ::::::...... \t13.chinist. . . " :' ~~~~:rn~c~li";:~~~ 40-YEAR PIN ...... _...... Dining Car Dept. .. ____ ...... Locomotive Engineer .. :l~~~sL~~~nride ::: :: ~ha:l;c~a~~~t·er .... Francis T. Wood ...... We stern Division Leslie D. McClintock...... CTC Maintain("r...... Signal Dept. 35-YEAR PINS Ella S McDonald ...... Laborer...... __...... _. .... Mechanical Dept. Roger J. Collins ... _ ...... _. Locomotive Engineer...... We stern Division Jesse R. Moss...... Locomotive Fireman .. __ ...... -.. -. -.~. ~:~~~~~ g~~ i~~~~ Stephen J. Fahey ...... Locomotive Engineer...... Eastern Division ~=n~~l~~~ohay :::...... ::: : ~!~~f~;.;. Labore:,...... Eastern Division Glen B. Gorham ...... __ ...... Locomotive Engineer.. . .. Eastern Division Earl Perkins ...... _...... Carman.. . .. _.. . Mechan!cal gept. C. B. Rushmer .. _ ...... Design Engineer...... 8an Francisco William S. Quarrey...... Carman...... _... Mechamca ept. john Smith ...... Locomotive Engineer...... Eastern Division Cecil G. Trumbo.. ._...... Locomotive Engineer...... Eastern Division Richard Randall ...... Chair Car Porter.. ... : ... :: : : : : ~i:c\~;nfc~; ~:~~ : William H . Williams...... Locomotive Engineer ...... We stern Division ¥r~wS~s i ;~S ~~~.~.~.r ...... :·:::::::::::::::::::: : ~~~~\~C~~lk~~rker ...... Dining Car Dept. Tohn Silverberg _...... Chair Car Porter...... __ .. . Dining Car Dept. 30-YEAR PINS Raymond G. Sp~t-;";o ...... Carman Helper ... "" ...... : .....-.- : .. :... ~:~~:~~~: ~ g:~i: Charles S. Decker...... Locomotive Fireman ...... Western Division Noland I. Stanton...... Machinist...... Dining Car Dept . Sam Deitz ...... B&B Carpenter ...... Western Division Thomas F . Griffiths...... L ocomotive Engineer...... Eastern Division Henry Taylor ...... :::::::::::::::::::::::::::.:::: : :: : ~~:;~ ~:;e ~%i~·i·si·~;;- · c·i~~k ~~~:·· ...... San Francisco Gunnar Johnson ...... Marine Deckhand ...... W estern Division Brakeman...... -. -.... james L. Lee...... Stock Control Clerk ...... Store Dept. ~:ideTA~ T~ipp ~...... ~~~~e:C~/~s~~~ juan G. Pedroza...... Laborer...... Eastern Division HarveySidney MWalton. Willi ams. .... _ . .. .. __ :: ·_ BChraakiremC~~ .~~~~~~.... __ ...... ____ ...... We S stern D Division james L. Wilkinson ...... Conductor ...... We stern Division Lena C. Willis...... Personnel Record-Payroll Clerk.. ":::::::::: : vJ~~~ernet5ivision Herbert A . Wornick...... Brakeman ...... 25-YEAR PINS john R. Bancroft...... Locomotive Engineer...... Western Division f~:~e~~ ~~l~;~~ford .. ..···· .. ·:: · :::: tt~cc;:~:i~·~ · Enginee; :: ...... · .... ··· .... ::::::::::: : :::::::: ~~~~:~ cDli;?s~~~ Dora Buckingham, purchasing department fi le and moil clerk, receives he r 10-year pin from ~ur Vernon A. Foster ...... Locomotive Engineer...... Western Division chasing Agent Joseph C. Marchand as other members of the department watch the presentation. Timothy Hanlon . . ... _._._ .... Locomotive Engineer...... Western Division Walter A . Martin.. __ . ___ ...... Locomotive Engineer ___ ...... _...... Eastern Division George R. Moody...... Locomotive Engineer...... _...... Western Division James F. Murray...... Conductor...... _ ...... Western Division Norman T. Moulton ...... Locomotive Engineer...... Western Division t~~~;~n B~ · lri~:.~~~~~ · .... ······· .... · .. ··· .. · .. ·· .... :::::: ~~~d~~t~;e Engineer.. _...... ::::: : :::::::::::::: ~~~~~~n ~~~,~i~~n Chauncey N. Snyder... "" _ .... Locomotive Engineer...... Western Division g:~~g?T ~W~~tlOCk ...... · ...... ::::::: t~~~~~~:~: ~~:~~::~ ...... :::. ;Z:~ ~:~~ g~~~~~~~ George F. Williams.. ...Locomotive Engineer...... __ ...... Wester n Division Floyd E . Wilson ...... Locomotive Engineer.. .. _ ...... Western Divis:on 20-YEAR PINS Sam M. Baker...... Section Laborer ...... Western Division Ralph E. Burke. _____ . ____ ...... ___ ..... _.... ConductoL .. __ ...... __ _.Western Division W ~ lliam R. Dubois ...... __ ...... Locomotive Engineer ...... Western Division Edwin