PENN CENTRAL POST

NEWS FOR AMERICA'S LEADING RAILROAD FAMILY MARCH 1976 To The Penn Central Family:

In this final issue of the Penn Central Post, we want to thank and commend you for your loyal efforts during the difficult period we have gone through together. Our railroad has been operating under severe handicaps. Lack of sufficient funds limited the amount of maintenance we could do. Desirable improvement projects had to be shelved. There were shortages of supplies and materials. We constantly had to economize, improvise, make do. Through all this, you ably carried on with your duties, helping to provide a high level of service. Your performance deserved and received praise from our shippers. In a short time, ConRail will take over Penn Central's rail operations. You will be ConRail's greatest asset. We hope you will find satisfaction and fulfilment in your work for ConRail. Our best wishes to you.

Jervis Langdon, Jr. Robert W. Bianchette President and Richard C. Bond Chief Executive Officer John H. McArthur Trustees

ConRail to Take Control on April 1

On February 5, President Ford signed the service. Amtrak and ConRail will reach agree• by establishing new guidelines for the Inter• Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform ment on which corporation will have operating state Commerce Commission in determining Act of 1976. responsibility for the freight and commuter whether a freight rate is just and reasonable. This opened the way for the Consolidated services in the area. Examples of the guidelines: Rail Corporation (ConRail) to take control of Amtrak will initiate a five-year improvement If a freight rate meets the cost of providing the rail lines of Penn Central and six other program involving tracks, communications, the service, the ICC will not be allowed to re• bankrupt companies. electric power, stations, highway crossings and ject it as too low; and no freight rate is to be The government agencies involved have an• on-train radio-telephone service. rejected as too high unless the ICC finds that nounced that the take-over will become effec• Amtrak may include in the right-of-way im• the carrier has "market dominance" over the tive at 12:01 A.M. on Thursday, April 1, 1976. provement program the routes to Springfield, traffic. The Act signed by President Ford deals with Mass.; Albany, N.Y.; and Harrisburg, Pa., from Furthermore, a carrier will not be compelled a wide range of railroad matters. Major ele• the Northeast Corridor main line. to keep a freight rate at a certain high level ments are summarized below. Amtrak's assigned goal is to achieve, within simply to protect the traffic of some other five years, a regular and dependable schedule of carrier. Start-up Cash for ConRail 3 hours and 40 minutes between Boston and For the next two years, railroads may raise New York, and 2 hours and 40 minutes be• or lower specific freight rates as much as 7 Funds will be channeled to ConRail by the tween New York and Washington, including percent from the level in effect at the begin• Railway Association, a govern• stops at intermediate cities. ning of each year without having the rate ment agency. The Association will do this by The Secretary of Transportation is author• suspended by the ICC as being unreasonable. buying bonds and preferred stock issued by ized to finance the Northeast Corridor program Other provisions of the Act set up time ConRail. with interest-free loans and grants. limits for the ICC in reaching decisions in rate ConRail will use this cash to rehabilitate cases. and modernize the railroad properties; to pur• Branch-line Subsidies Of particular importance, the Act requires chase new locomotives, cars and other equip• the ICC to develop standards of adequate reve• Federal funds will be available to aid States ment; and to provide working capital. nue levels, sufficient to cover a carrier's opera• that want to continue local freight service on To take possession of the railroad lines, ting expenses and depreciation, plus a reason• light-traffic branches that are not now listed ConRail will not pay cash to the bankrupt able return on investment; and the ICC is to for inclusion in ConRail. companies. Instead it will issue preferred and make an effort to assist carriers in achieving States will be able to receive such aid to common stock, which will be distributed to those levels. cover a branch's operating losses; to purchase a the bankrupt companies by a special Federal The Act prohibits States from taxing rail• branch line to maintain existing service or pro• court. The preferred stock will be backed by road property at a higher level than other kinds vide for future service; or to improve a line to "certificates of value," guaranteed by the of property. Such discrimination has long been achieve adequate service. government, but only for liquidation value. common, but the railroads have generally been Another subsidy program will help States or The certificates will be redeemable no later unsuccessful in their attempts to gain relief. regional transportation authorities to sustain than December 31, 1987. It is expected that Railroads affected by unfair taxation will be commuter service. The Act provides that com• litigation over the value of the rail properties permitted to seek an injunction through the muter services operated by the bankrupt rail• taken will be lengthy. Federal courts. And States are barred from roads will not come to an abrupt halt when imposing other taxes in place of the discrimina• ConRail takes over. It specifies that the services tory property taxes. Improving the Corridor must be continued for some time, with the Another portion of the Act provides that government covering the full costs, to allow for ConRail is to sell or lease to the National within one year, the Secretary of Transporta• long-range planning. Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) all tion is to complete a study of the effect on railroad properties necessary for Northeast railroads of government aid to all forms of Corridor passenger service between Boston and Relief for the Railroads transportation; and he is to make recommen• Washington, D.C. Amtrak will assume all The Act offers the railroads a new measure dations for a policy regarding government aid operating responsibility for this intercity of freedom in setting freight rates. It does this to transportation. PC's Newest Piggyback Terminal

In a snowy debut, V. Himelyn drives the first incoming trailer down the Newark ramp. (this one is from Cleveland) with Dean Lucas and Terminal Manager F.D.(Woody) Houk.

