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RAIL SAFETY AND TRACK REPAIR PRODUCTS SINCE 1904 RAIL SAFETY AND TRACK REPAIR PRODUCTS SINCE 1904 REFERENCES . 1. “Presidential Politics on 22. “William Howard Taft, An Intimate 17 Tour: George Washington to History” Judith Icke Anderson Franklin Delano Roosevelt (continued from previous page) SUMMER / FALL 2016 Woodrow Wilson” Anne C. Pluta, W.W. Norton NY, 1981, 28. Congress and the Presidency, 41, 23. Ibid., 34. (“Presidential Politics,” Pluta, During World FDR’s wartime arrivals and departures by train were as carefully hidden from 24. Ibid., 35, 36. hereafter). War II, Roosevelt’s train public view as his physical handicap. Whenever he travelled to New York City, his 25. “Woodrow Wilson and the 2016, © COPYRIGHT INC COMPANY, ALDON 2. “The President Travels by Train Congressional Battle That Nearly – Politics and Pullmans,” Bob trips were a closely-guarded unmarked train could enter Grand Central Station via an underground track (Track 61) Killed Him” A. Scott Berg, ( www. Withers, TLC PUBLISHING, 1996 vanityfair.com/news/2013/08 ) secret and were restricted which led to a private railroad station in the basement of the nearby Waldorf Astoria Hotel. (hereafter “The President Travels”, August, 2013. Withers). to visits to military bases, The station had been built for VIP guests when the hotel opened in 1929. Roosevelt’s 26. “The President Travels”, Withers. 3. Ibid. defense plants, and his armored automobile would be driven off the train and lifted up to street level in a freight Ibid. 4. Ibid. 27. Ibid. vacation retreat in Warm elevator. Track 61 is no longer in use; since 1945 a baggage car from FDR’s train has 5. “Presidential Politics,” Pluta. PRESIDENTIAL SPECIAL 28. Ibid. Springs, Georgia. In 1942, remained on the siding, slowly rusting away. (38) 6. “A New Industry Takes Flight— 29. “Americans in Depression and at the request of the Secret On April 13th, 1945, a day after FDR suffered a fatal cerebral hemorrhage at Railroads In The 1840s” ( www. War”, Irving Bernstein, U.S. american-rails.com). Service, the Association his Warm Springs, Georgia Department of Labor, (www.dol. 7. “Good Bye to Springfield: Lincoln’s gov/general/aboutdol/history/ of American Railroads retreat, the presidential train 18 Farewell Address,” A Teacher’s chapter 5 ) (8-31/2016). Bringing the President Resource Guide, Abraham Lincoln presented Roosevelt with a carried the president’s body 30. “The President Travels”, Withers. The “Ferdinand Magellan” on display at the Gold Coast Presidential Library and Museum – refurbished and specially- back to Hyde Park, New 31. Ibid. Railroad Museum in Miami, Florida. to the People (presidentlincoln.org). fortified Pullman car, the York, for burial. Roosevelt 8. “The President Travels by Train”, 32. Ibid. Withers. 33. “Presidential Passage”, Steven “Ferdinand Magellan,” which had been originally built in 1929. Named for the famous family members occupied 9. “The Globalization of American M.L. Aronson, Architectural Portuguese explorer, the 84-foot-long car was roomy enough to provide an office, a the “Magellan,” but because 1833-1952 Infrastructure: The Shipping Digest, Vol. 65, No. 10. conference/dining room, a kitchen, and private quarters for the president and family, a the thick glass windows Container and Freight October 2008. How the Railroads Transformed Transportation”, Matthew Heins, 34. “The President Travels”, Withers. maid, and a valet. (36) The gold-lettered name on the sides of the car was painted out to could not be opened, FDR’s Routledge, 2016. 35. “Presidential Passage”, Aronson. give the appearance of an ordinary coach . coffin had to be placed the American Presidency 10. “The President Travels by Train”, 36. a)“The President Travels”, Withers Built like a rolling safe, the “Magellan” was bomb-proof. The floor was reinforced in the next car. In scenes Withers. b) “All About Trains Run For The 1 11. “The ‘Flying White House’,” The President of The United States.” with 12 inches of concrete, embedded with sections of railroad rail. The outside walls were reminiscent of Lincoln’s Contemporary Presidency, Michael New York State Railroads, (www. armor-plated, the windows bullet-proof glass. There were two escape hatches in the roof funeral train 80 years John Burton, Wiley Online Library. kinglyheirs.com). 12. “Presidential Politics”, Pluta. 37. a) www.untappedcities.com The and a wheel chair lift. The “Magellan” possessed an early form of air-conditioning: a circu- earlier, thousands of people Secrets of Grand Central Part 3 lating pump forced water in copper tubes over 6,000 lbs of ice in bunkers under the car and stood alongside the track 13. “The President’s Railway Station” 2 René Bache, Harper’s Weekly Vol. 51 b) www.columbia.edu, Joseph up into a ceiling evaporator, where blowers forced the chilled air down through ventilators. and on station platforms, No. 2641, Oct. 1907. Brennan, Abandoned Stations, Grand Central Terminal, Waldorf A regular Pullman coach weighed 80 tons, while the “Magellan” topped 143 tons, making it weeping and praying as the Cadets and townspeople salute FDR’s funeral train as it passes 14. “The President Travels”, Withers. President Theodore Roosevelt greets the crowd during a stop on his 1903 cross-country tour. Astoria Platform. through Clemson, South Carolina. April 1945. 