H. Gage...... __ ...... _...... Conductor ...... Western Division Garrett A. Galbraith...... _...... Conductor ...... Western Division Harold A. Holsclaw...... Conductor...... Western Division Willard L. LeBeou£...... Conductor...... Western Division Artellio Lipparelli ...... Flagman ...... Western Division William H. Lucas ...... Conductor...... ______Eastern Division William E. Roth...... Clerk .. __ ..... Western Division Robert L. SmalL ...... Locomotive Engineer...... Western Division Lloyd B. Spencer...... Conductor.. Richard V . Stanberry ...... Conductor.. ::::.:::::::::::: :: :::: ~:!~:~~ g~~~!:~~ Charles Woods ...... Tavern Car Attendant...... Dining Car Dept. Harold E. Young...... Conductor...... Western Division 24 MILEPOSTS helped out for a few weeks recently EMIL STADEM, WP Hotel porter, on vacation relief, and while here we spent his vacation visiting relatives in helped Margaret celebrate her birth Walnut Creek, California. day. MRS. MARY NAYLOR, retired teleg rapher, accompanied by her grand eaboosing WENDOVER daughters, Carolee Naylor, daughter Esther Witt of Agent and Mrs. JOHN W. NAYLOR of Open house was held at the home of Bl.:rmester, and Shirley Ann Lee, DAN DUTKIEWICS, statistician, suc We'll tell you more about the an Water Service Ma;ntainer and Mrs. daughter of Switchman and Mrs. DAN ceeds DON BANKS as MILEPOSTS' cor nual picnic in the next issue, it being V ARIAN ANDERSON in honor of Mrs. W. LSE, spent a week's vacation having respondent for the Chicago office. We held this year at Bemis Woods on Sep Anderson's mother, Mrs. Emma John a wonderful sight-seeing time in San welcome Dan to the staff and extend tember 17. Everyone looks forward to son, of Grantsville, who celebrated her Francisco and Oakland. our appreciation to Don for his past a good time at our picnics, and they rOth birthday. Telegrapher ANNA BELLE ALBRECHT wonderful cooperation. will have plenty of opportunity to Cashier and Mrs. PRESTON A. NU3- made a business trip to Reno and then reminisce the usual "gags" which an EER and family spent their vacation spent the rest of her vacation remodel CHICAGO nually take place. visiting relatives and friends in Idaho. ing her home. ROBERI' B. NAYLOR, son of Chief Dis Dan Dutkiewics patcher GEORGE W. NAYLOR, took over Retired Boilermaker and Mrs. JAMES As this is being written, we are plan SACRAMENTO STORE A. MONAHAN entertained Mrs. Mona Preston's duties for two weeks. Irene Burton ning a joint farewell party for JIM Chief Dispatcher and Mrs. GEORGE han's sister and family, the Rev. and BAKER, chief clerk, and FREDDIE ROB Welcome to MILLARD C. ROGERS, who W. NAYLOR were hosts to their niece Mrs. Charles Wright, of Ottawa, Kan BINS, traffic representative. Jim has recently joined the ranks of the store Shirley Ann Lee, daughter of Switch sas. Other guests were Machinist JOHN NELSON of Oroville and former Boiler been promoted to chief, sales and serv department. man and Mrs. DAN W. LEE. ice bureau, and begins his new as AL MADAN and ED HAWKINS, and Former telegrapher, CLARENCE O. maker and Mrs. JAMES CUPID, of Den ver. signment at San Francisco on Septem their wives, went to San Francisco re LOREN Z, of Gary, Indiana, called on ber 1. Fred begins a new career as cently to attend the performance of friends in Wendover for a day. "C. 0 ." Recent callers at the yard were salesman for the Neilsen Chevrolet "Pajama Game," and enjoyed it very is now working the swing shift as Conductor and Mrs. CHARLES W. OWEN, Company in Harvey, Illinois, his home much. AI's daughter, Claral, had the telegrapher for the EJ&E. Mrs. Lorenz and Mrs. Fern Parker and two sons, town. Already "on the ball," Fred misfortune of having to undergo a and daughter, Pat, remained at home wife and family of Conductor JOSEPH claims he'll give you the best deal in tonsillectomy-and, worst of aU, dur for this trip. C. PARKER, and Joe's cousin, Arlene town' We'll all miss these fellows and ing vacation! Morgan. Glad