The Penn Central people who modal Roy L. Hayes. Penn Central's piggyback map operate TrailVan piggyback ser• "It expresses our continuing now shows terminals in the fol• vices celebrated the New Year intention to make changes that lowing cities: by opening a new terminal at will better serve users of Trail- Albany, Baltimore, Boston, Newark, Delaware. Van service throughout our ter• Buffalo, Chicago (47th Street), It will serve the Wilmington ritory." Cincinnati, Cleveland, Colum• (Del.) area and the Delmarva Penn Central people are opti• bus, Detroit, Dundalk (Balti• Peninsula. The compact, effi• mistic about a rise in piggyback more marine terminal), Engle- ciently designed terminal has business this year, Mr. Hayes wood, East St. Louis (at Lower 45 parking spaces for truck- said. Yard and Rose Lake Yard), trailers and containers, and "During 1975, because of the Elkhart, Fort Wayne, Harris- track capacity for 10 piggyback business recession, our piggy• burg, Indianapolis, Jefferson- flatcars, which carry two trailers back volume fell about 12 per• ville, Kalamazoo, Kearny, Mon• each. cent below the 1974 figure," he trose (Canada), North Bergen, 'This makes a total of 31 PC said. "But the encouraging as• New Haven, (at terminals especially equipped pect is that in the final 11 weeks Aramingo Street and at Packer for handling freight in truck- of the year, 10 weeks showed Avenue), Pittsburgh, Newark trailers and containers," said an increase over the 1974 vol• (Del.), Rochester, Springfield, Clerk E. Szumowski phones a customer Assistant Vice President-Inter- ume." Syracuse, and Toledo. to report arrival of his piggyback loads.

the floor. arrived and arrested the original part of my job to protect lives and He got involved He jumped up, gave chase, and pair, while their two friends scat• property of the railroad." A man reached into a ticket of• caught the two near the station tered. The money was recovered. On reflection, he added: "If fice window at Grand Central Ter• exit. Jim McGovern was taken to the more people took a little action, minal in New York, grabbed $41 "Then two of their friends joined hospital and was kept there two the city would be a better place. and ran. in, kicking and punching," Jim days, recuperating from the blows. "Besides, the biggest thing we "Thief!" somebody shouted. McGovern said later. "We fought "When you're lying on your have on our side is the element of PC Electrician Jim McGovern our way out into the street. It was back in the hospital, you start to surprise. Today, no criminal thinks saw the thief and an accomplice pretty vicious." ask yourself, 'Why?' " he com• anyone wants to get involved. I rushing in his direction. He tried to PC Patrolman Pete Niland and mented. "I acted on impulse, but would like to see that condition block them, but was knocked to two Transit Authority policemen it was the only thing to do. It's be changed."

A Note about Passes Amtrak will issue new ones. There is no need to fill out a renewal application. However, employees who retire or Annual passes issued by Penn Central wives who are widowed during 1976 for the years 1969-70-71, and extended must submit Amtrak Form 90 to show since then, have been further extended the change in their status. to December 31,1976. Rail Travel Privilege Cards currently These passes are not good on Amtrak held by retired employees or widows are trains. They are for use only on Penn not scheduled to expire in 1976. Central commuter trains, with this ex• If there is a change of address or a ception: They are not good on New change in the number of dependents, York area commuter trains operated on it should be reported promptly on the Harlem, Hudson and New Haven Amtrak Form 91. lines by the Metropolitan Transportation If a Rail Travel Privilege Card is lost or Authority and the Connecticut Trans• stolen, the employee should fill out portation Authority. Amtrak Form 93 or 93B. All Penn Central passes held by persons All the Amtrak forms may be obtained no longer eligible to use them should be by active employees at the location where returned to the office where they were they report for work. Retired employees obtained. can obtain forms by writing to the loca• Amtrak Rail Travel Privilege Cards tion where they last worked. The forms held by the majority of active employees should be filled out and returned to the are scheduled to expire during 1976. office where obtained. Their Safety Posters Won National Awards

A child's-eye view of industrial PC youngsters recently had an safety is simple and practical: opportunity to express this idea in The child wants Dad to do his a safety poster contest sponsored job in a way that avoids injury, and by the Association of Railroad to come home safe and whole. Editors. The best posters submitted by Penn Central boys and girls were entered in competition with the best from other railroads. Now two of the Penn Central posters have been declared winners in this national competition: First prize in the 15-to-18 year group went to John A. McKeon, son of Francis P. McKeon, PC

assistant manager of freight car Albert M. Schofield, PC senior vice president-operations, presents awards from the utilization. John received a $100 Association of Railroad Editors to Michael Boone and John McKeon for their posters. U.S. Bond from the Association of Railroad Editors. Runner-up in the 5-to-10 year group was Michael Boone, son of trol. Thomas V. Boone, a freight brake- "Anything that calls attention to man on PC's Chesapeake Division. our railroad's safety rules is bound Michael received a $50 Bond. to contribute to the goal of acci• The final judging was done by dent prevention." staff members of the Association Both the PC winners have been of American Railroads. interested in art since early child• There was no Penn Central winner hood. in the ll-to-14 year group. How• In kindergarten, Michael Boone ever, only Penn Central and the entered an art contest conducted Southern Railway produced two by his school and won a blue ribbon prize-winners in the national rail• in competition with children up to road competition. the fifth grade. He now attends a "We congratulate our two winners private art class every Saturday. and all the other Penn Central boys John McKeon began drawing "as soon as he was old enough to hold and girls who had the initiative and a pencil," his father says. John will imagination to create posters on the graduate from high school this year vital subject of safety," said John and has been accepted by the pres• W. Rathvon, System director of tigious Hussian School of Art. operating rules and accident con-

John McKeon illustrates an important Michael Boone, son of a brakeman, sends rule from Penn Central's safety manual- a message applicable to all PC crafts.