15. Ibid. the heaviest passenger car ever built. When Vice President Harry Truman saw the vault-like Presidential Special slowly 38. “The President Travels”, Withers. 16. Ibid. rear door, he hoped the Secret Service would never forget the combination! (37) rolled past. 39. Ibid. 17. “Presidential Travel – The Journey 40. Ibid. EORGE WASHINGTON Everywhere he stopped he was received from George Washington to established the tradition of George W. Bush”, Richard J. Ellis, 41. Ibid. with great enthusiasm. He later made University Press of Kansas, 2008. 42. Ibid. presidential tours in 1789, several tours of the southern states, 1945-1953 18. “Roosevelt as We Knew Him – The 43. “Campaigning On The B & O”, Bob Harry Truman Gsoon after his inauguration as our each taking months to accomplish Personal Recollections of 150 of His Withers, Trains magazine, Feb. 1990. first president. He travelled for several and each a testament to Washington’s Friends and Associates,” Frederick 44. “The President Travels”, Withers. Harry S. Truman was the only U.S. president who had actually was no formality when the Trumans travelled by train. At night, Truman washed his S. Wood, John C. Winston Co., 45. Ibid. months through the New England states, endurance. (1) But with such limited Philadelphia, 1927, 300. worked on the railroad. His first job after graduating from high own underwear and socks and hung them to dry in his presidential bedroom, as his 46. a) DALLAS (Texas) MORNING seeking to persuade his countrymen to transportation available, only a small 19. “Presidential Travels,” Ellis. school in Independence, Missouri, was as a timekeeper for the San- wife and daughter did in their compartment. (40) NEWS, April 7, 1905. 20. Theodore Roosevelt to John Hay, accept the Constitution and the new number of people could ever actually see b) BERKELEY DAILY GAZETTE, ta Fe Railway. He had come a long way from there when he took Truman believed rail trips by a president were good for democracy. “You get a 8/9/1903 Letter# 2757. Pp 547- Federal Government. He believed it and hear the president. What Americans 6/5/1936. over the presidency following FDR’s death. He had his own train now. real feeling of this country and the people in it when you’re on a train, speaking from 4 548, The Letters of Theodore was vital for him, as the first president, to learned about him came from printed speeches Roosevelt Vol.III, Harvard c) The Democrat (McKinney, In March 1945, Truman escorted Winston Churchill, the British the back of a train,” he said. “And the further you get away from that, the worse off you University Press, Cambridge, MA, Tex.), April 13, 1905, University of personally champion national unity. Washington which appeared in newspapers and handbills. For The John Bull. One of many British-built locomotives imported in the early 1951. North Texas Libraries, The Portal wartime leader, from Washington to a college in Fulton, Missouri, where Churchill was are, the worse off the country is…” (41) days of American railroading. Painting by Grif Teller. to Texas History, texashistory. travelled by horse-drawn coach, averaging the most part, the presidency was remote from 21. “Campaigning on the B & O”, Bob to give his famous “Iron Curtain” speech on the dangers of Soviet Russian expansion in Meeting citizens like this, the president could teach by example. At a stop in unt.edu; crediting Collin County Withers, TRAINS Magazine, Feb. no more than 5 mph, often over rutted roads. everyday life. Genealogical Society. Europe. As they sat over drinks in the lounge of the “Ferdinand Magellan,” Truman turned Texas, where racial segregation was firmly in place, Truman leaned over the railing to 1990. 1841-1845 to his guest and said, “Mr. Churchill, we are going to be together on this train for some time. shake hands with a black woman. The whites in the crowd booed. But Truman didn’t John Tyler I don’t want to rest on formality, back down and told the crowd that black people had the same rights as white people. (42) Steam power and the railroad proved essential to 19 so I would ask you to call me “Give ’em hell, Harry” was at his fighting best during the 1948 presidential All this changed in the early 1830s, when railroads made their appearance in the United government continuity in April 1841, when Vice States. Almost overnight, dozens of small railroad lines were organized in different states. Among President John Tyler received word that the presi- For the full story of the ‘Harry.’” Churchill responded by whistle-stop campaign.