to have seen all of you wish them every success in their new ERIC BORG relieved J . L. MILLER, folks and hope you will come again. positions. storekeeper, while Jack was away All is quiet again at Wendover Air We can boast of two n ew additions from Portola on vacation. Force Base with the completion of the to our office. SHIRLEY MAE MICHALEK. JASPER GUARENO, JR., and his family bombing and gunnery meet partici who hails from Lemont, Illinois, is re spent part of their vacation in Los An pated in by the F-100A Super Sabre, placing BETTY BRAZEAU as mail and geles and while there visited Disney F-86H, fifth model of the Sabre Jets, file clerk. Betty expects the stork soon land. F -84F Thunderstreak, and the F -86F and says she's hoping it will be a girl. AGNES ASH returned from h er vaca Sabre Jets. Even though the noise was PHILLIP E. PUTIGNANO, who hails from tion, and reports having a wonderful terrific it wa::; thrilling to watch their Chi-town's west side, replaces DON time. Another vacationer just returned BANKS as secretary to Art Lund. is BRUCE STILLWELL. speed in take-off and in flight. DON BANKS stepped up· the ladder JAMES DYCHOFF left our employ to Switchman and Mrs. DAN W. LEE are from secretary to traffic representative, accept a position as freight rate clerk the proud owners of a new Shult replacing JIM RICHARDS. Congratula with the Interline Motor Company. trailer. They are happily ensconced in tions, Don. MARGARET WEST.LAKE and BILL CHASE U A little behind schedule, aren't you, Cosey?1I the same and are very much at home. 26 MILEPOSTS OCTO BER, 1955 27 STOCKTON NEW YORK CITY Elaine Obenshain Alan Hudson Old Virginia & Truckee engine No. By the time this is read we expect 12 and V&T coach No. 16, stored at ART POTVIN and his family will have Stockton roundhouse for the Railway joined the throngs of folks who have Locomotive & Historical Society, were moved to Suburbia in the last decade. spotted at an appropriate site on the Art has located in a spot called Wap Stockton Terminal & Eastern in Au pingers Falls, New York, but the gust for photos by Life photographer nearby metropolis of more familiar Gjon Mili, for use in Life's "American ring is Poughkeepsie. Heritage" series. It is scheduled for the Welcome to WP J;ifew York n ew Thanksgiving issue. Engine and coach comer GEORGE BRUCE, steno- clerk. were r ecently returned to the WP from George hails from Renton, Washing Sacl'amento where they were used in ton. Time was when we could fi eld a conjunction with SP's centennial. team of local New Yorkers here at th~ office, but no longer. Of our clerical Our sympathy to Mrs. Hanway, wife Barbara Lee Michelson, daughter of Terminal of Brakeman E. L. HANWAY, who was Trainmaster and Mrs . L. D. Mich elson, was re lief staff of five, there being one vacancy PBX ope rator while W. R. Western and Gladys as of this writing, there is but one who called to Nebraska by the death of h er Evans w ere on vacation. A graduate of Stockton let out his first yell within the confines twin sister; and to Clerk W. K . DOWN Colieg e, she enters Sacramento State this fall. of the Five Boroughs. He happens to ARD on the death of his father at Monon, be ACE MORACE, cruef clerk. Our other Indiana. vacation trout fisrung around Marklee stalwarts are WALT RIGDON, from Melba Lorraine Smith, daughter of ville and reports it was wonderfuL Gadsden, Alabama; FRANK CROSS from SALT LAKE CITY Mrs. Lawrence A. Smith of Stockton, Conductor G. T . CLARK and family Dallas, Texas ; and the aforementioned J. B. Price and William Edward DuBois, son of fished for salmon around Ft. Bragg, lad from Renton, Washington. and while the catches were all good, Those last- minute vacations-so the Engineer and Mrs. W. R. DuBOIS, were To show to what lengths we will go h e hooked one weighing 42% pounds. children can go along before school be man-ied in Central Methodist Church, for our visiting dignitaries, after ALFRED C. PETTY, a spry 77, and for gins-were