MILITARY SERVICE: How It Figures In Railroad Retirement

A large proportion of railroaders A. If the military service meets A. Yes. And if you were ever have served in the Armed the requirements listed above, each called to active duty during the Forces. The following questions and month of military service can be national emergency period which answers explain how they can re• credited as a month of railroad ser• began December 16, 1950, and con• ceive credit under the Railroad vice. Such military service credits tinues to date, that service is also Retirement Act for their military can also serve, if needed, to meet creditable. or Social Security benefits? service. the minimum requirement of 10 A. Yes, but if your military ser• Q. I was in the U. S. Merchant years of service for a railroad an• vice is treated as railroad service, Marine for 3 years during World Q. Under what conditions can nuity; or the 25-year service re• there is a reduction in your Rail• War II. Can I receive credit for this military service be creditable as quirement for a supplemental an• road Retirement annuity to prevent service? railroad service? nuity. A. No. Service with the Mer• A. The individual must have been duplication of benefits. If the mili• tary service is treated as Social chant Marine or civilian employ• drafted, or have volunteered while Q. Can the employee use the Security credit, there is no military ment with the Department of De• the U. S. was at war or in a state of military service credits to "fatten" service reduction in either your fense is not creditable. national emergency; and he must his social security credits rather Railroad Retirement annuity or have worked in the railroad industry than his railroad retirement credits? Q. Were retirement taxes de• Social Security benefit. during the year he entered military A. Yes, he has that option. He ducted from my pay when I was in service or in the preceding year. may want to do so if he needs the the Army? Q. I did not go to work for a military credits to qualify for Social A. Since 1957, Social Security railroad until after my discharge Q. What are the national emer• Security benefits. taxes have been deducted from the from the Army in 1947. Does this gency or war periods which the pay of members of the Armed Q. How can employees deter• mean that my military service will Railroad Retirement Board uses in Forces. However, credit under the mine whether it is to their advan• not be creditable? crediting military service as railroad Railroad Retirement Act or Social tage to add military credits to their A. It will not be creditable as service? Security Act is given for years be• Social Security credits rather than months of railroad service; but it • April 6, 1917, through Nov• fore 1957, as well as after. to their railroad service credits? can be creditable as wages under ember 11,1918; If an employee's military ser• A. The Railroad Retirement the Social Security Act, and as such • September 8, 1939, through vice is credited as railroad service, a Board advises employees to contact will be included in the computation June 14, 1948; flat $160 per month of military ser• a Board office, where a Board rep• of your Railroad Retirement an• • December 16, 1950, to date. vice is credited as railroad compen• resentative can help them make the nuity, if you have at least 10 years (The state of national emergency, sation for years prior to 1968, and best decision. of railroad service. declared at the time of the Korean $260 per month for military service War, has never been revoked.) Q. If I am eligible for benefits Q. I'm in the Army Reserve. from 1968 through 1974. For years from the Veterans Administration, Can my active duty training and after 1974, the amount of actual Q. How does military service in• can my military service also be summer camps be creditable as rail• pay is creditable, subject to certain crease a railroad retirement annuity? creditable for Railroad Retirement road service? maximums. 200 100

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hat kinds of things are shipped points in all possible tonnage group• W by rail? ings in all possible types of cars, the ON THE COVER: Class session Everything, almost. total number of freight rates will for Penn Central people is led by More than 20,000 different com• run into the trillions," says Luther E. Albert Ovens, executive vice modities are listed in railroad tariffs. N. Hoover, director of freight bill• president of the Academy of Ad• And there are hundreds of vol• ing. vanced Traffic, at Philadelphia. umes of freight rate information "It's the railroad's responsibility that have to be consulted at one to prescribe, for each shipment, the time or another to find the correct one rate that is the most appro• course covered a lot of things I charge for a specific shipment. priate and the most economical for never got into on the job," she says It's a complicated business. the customer." Take a few examples: Freight charges are computed A manufacturer of life rafts who and inserted on the waybill by Sta• ships them in boxes or crates pays a tion Department personnel who lower freight rate than one who deal locally with the shipper. loads them loose in the boxcar. "But with more than 3,500,000 If you're in the bicycle business, waybills produced each year to you'll find specific individual freight cover shipments moving on the Penn rates for chain guards and mud Central, errors are bound to creep guards, for handle bars and kick in," said James E. Green, assistant stands, for wheels, wheel rims, wheel controller, general billing and col• spokes and training wheels. lection. Eileen M. Kukta started on the Suppose you're a shipper of lime railroad six years ago in the Car Ac• from Clearbrook, Virginia, to Alloy, "That explains the work of our rate revision people in the Freight counting Department, handling yard West Virginia. If you ship 30,000 reports on freight cars interchanged tons a year, the railroad charges you Billing Centers. Here the employees by Penn Central with other rail• $9.53 a ton; but if you ship 40,000 check waybills and revise them roads. Then she worked in "per- to 60,000 tons a year, you pay when they find any error in the centing" — computing the portions $9.38 a ton. freight rate or charges." that Penn Central and other rail• Michael F. Jameson started on And those are easy examples. The Billing and Collection De• roads get from an interline ship• the railroad in 1943 as a freight Things can get a lot more complex partment has been sending groups ment. station trucker, loading boxcars, than that. of its employees to the Academy "So I knew several phases of this then worked as a freight checker, "When you count up all the of Advanced Traffic for an inten• subject before I took the course," and finally moved into the Freight possible variations of rates for all sive four-week course in subjects she says — "but it was still tough." Accounting Department. possible commodities traveling be• connected with their work. "It's many years since I attended tween all possible geographical The Academy is a nationally rec• school," he says, "and here I am part ognized institution which teaches of a group that's covering the equi• the intricacies of freight rates to valent of a year of classroom work persons involved in transportation, in four weeks!" in industries that use transportation, in legal work affecting transporta• tion and in government. "Most of our students attend the Academy's classes one night a week," explained E. Albert Ovens, the Academy's executive vice presi• dent. "The Penn Central group, how• ever, is attending on a full-time schedule of five days a week, and will cover, in the four-week period, approximately what the evening students take one year to accom• plish. "That takes real doing, intensive application. "The Penn Central group includes Morris M. Bracy III completed persons who have been out of Brenda Johnson served two years two years of college before coming school for many years, but they in the Marine Corps (she reached the to the railroad in 1974, and is now showed an impressive ability to dig rank of Lance Corporal), then spent continuing his college work at night in and learn this large volume of a year at college before coming to to win a degree in accounting. material." Penn Central in 1971. "This course the railroad has Freight Billing Center has hundreds of Here are typical PC people who She started as a keypunch opera• sponsored — it's much more in• tariff volumes which are referred to, as have attended the Academy's train• tor, then worked in freight-bill re• tensive than anything I've had in J.J. McColgan is doing, to check rates. ing course: vision for two years — "but this college," he declares.