enjoyed by the following: Sunday, July 31. The newlyweds Gotham's most scorching summer, 29 years a WP t elegrapher, was Conductor and Mrs. DEWARD C. honeymooned in Monterey, Carmel with 19 days over 90 degrees Fahren awarded the Army's 2nd ranking dec ANDERSON to San Francisco for a week and Santa Barbara and will make their heit, we ordered a brace of days of San oration 56 years after he distinguished and returning to Salt Lake City to take home in Sacramento until Bill receives Francisco weather and were obliged himself in one of the nation's most first prize in a contest for flower ar his Air F orce discharge. temperature range 70-80 degrees famous charges for leading American rangements. upon learning of BERT STRATTON'S two Among those who enjoyed vacations soldiers up San Juan Hill in Cuba dur Engineer and Mrs. JOHN J . BROWN day visit beginning August 28. the past month were Clerks MIRIAM ing the Spanish-American War. He and family to Denver, then to San GRUDE, visiting relatives and friends in received a Certificate of Merit signed Unfortunately, and through no one's Francisco. Chicago; BERNICE PARK and spouse by President William McKinley two fault, the timing of these articles leaves Engineer and Mrs. WILLIAM W. visiting relatives in Salt Lake City; years after the close of hostilities, but something to b e desired. However, the WOODALL, accompanied by Mrs. Wood W. R. WESTERN and wife to Salt Lake the battle records were never com writer will stick out his long neck, but all's brother, vacationed in Montana, City and Santa Cruz; ROUNDHOUSE pletely closed and were reviewed when good! With the Yankees tied with making a tour of National Parks. CLERK WILLIS and Trainmaster's Clerk Petty supplied details. The review by Cleveland one-half game b ehind first Conductor and Mrs. WILLIAM T. ELAINE OBENSHAIN to Lassen Volcanic the Army's adjutant general's office place Chicago on September 1, and 4% PATTERSON and family made a return National Park and Motmtain City, resulted in the DSC award. He at games ahead of Boston, we go on rec trip to the Pacific Nor thwest for some Nevada; Fireman G. J . TROW and tended the 65th reunion of the Army ord as saying Yankees over Brooklyn, fine salmon fishing. family to Lake Tahoe. and Navy Legion of Valor in Boston 4 games to 2. (Kindly omit flowers and After purchasing a new Pontiac, Clerk E. S. MOYES spent part of his during August. reminders of folly, if fool I was!) Conductor and Mrs. CHARLES W. OWEN
28 MILEPOSTS OCTOBER, 1955 29 decided to vacation at Sun Valley, family. Although the weather was viewed this program have found it solace from their many, many friends. Idaho. "Chick" got back his girlish slightly on the chilly side they enjoyed most enjoyable in portraying the gay Our sincerest sympathy, also, to figure. a wonderful time on the beach. The dances and costumes of Old Mexico. Train Desk Clerk CY BATES and family While on vacation Conductor and vacation was marred, however, when We wish him every success and full co who lost their baby son at birth. Mrs. JAMES T. GAMBLE celebrated their the girls came down with measles. operation which is necessary for the Engineer and Mrs. J. B. RADCLIFFE 25th wedding anniversary. They had Road Foreman of Engines and Mrs. complete success of his new venture. have moved to our Housing Project as their guests for the occasion friends MAURICE HAMMOND report fishing was E. E. GLEASON dropped in to talk from Stockton. from Oregon. at its best in the Uintahs. over old times with his former associ JOHN MOORE, JR., spent leave at home Engineer and Mrs. DONALD T. WOODS Conductor and Mrs. ALFRED G. ates in the mechanical department. here following Navy "boot training" at accompanied by their son and a num WOODWARD and family toured Yellow There was no need to inquire about San Diego. He left on the Zephyr for ber of friends went to the blue Pacific stone Park and then went to Soda his health as at a glance it was quite further training at Great Lakes Naval to enjoy salmon fishing. Springs, Idaho, to visit with relatives obvious that no improvement could be Training Station. Conductor and Mrs. STANLEY C. and friends. They were also guests at made. Operator TOM BARRY and his family GUDMUNDSON and family went to the several family reunions. R. L. KIMBALL, chief timekeeper, is have moved to Oroville. D. E. FLEET high Uintahs for some fishing. Under Conductor and Mrs. IRVIN L. KIL once again punching the clock at home WOOD is the new relief operator here. stand they encountered a good deal of GORE spent some time in San Francisco as his wife has returned from a two WALT HALLSTEAD, night train caller, rain. Sorry a Geiger counter won't and then went on into Old Mexico. week vacation at Lake Tahoe. and his wife spent a few days visiting work in the rain, Stan. Conductor and Mrs. FRANK R. BOUL The Elko picnic was a huge success, in Southern California. Engineer and Mrs. THOMAS F . GRIF WARE announce the marriage of their as usual, which will be confirmed by We had a wonderful Plumas County FITH spent several weeks in San Fran daughter, Merla, to Joseph Gordon, H. A. O'RULLIAN, chief clerk, and Fair this year and, as advertised, "it cisco visiting their son and taking in son of E. S. Gordon of Dugway. The JAMES R. QUICK, PR clerk. They had is the greenest fair around." The petu the sights. couple spent their honeymoon in Cali nothing but praise for all the wonder nias were worth anyone's time to see. Engineer and Mrs. HEBER D. JONES fornia and are now residing in Dug ful people who contributed to their en Your correspondent particularly en visited the Sequoia, Kings Canyon, way. Congratulations and best wishes joyment and comfort and not even the joyed the Fair, having won two prizes and Yosemite parks and took a lei to the happy couple! unavoidable delay of their return trip this year; a Blue ribbon, and a Red one surely tour along the West coast. dampened their enthusiasm in having for her crochet work. Mixing work with pleasure, Engi MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT attended. From the Plumas National Bulletin, neer and Mrs. CECIL G. TRUMBO built Rod Rodriguez KEDDIE August 7, 1930: a new garage and on its completion C. E. MARCUS, supervisor of auto Elsie Hagen "Contract for building Western Pa spent several days fishing at Moon motive equipment, returned from a Quite a few left here for vacations cific extension northerly from Keddie Lake. week's vacation in Santa Cruz where last month. Engineer E. HALE and his to Bieber, to link that railroad with the Engineer and Mrs. HYRUM CLEGG he enjoyed his favorite sport-fishing. family went to Texas. Roadmaster Great Northern, was awarded Tuesday spent their vacation at home, inter Now he's back just in time to tackle CHET BARRY and his family drove to to the W. A. Bechtel Company, San spersed with several fishing trips to another phase of his assigned position, Yosemite and then on up the Coast for Francisco, and the Utah Construction well-known and successful Utah setting up a procedure for the me some fishing. BILL HECKELA and family Company, Ogden, on a joint bid. Work streams. chanical inspection and maintenance spent a few days bird hunting on the will be started at once and will be Conductor and Mes. JOSEPH A. COOK of the "Piggy Back" trailers, WP's Coast. Conductor EDDIE DUNN and rushed to completion." r eported a good time visiting in Yel latest step forward. family spent most of their time in Ore Conductor BILL STUBBLEFIELD is lowstone Park. Assistant Timekeeper A. DE LA LLATA gon with the DON SEGURS. taking flying lessons and really likes Conductor and Mrs. R. LAMAR HAN (on leave) , in his effort to unite and Our deepest sympathy to the J. O. it. His daughter seems to like it, too. SEN sojourned to Sun Valley, Idaho, to make a place in the Sacramento VAN BENTHUSEN family for the loss of Trainmaster BOB HENDERSON and his where they engaged in their favorite community for the Spanish-speaking their dear one. It was a great shock to wife spent part of their vacation in sport-golf. people, has inaugurated a new tele hear of his sudden death after having Los Angeles. Trainmaster and Mrs. GEORGE LORENZ vision program which he has named. just been in Keddie a week or two be Conductor MEL STRANG and his vacationed in Santa Barbara with their "Amigos Americlmos." All who have fore. We do hope the family will find family have moved to Oroville. 