4 What's the Charge? What are the charges? To get that answer, the student Answer: $470.40 for the freight had to consult 14 sections in 4 differ• charges, $44.84 for the stop-off, and ent tariff volumes, plus the Railway To get an idea of what the stu• a $20.00 demurrage charge, for a Equipment Register and the Penn dents learn at the Academy of Ad• total of $535.24. Central map. vanced Traffic, here is a typical exam problem: A shipper on the Penn Central at Cleveland, 0., is sending a shipment to Cockeysville, Md., consisting of the following: 15,000 lbs. electric in• candescent lamps; 12,000 lbs. cast constructed electric lamps, sealed beam, other than auto; and, to be William J. Hopkins, who has 13 loaded at a stop-off at Ravenna, 0., years of railroad service, was class 5,000 lbs. mercury vapor electric coordinator as well as a student in lamps without globes or shades. The the Academy's course. items are in boxes, packed into car• "There was so much to it, you tons. The car is B&O 479076. couldn't afford to miss any part," The car left Cleveland on Febru• he says. "So you can imagine my ary 5, and was placed on the ship• dismay when midway in the course, per's siding at Ravenna for loading of I fractured an ankle playing foot• the mercury vapor lamps on February ball with my 10-year-old son. 6 at 2:00 PM. Due to loading plat• "Luckily, it happened on a Satur• form congestion, the car was not re• day. I went to the hospital, had a leased to the railroad until February cast put on, spent Sunday getting 9 at 10:00 AM. The car was delivered used to walking on it, and was able to the consignee's siding in Cockeys• At successful completion of the four-week course, students receive certificates from to get to class on Monday morn• ville, Md., on February 13 at 11:00 Donald V. Keyes and E. Albert Ovens, officials of the Academy of Advanced Traffic. ing." AM. This portion of the receiving line shows R. Nelson, L. Haney, V. DiSalvatore, B. Johnson.

Always room for one more

ast June, Robert M. Grab had with us, she would have enthusiasti• L open heart surgery, and then cally agreed to take in this Viet• went home for two months of re• namese boy." cuperation. The newest member of the house• It was a most unsuitable time to hold had fled from Saigon when take on the responsibility of adding the Communist troops were moving a new boy to the household — par• in. He and a sister got out by plane ticularly since Mr. Grab has nine• and ship to Guam, then were flown teen sons and daughters of his own, to the United States on a U.S. Air of whom eight are still living at Force plane. The sister has been home. taken in by another family. But this is what happened. Joe studied English for three His daughter Lucy, 18, had a years at school in Saigon, and is summer job as a waitress at the now taking special classes to in• Army base in Indiantown Gap, Pa., crease his proficiency. He attends in use as a reception center for Central Dauphin High School. Vietnamese refugees; and his daugh• "He's a whiz at mathematics — ter Kathy, 19, was on duty there as his teacher says he could teach the a Red Cross volunteer. They met a class," Mr. Grab says. "His goal is Vietnamese teenager who was ur• electrical engineering." gently looking for a sponsor. Joe, who was brought up in a "Let's take him, Dad," the two Catholic Vietnamese family, now girls said. worships with the Grab family at The Grab family piled into their St. Ann's Catholic Church (Byzan• station wagon and drove to Indian- tine Rite) in Harrisburg. town Gap to meet the young fellow. Why did Bob Grab take on this Of Robert M. Grab's 19 children, eight are still living at home. Here they And they voted a unanimous Yes. new responsibility? are at dinner with a ninth, a newcomer from Vietnam, nicknamed "Joe." Which is how Nguyen Ngoc Hien "Several reasons," he says. Clockwise, starting at left, are Danny, 19; David, 18; Jimmy, 14; ("my Christian name is Joseph — "First, I think Americans have "Joe," 18; Kathy, 19; Mr. Grab, 59; Pat, 22; Peg, 21; Lucy, 18; Eddie, 15. please call me Joe") moved into the an obligation to the Vietnamese big old 10-room house of the Grab refugees — our peace settlement family in Linglestown, Pa., eight sold them down the river, in my miles outside of Harrisburg. opinion. Bob Grab is a foreman of electric "Second, I feel my family has an traction. He's in charge of PC em• obligation to share because we've ployees who maintain 18 electric- been so fortunate. We have fine power substations located along 120 children, we've been able to provide miles of railroad line in Eastern for all of them, we've been able to Pennsylvania. He started as railroad educate them as far as their interests electrician 34 years ago. would carry them — we have a Back when he was courting a chemical engineer, a civil engineer, lovely girl named Mary Mahon, she a college staff member, a registered told him that her vision of a happy nurse. One son, Patrick, recently marriage included ten children. joined the railroad as an electrician "She thought that would scare helper. me off," he says. "But we almost "Third, I've been personally for• doubled that with nineteen children, tunate in having a railroad job — a including two sets of twins. And kind of job I've always loved. now along comes Joe to make it an "Add all these things together, even twenty. and you can see why it isn't strange "Mrs. Grab died of cancer in that we've taken this fine Viet• 1974. I know that if she were still namese boy into our home." "Joe" (native name Nguyen Ngoc Hien) tries his hand at football. The Grab boys, who tend to grow big, say about him, "He's small—but fast!"

5 Where every guy keeps an eye on the other guy

What's it about? Why do they watch each other? Can't trust the other fellow? Not at all. "What it's about is that each man keeps an eye out for the safety of the man working next to him," ex• plains James M. LeGates, superin• tendent of the Cincinnati Division. "It's a tradition around here. You're watchful of the other fellow, Hard hat, safety glasses, and firm footing and if you see him doing something on ladder with heels against the rung- unsafe you tell him. some of the precautions taken by Shirley Before starting day's work. Welder H.D. Schmidt detected crack in acetylene hose and Evans as he repairs a car's bulkhead. showed it to Gen. Foreman A.E. Himler. If not replaced, explosion could have resulted. "It's a simple idea. But it's the greatest accident-prevention formu• la I ever heard of." This formula is one of the prime lion mark in August, 1975, and to go to the hospital? If so, who factors in the Cincinnati Division's have continued their no-accident took him? What did the doctor do? consistently good safety record, Jim streak into 1976. Was the man taken home? Was a LeGates says. "We must be doing something medicine prescribed? If so, did Of Penn Central's 20 Divisions, right," says Jim LeGates. somebody get it for him right away? Cincinnati rated first in safety in There are a number of important "And so on. Every detail is con• 1971, fifth place in 1972, third in elements in the Division's safety sidered important." 1973, second in 1974, and third program besides the watch-the- Another feature of the safety during 1975. other-guy routine. program is a schedule of meetings In addition, Cincinnati Division One is prompt investigation. at which employees are invited to people have racked up some daz• "Whenever there's a personal in• speak out on work practices or con• zling stretches of time when not a jury on the Division, the superin• ditions that might affect safety. single injury occurred. tendent expects the staff officer in "A number of employee sugges• For example: charge of the particular operation tions at M-of-E shop meetings have Between June and October, 1973, to make an immediate investigation been put into effect," Mr. Dawson Suggesting ways the entire Division recorded and deliver a prompt report on what says. 1,000,000 man-hours of work with• happened, why it happened, and "At these meetings, we discuss to boost safety out a lost-time injury. what will be done to keep it from not only injuries on our Division The Division's Maintenance-of- happening again," says Robert N. but also M-of-E accidents or prob• At a safety meeting in the Way employees, by themselves, re• Dawson, Division master mechanic. lems anywhere on the PC System Cincinnati Division's car shop corded a million accident-free man- "By prompt report, I mean the and even on other railroads as relat• at Sharonville, Ind., Car Re• hours between November, 1972, next morning. Even if the next ed in government reports," Bob pairman R. F. Hericks stated and March, 1974. morning is Sunday. Dawson says. that yard crews were some• And the Maintenance-of-Equip- "We're expected to report every• "Our thought is, it can happen times spotting cars completely ment employees hit the magic mil- thing: Did the injured person have here. Why not learn from someone blocking the road leading to the else's misfortune and take precau• shop. This could prevent an tionary steps and be on the alert to emergency vehicle from getting keep it from happening to us?" through to take care of an in• Working safely is a matter of jury in the shop, he said. professionalism, Bob Dawson con• He suggested that wooden cludes. markers, painted a luminous "A railroader who's a profession• orange, be placed on both sides al about his job will want to work of the road to indicate the area in a manner that will keep him from that yard crews should keep getting hurt," he explains. clear. "And his feelings won't be hurt General Foreman C. F. (Red) if you tell him that something he is Meyer approved the suggestion, doing is unsafe. Hell appreciate the and the markers were installed. tip, and act on it." Les Rook, local chairman of Electrician H. L. Carpenter has turned off the Brotherhood of Firemen & the switch before replacing a headlight Oilers, warned of a safety hazard bulb. Otherwise the 73-volt battery could at the east end of the repair produce an arc and burn his fingers. track where the operator of the car mover (a tractor with couplers) had poor visibility at Car Inspector Thomas F. Mahaffie puts night. He suggested a light be on a derail to assure that no other equip• installed. ment will run on his track while he in• General Foreman Meyer a- spects this cut of auto-carrying cars. dopted the suggestion. Several employees at the locomotive shop reported that CORRECTION autos speeding past the shop An article in the November- endangered employees walking December issue of the Penn from the locker room to the Central Post, describing union fueling station. In a discussion support for the railroad's pro• with General Foreman A. E. gram to prevent and control Himler, they suggested the alcoholism, incorrectly identi• autos be slowed by putting fied Robert E. Johnson as a "speed bumps" in the road. general chairman. His correct General Foreman Himler a- title is Vice President, American Machinist Jack Forste, collecting a lube Safety shoes, with good heels and soles greed, and arranged through the Train Dispatchers Association. oil sample, keeps a secure handhold and for traction, are a must for J.F. Craw• Maintenance-of-Way Depart• watches his footing for possible oil film. ford who fuels locomotives at Sharonville. ment to have this done.