30 M ILEPO STS OCTOBER, 1955 31 ELKO good; Carmen L. ARANO and J . H. having worked for the AT&SF next Henry Wallock KELLY ; Hostler Helper N. E. WmTE ; door to our office as chief clerk. We and Sheet Metal Worker R. JO NES. welcome him into the WP family! I would like to thank BILL BRIENER, FOREMAN MERRILL, JAY KUMP, JOHN Foreman W. C. ROTZLER stayed at You will be hearing more from Bill, ETCHEBEHERE, ED ROPER and V. KERNS home to build a new fence around his as he succeeds me as chief clerk, and for the splendid help in putting over newly acquired home, and J . R. KUMP, as correspondent, this being my last our annual picnic, August 13. And electrician, took his Scout Troop some "copy," having been promoted to traffic thanks, too, to Mrs. Wallock for her where in Idaho along a nice cool representative at our Detroit agency. part in seasoning the beans-they were stream. I'll be looking forward to MILEPOSTS as just right! Also, wish to thank Mrs. After three years with WP, Mrs. it has been a lot of fun getting Cincin Carl Ross, cook at the Elko Hospital, JEAN BALDWIN, secretary to Chief nati in the news. for letting us cook our beans there Clerk LOREN AMES, left the company during the wee hours in the morning. to join her husband at Reno. SACRAMENTO SHOPS We are quite proud of our Elko JACK FORD, ticket clerk, is back from Marcella G. Schultze County Little L eague Ball Club as a vacation spent visiting friends and Car Inspector ED EVERS' 12-year-old they took the Nevada State Champion relatives in California and Idaho. daughter, Catherine, is becoming quite ship again this year and participated well known as the majorette of the in the regional tournament at Oroville. CINCINNATI Sutter Junior No.4 Odd Fellows Drum Though they lost there in their first Charles J. Hudgins Corps. She has appeared at several round, they are still the "Champs" as "Getting to Know You" features this local events, as well as the Napa Native far as Elko is concerned. Electrician month, Traffic Representative JOHN W. Jack and Wanda Hoppenjans and their chil Sons' celebration; and soon will be J . KUMP, Sheet Metal Worker H. JONES, HOPPENJANS. dren, from left to ri ght, Lynn, Reese and Ca rol. appearing at the Lodi Grape Festival. Besides attending these events, Ed's and Brakeman GIB LANDELL had sons Jack was born May 27,1925, in Cov clerk. Finding an interest in railroad time is pretty well taken up with a on the team along with Engineer DEAN ington, Kentucky, where he attended ing, he furthered his studies at St. KENDALL'S grandson. grade school. He attended St. Xavier Xavier University's evening college serious study of the game of pinochle all brought about by a visit to the The Babe Ruth League team of All High School in Cincinnati and en where for three and one-half years he Tahoe summer cabin of EDNA and Stars played the Reno All Stars for listed in the Navy in May of 1943. After studied transportation and traffic man LLOYD SPRATT. the State Championship, but Reno was "boot training" at Great Lakes, he was agement. just a little too powerful for the Elko transferred to San Diego, Balboa Park, Jack married Wanda Foltz, of Cov Former Machinist D. G. PLETCHER nine. Players for the Elko All Stars thence to San Francisco. Assigned ington, Kentucky, June 19, 1947, and visited the Shops to tell us he recently included the sons of Clerk TONY from there to the U. S. S. President they have three children, John Reese, married the former Louise Addessi of PRIMEAUX and Brakeman GIB