6 Telling the Railroad Story

Twenty Penn Central em• hibit, which was situated on ployees donated their free time tracks in the middle of the city during a recent weekend to help fair grounds, included a diesel tell the railroad story to thou• locomotive, a caboose, a covered sands of visitors at the annual hopper car and one of the new Baltimore City Fair. RailBox cars. "Our people took turns man• In addition to Tom Peace, ning a railroad industry exhibit, the PC volunteers were: answered questions, and dis• Secretaries Angela Colliflower tributed literature describing and Creola Moran, Block Opera• the vital role of the railroads tors J. G. Gannon and D. M. in America's progress," said Novak, Budget Clerk Lou Vara- Thomas J. Peace, PC manager celle, Office Managers P. H. of Trail Van sales. Hokemeyer, Jack Leonard and Tom Peace is chairman of the Mary Ellen Miciche, Sales Rep• Baltimore chapter of the Rail• resentatives Jack Rodgers, Bill road Community Service Com• McMasters and Gene Krauss, mittee, a volunteer unit of the Division Sales Manager William Eastern Railroad Association. Zell, International Sales Mana• Participating in the activities of ger Robert Jensen, Division En• the Baltimore committee are gineer Carl Metzger, Road Fore• employees of the four railroads men Charles Leafgreen and that service this energetic port Charles McMullin, Trainmaster School children as well as adults—by the thousands—came to the railroad exhibit at the Rudy Jonas, General Foreman- city: the Penn Central, Chessie, annual Baltimore City Fair. Here, greeting the visitors, are Thomas J. Peace, Penn Central Western Maryland, and Canton MW Equipment Andy Roseberry manager of TrailVan sales, and William Zell, division sales manager. With them as official railroads. and Material Engineer W. A. hostess is Fran Lynch, Miss Maryland Transportation, who won the title for writing The Baltimore railroad ex• Johnson. the best essay on the subject, "What part does transportation play in a growing nation?"

The The illustration on this year's road commissioned him to create for this painting. He noted, first, Penn Central Post calendar is a 12 posters showing historic loca• that although the Declaration of In• painting by the late N.C. Wyeth, tions along the railroad's lines, to dependence was adopted on July 4, one of America's most famous encourage passenger travel. The and issued as a printed flyer on July illustrators. Liberty Bell painting was the first. 5, the first public reading was on Calendar In 1930, the Pennsylvania Rail- Mr. Wyeth did thorough research July 8. That was the day the bell was rung to call the citizens to the offi• cial ceremony in the south yard of JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH the State House at Philadelphia. S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S The artist looked up old records which described July 8, 1776, as a 12 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 day of brilliant sunshine, and he so 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8 9 1011 12 13 14 7 8 9 1011 1213 portrayed it in his painting. 11 1213 14 15 16 17 14 15 16171819 20 To correctly show the arc of the 15 161718 19 20 21 clapper, Mr. Wyeth felt inside the 18 192021 22 23 24 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 rim of the bell "for the two bat• 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 29 28 29 30 31 tered indentations which clearly mark, on directly opposite sides, APRIL MAY the actual points of impact where the hammer-like blows of the heavy S M T W T F S S M T W T F S clapper struck again and again as 12 3 1 the bell was tolled." 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Penn CENTRAL 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Andrew McNair, official bell 11 121314 15 1617 9 1011 1213 1415 ringer for the State House, was di• rected to toll the bell just before 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 16171819 20 2122 noon," Mr. Wyeth said. "It is not 25 26 27 28 29 30 1976 % * 25 26 27 28 29 difficult to imagine that in his knowledge of the importance of the JUNE JULY occasion, the bell ringer had es• pecially invited his wife and chil• 5 M T W T F S S M T W T F S dren to join him in the belfry." 1 2 3 4 5 12 3 Mr. Wyeth quoted the following 6 7 8 9 1011 12 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 words from the diary of one of the spectators at this notable event: 13 1415 1617 18 19 11 12 131415 16 17 "There was a large assembly of 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 people in the yard who had been 27 28 29 30 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 summoned by the tolling of the Liberty Bell, as there had been AUGUST SEPTEMBER many times before on the occasion of some public event. S M T W T F S 5 M T W T F S "Passing through the assembled 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 12 3 4 crowds, the procession of officials, 8 9 1011 121314 5 6 7 8 9 1011 who had charge of proclaiming this State paper to the people, reached 15 1617 1819 20 21 12 13 1415 16 17 18 the platform, at which time the 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 RINGING OUT LIBERTY I 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Liberty Bell ceased ringing. 29 30 31 July 8,1776, PHILADELPHIA 26 27 28 29 30 "Colonel John Nixon, to whom the High Sheriff of Philadelphia OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER had delegated the reading, stood up in the silence. He was a strong- S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S voiced and open-featured man. 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 12 3 4 "He began reading with the 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 7 8 9 1011 12 13 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 words, 'In Congress, July 4, 1776, a 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 12 1314 15 16 17 18 Declaration of the Representatives 1415 1617 1819 20 of the United States of America,' 17 1819 20 2122 23 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 and read through the important 24 3125 26 27 28 29 30 28 29 30 26 27 28 29 30 31 document, and it was accepted with general applause and heartfelt satis• faction."

7 The old stations find new friends

Last summer, Bruce Everett, a Michigan State University fresh• man at home on vacation, took a look at the commuter station at Strafford, Pa., and decided it needed new paint. Aware of the railroad's strapped finances, he volunteered to take on the project with the help of friends. Joining him were Nancy Hooper, a Muhlenberg College freshman; Dave Hughes, a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania; and Tracy Handel, a high school senior. They recruited other young people, collected donations from commuters and local businessmen, bought paint Girl Scouts from around the world came to Bryn Mawr College, at Bryn Mawr, Pa., for and brushes, and rented ladders and an ecology conference. They decided a fun way to spend their free time was to decorate scaffolds. the interior of the nearby commuter station. Here are Regina Helena Abbate, from Brazil; It took them four weeks to com• Maria Nina Bilom, Philippines; Ivy Malzivanyika, Zambia, Africa; Karen Ernest, Calif. plete a two-coat job on all the gables, 1 I! 1 eaves, columns, arches and curlicues of the quaint old Victorian edifice. "There," said Bruce Everett— "that's better." At dozens of locations on the Penn Central, individuals and civic groups have volunteered to spruce up old stations as an expression of community pride. Several civic groups are veterans at this—they've been keeping the local station in fresh paint and flower boxes for years. The approach of the Bicen• tennial celebration has stimulated many others to join in. The basic maintenance of passen• ger stations has become a divided responsibility. Stations used for in• tercity passenger service are the re• A group of citizens, organized as the Old Saybrook Train Station Committee, recruited sponsibility of Amtrak. In most volunteer help to scrape and repaint this Connecticut passenger station. Shown dis• commuter service areas, State or re• cussing plans for the project are Barbara Maynard, Old Saybrook selectwoman; Thomas Dave Hughes (foreground), Bruce Everett gional transportation authorities Christensen, general chairman, Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees; George (on the ladder) and other students collect• have financial responsibility for Cahill, vice president. United Transportation Union; and C.R. McKenna, general ed donations and repainted the Penn Cen• station maintenance or improve• manager. Northeastern Region. (Photo by Margaret Bushy, New Haven Register). tral commuter station at Strafford, Pa. ments. But community groups are eager ladder, scraper and brushes." Government will fix up to do their thing. At Carey, Ohio, several-score At Wilmington, Del., for example, students and adults donated labor some major stations the station was given a modern-art and supplies to repaint the former decor by local artists, with paint depot and erect a flagpole in honor Eight stations along PC's North• supplied by the DuPont Company. of the Bicentennial. The Carey east Corridor will receive face-lifts Citizens at Old Say brook, Conn., Garden Club put in a flower bed, through a cooperative project of turned out to repaint the Amtrak and the VFW Auxiliary contributed the U.S. Department of Transporta• station in response to the call of a the final touch in the form of red- tion and the U.S. Department of volunteer group: "Bring your own white-and-blue curtains. Commerce. A Federal grant of $2,350,000 provides for the following kinds of work: Cleaning ceilings and floors, painting walls, fixing broken glass, repairing paving, renovating rest- rooms, sandblasting exterior walls, The Jaycees of Maple Shade, N.J., did a and overhauling ventilation, heating patriotic repaint on the PC station. Or, and lighting systems as needed. as the Maple Shade Observer expressed it, Included in the program, which "They transformed Big Red into Big Red, is expected to run for six to nine White and Blue." Youths of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church cleared debris from the months, are the stations at Boston area. (Photo from Maple Shade Observer) (South Station), Providence, New Haven, New London, Newark, Phila• delphia (30th Street Station), Wil• mington and Baltimore. The Federal Railroad Admin• istration is contracting the work through the Penn Central Transpor• tation Company, but will maintain overall program management and design responsibility. Meanwhile, Amtrak will spend At left are some of the high school students and DeMolay members who scraped and re• several million dollars on improve• painted the former PC depot at Carey, Ohio, for the Bicentennial. They worked as much ments to stations and other facili• as 12 hours a day, using 31 gallons of paint donated by citizens. Above, some of the vol• unteers pose with PC Trainmaster Joe T. Underwood (right), who cooperated in the ties along the route of its Lake Shore project. In addition to the outside painting, VFW members and Auxiliary refurbished an Limited, the new train running be• inside room by replastering the ceiling, painting the walls red, white and blue, and in• tween Chicago and Boston, with a stalling new curtains with a Bicentennial motif. (Photo courtesy The Progressor-Times) section to New York City. Chatauqua County and the City of Dunkirk, N.Y., financed a summer work program for young persons. One project, with the cooperation of Penn Central people, was the beau- tification of a 340 foot section of railway embankment. The youths cleared away debris, They called it "Operation Pride." Students of the Coppin Elementary School in Baltimore, built a retaining wall, covered it with creek stone, and planted trees, ivy and flowers. Md., organized by the Parent-Teacher Association, cleared the underbrush along a section Two bridges were painted red, white and blue, with the numbers 1776 and 1976. of the railroad right-of-way behind the school grounds. Penn Central people helped.

New Station for Rahway

A new passenger station of portion of the older structure. modern design has been built at The features include new light• Rahway, N.J., paid for with ing, heating, plastic seating funds from State of New Jersey units and windows of unbreak• transportation bonds. able Lex an plastic. The architectural and engi• On the westbound platform, neering plans were prepared by anodized aluminum stair enclo• the Office of PC Chief Engi• sures and a heated waiting neer James T. Sullivan and shelter were constructed. Load• under the direct supervision of ing platforms on both sides of Architec t William C. Humphreys. the tracks were repaired and Most of the old station on new lighting was installed. Part the east side of the main line of the old station site was con• was torn down, and a new two- verted into a landscaped park• story station was constructed ing and driveway area. by building brick walls with During construction, a parked anodized aluminum window trailer accommodated passen• panels around the remaining gers as a ticket office.