LANDELL. Adams, Jack served 33 months aboard age 6; Donna Lynn, age 4; and Carol Sacramento; and that they are pres A recent visitor at the Elko office was as radio operator, having participated Ann, age 9 months. ently living in Kingman, Arizona, ELEANOR GOWAN, a stenographer here in operations at Bougainville, Guam, Jack's prime interest in sports is in where he is employed by General some years ago. Leyte, Philippines, Saipan and Iwo golf, although he also enjoys swim Electric Company. Our sympathy to the family of J . O. Jima. ming. He is very personable and a Painter "MAJOR" WILTSEY'S over VAN BENTHUSEN, assistant signal sup Upon Navy discharge in February, great guy to know. He has made many joyed by the fact that Mrs. Wiltsey ervisor, who passed away August 28 1946, Jack attended a business course new friends in his new position as can now walk with the assistance of a at Winnemucca from a heart ailment. at Campbell's Commercial College, traffic representative and is always cane, after years in her wheelchair. Recent vacationers were JACKIE Cincinnati. His first railroad expe ready to increase the list. To you "Major" exclaimed, "I sure was sur RWANT, clerk for Chief Dispatcher rience was for nine months as passen MILEPOSTS' readers, Jack extends his prised to see how tall she is, as this GEORGE NAYLOR; Foreman F. J . COLE ger clerk with the C&O, and in May, friendship. is the first time I've seen her standing MAN, who spent his time visiting 1948, he joined the Milwaukee as WILLIAM D. HAWKINS joined West up. You see, we were married while friends and relatives in Montana, re steno-clerk. He entered Western P a ern Pacific as chief clerk on September she was confined to her wheelchair." porting that the fishing was pretty cific service in December, 1952, as chief 12. Bill is an old friend of the WP, Which is wonderful news! 32 MILEPOSTS OCTOBER, 1955 33 l
cent three-month trip to Europe. Roy tour of Bryce, Zion and Grand Canyon. and his wife toured England, Scotland, She found this a particularly nice time Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, of the year to v isit these wonderlands Switzerland, and France. To add of nature as the weather was just another country to their list they comfortable. crossed Canada en route home. ROBERT PARKER, junior file clerk, JANE HOPKINS, of the same depart auditor of revenues department, is ment, sailed September 8 to Ireland to $5,000 richer on recently having been begin her European tour. Included in announced winner in the final tie her itinerary is a Mediterranean breaker match of the San F rancisco cruise. Chronicle's "Who Am I ?" Contest. We're glad to see BILL RACINE, chief BETTY ISBELL recently appeared on Members of the transportation a nd the equip Jane Todd's KCBS broadcast as a re clerk passenger accounts, back at his ment service accounts departments surprised Pat desk after a lengthy illness. The de Beatty (arrow ) with a baby shower a t the home sult of her appearance as zephyrette partment wasn't the same without him. of Pearl Cunha , left. Pat left Septembe r 30 on aboard the California Z ephyr during maternity leave after 12 years' company service. LEONARD AVERY, chief clerk miscel filming of "Cinerama Holiday." laneous accounts, went to Boston for BOB PFEIFFER, duplicating bureau, is his vacation and from there drove a junior engineer; and RICHARD 1. the new owner of a sicilian blue Lin new Volkswagen through the Eastern WHA LEY, engineering aide. coln Cosmopolitan, age unknown. Bob states and Maritime Provinces, cover Welcome to San Francisco, JIM says: "If you see the same model chauf " •.. and t o think I could have ta ken the Zephyr!" ing 6,479 miles and averaging 36.6 miles BAKER, new chief-sales and service, feUl'-driven, its purely coincidental!" succeeding ART ALLEN. Jim was former Donald Larson, son of Assistant Our condolences to the family of re per gallon! ANNE MALFA, manifest department, MILEPOSTS' correspondent at Chicago, General Freight Agent and Mrs. BYRON tired Carman J OSEPH JERAPEK, who LARSON, was married recently at St. spent a week's vacation with her folks where he last served as chief clerk. passed away in August; and to Elec Joseph's Catholic Church in Redding. in Susanville, and had her first glimpse You might notice a few days here trician and Mrs. TONY SANTOS on the The new Mrs. Larson, Jeanne, is the of her brother's twin boys born J une which will remind you of the Windy death of Mrs. Santos' mother. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J ohn L. 15. City, J im, but you won't have the heat Our best wishes for a rapid recovery in the summer and cold in the winter. Downs, of Redding. The couple will to Car Inspector O. C. HECOX who is Understand LARRY LEWIS, account make their home at National City, presently on leave due to a heart con ing department, went surf casting re "Skipper" BILL BOEBERT, chief special agent and general claim agent, spent California, while the groom is serving dition. cently with his pal, Ray Krebs of the with the Navy at San Ysidro. Congratulations to Carman and Mrs. Wabash Railroad, and had what is one week of his vacation as captain of HAROLD GONSALVES on the birth of their known as "beginner's luck." Caught 16 a 36- foot spoonbill-bowed ex- Navy launch escorting eight Sea Scouts and second son. fish, mostly perch. His buddy Ray's Blacksmith R. L. PAULE returned catch was far from spectacular - a mate to Steamboat Slough. Six of the from a gay vacation in Hollywood, Las measly four! Scouts and mate accompanied Bill Vegas, Reno, and all those "gaming Marie, Julie and Donald Ahlert, over the Labor Day weekend when spots" quick to report that "I didn't children of FRANK W. AHLERT, assist they took the SSS Aj'gonaut to Snod lose anything ... but, then, I didn't win ant to general auditor and comptroller, grass Slough, on the north fork of the anything either!" have a kitten which they think purrs Mokelumne River. In addition, Bill just like a WP diesel locomotive and is Scout counselor for Boy Scouts SAN FRANCISCO have appropriately named it "Diesel." wishing to study for their Railroad Rita Connolly, Molly Fagan, Lawrence Gerring. Welcome to four new engineering Merit Badge. Gwen Monds, Carl Rath, Rill Royal, Al Towne, Frank Tufo. department employees, JEREMIAH E. BLANCHE DEWEY, secretary to pas ROY FLEMING, auditor of revenues ABBOTT, junior engineer; ROBERT L. senger traffic m a nager JOSEPH G. department, thoroughly enjoyed a re- ORTH, draftsman; BENJAMIN C. STRANG, WHEELER, just returned from a colorful "Relax, Ma c, there's two of us!" 34 MILEPOSTS OCTOB ER , 1955 35 Sec. 34.66, P. l. & R. WESTERN PACIFIC MILEPOSTS U. S. POSTAGE 526 Mission St., San Francisco 5, Calif. PAID Return Postage Guaran teed San Francisco, Calif. Permit No. 5371
Form 3547 Requested
New York Central installs electronically controlled central reservations system on its lines east of Buffalo. • • • Lehigh Valley opens new million dollar freight and passenger station at Buffalo, New York.
"Railway Age" to publish new Mexican quarterly, "Selecciones del Railway Age," beginning· March,. . 1956. Santa Fe's new Hutchinson, Kansas, station featuring "suburban" theme sets pace in station design . • Installed by Illinois Central in a seventh-floor window and visible for about two miles along Chicago's Michigiln Boulevard, a searchlight dwarf signal flashed 55 times per mir,ute to set cadence for parades during Shrine's annual convention. • • • i Truck traffic salesmen at recent American Trucking Association"s Customer Rela tions Council meeting were urged to go "all out" to oppose any and all parts of the Cabinet Committee report on transportation. • • • General Motors' "Aerotrain," and another like it, will be released to the Pennsyl vania and New Yo rk Central for tests and demonstrations a bout November I. • An ACF forerunner of Rock Island's "Jet Rock et" reached 103 miles per hour during August test run.