Patrick Snyder Faces the Future

The March of Dimes com- Patrick must breathe through a mittee for Chester County, tracheotomy tube inserted in Pa., had convened to select the his throat. This hinders the de• Poster Child for 1976. velopment of normal speech. Just then, down the hall The day after Patrick was came 2-year-old Patrick Snyder, born, on October 6, 1973, he speeding on his crutches, beam• had to be rushed into surgery ing an indomitable smile. for a tracheotomy to keep him The vote was unanimous. alive. And Patrick's photo is now Since then, life for Dave and spotlighting this year's March of Donna Snyder has been a con• Dimes campaign to raise funds stant round of crises. Patrick for research into the causes and has been in and out of the hos• treatment of birth defects. pital for emergencies or surgi• Patrick is the son of David E. cal procedures. At home, Patrick Snyder, Penn Central supervisor has to be constantly tended to of tariff compilation. Dave and make sure the tracheotomy tube his group have the job of is kept clean and free of mucus assembling for publication all which could clog breathing. the freight rates issued by the The only thing that has made Penn Central. the burden tolerable is the Dave Snyder and his wife child's bright, eager face and a Donna had two physically nor• spirit undaunted by braces and mal children before Patrick was crutches. born. The baby was diagnosed The most pressing problem as having Larsen's syndrome — is medical bills. The railroad's Dave Snyder tightens braces and arranges the crutches — Patrick takes it from there. a congenital defect in the devel• insurance has covered about opment of cartilage. 80 percent, but that still leaves This means that all the joints more than $3,500 which the bills. Persons who wish to help in the arms, legs and fingers are Snyders have been struggling to The national March of Dimes may send contributions to that loosely connected — can be bent pay. There are frequent phone organization has approved the fund, care of First National forward and backward. It also calls from hospital credit man• establishment of a special fund Bank of West Chester, 311 N. means incomplete development agers. And looming ahead are called "March of Dimes — Five Points Road, West Chester, of the windpipe, so that little years of additional surgery and Patrick Snyder." PA 19380.

9 How to Win a College Degree

What does it take to work full steam-generator specialist at the he worked the second trick at the time in a diesel maintenance Diesel Shop in New Haven, CT. Diesel Shop. shop and carry a full schedule of Clint Toles became conscious "It was tough," he says. "Some• college classes, too? of the value of education in the times, I'd wonder if I'd get "Hard work, perseverance, a Navy. He had dropped out of through. But my wife, my seven loving family that will sacrifice high school to enter the service. children and the Lord were be• for you, and the help of God." His Navy assignment stimulated hind me." That's what Machinist Clinton an interest in learning about diesel Along with business courses, C. Toles says brought him to the engines. He then embarked on a he specialized in electronic com• graduation ceremonies at the Uni• course of study that brought munications. He's hoping he'll versity of New Haven where he him a high school equivalency find it possible to continue his proudly received a degree in busi• diploma. education — perhaps on to a ness administration. He came to work on the rail• master's degree. "I decided four years ago that road in 1965. When he decided "I believe in the future of the I had more to give the railroad, to enroll at the University, he railroad," says Clint Toles. "Edu• but I knew I would need an chose to go in the daytime, with cation can be a big help in being education to do it," says this students half his age. After classes, a part of that future."

Recent Appointments

SYSTEM OFFICES Menna, L.B. Computer Analyst Mohawk-Hudson Division Detroit Division Miller, P.L. Manager-Planning Research Clingerman, C.J. Assistant General Foreman, Bull, A., Jr. Assistant General Foreman-Car Trustees Murphy, D.J. Senior Systems Analyst New York Greer, D.R. Supervisor-Operating Rules Mustaccio, F.J. System Control Analyst Deeley, J.C. Terminal Superintendent, Hunt, R.A. Division Engineer Lindsey, R.A. Corporate Planning Associate Phillips, W.R. Transportation Research Selkirk Tomlinson, J.R. Executive Vice President- Engineer Michigan Division Reorganization Struzinski, J.G. Advisory Systems Analyst New England Division Ellsworth, M.J. Project Engineer-215 Program Sutherland, D.A. Asst. Manager- Knouse, M.E. Master Mechanic, New Haven Fraser, J.A. Division Superintendent Legal Transportation Research O'Brien, J.J. Supervisor-C&S, New Haven Kocur, P.P. Traveling Auditor-Semi Senior Templeton, J.V. Transportation Research WESTERN REGION Engineer NORTHEAST CORRIDOR REGION Bibly, K.C General Supvr.-Maintenance of Finance & Accounting Tryon, E.K. Planning Analyst Costello, P.J. Supervisor-Warranty Control, Facilities, Chicago Bell, M.A. Customer Account Auditor Viscusi, J.B. Advisory Systems Analyst Paoli Gustavson, D.C Shop Superintendent, Bonner, R.C. General Tax Accountant Wiseman, R.J. System Control Analyst Deeds, H.J. Production Engineer-Track Collinwood Conroy, T.J. Customer Account Auditor Zahn, P.M. Senior Planning Analyst Heiler, E.P. General Foreman, Paoli Hann, D.D. Engineer Training Coordinator, Crane, F.R. Tax Accountant Kaiser, A.A. Captain-Police, Newark Cleveland Cunningham, R.D. Area Credit Manager Secretary LaMarche, W.C. Assistant General Foreman, Davey, J.J. Manager-Passenger Reimbursement Hartzell, R.L. Asst. Manager-Building Services Paoli Chicago Division Barclay, F.K. Terminal Superintendent, Accounts Herz, P. Asst. Registrar of Contracts, Metzger, P. Production Engineer Gallagher, J.P., III Tax Analyst New York Elkhart Garner, J.A. Equipment Engineer, Chicago Hudson, B.E. Customer Account Auditor Martorelli, A.V Corporate Research Assistant Chesapeake Division Martin, E.L. Asst. General Foreman- Kowali,C.J. Supervisor-Passenger Stamato, V.F. Asst. Manager-Records O'Leary, R.J. Division Engineer, Baltimore Locomotive, Chicago Reimbursement Review & Storage Renn, L. Assistant General Foreman- Lane, D.M. Customer Account Auditor Car, Baltimore McWilliams, R.E Road Foreman, Elkhart Orosco, M.W. Lebo, J.F. Specialist-Passenger SENIOR VICE-PRESIDENT OPERATIONS Weisman, W.L. General Foreman-Car, Asst Supervisor-Track Colehour Reimbursement Review Demotsis, C.J. Block Operator Instructor, Wilmington Rish, G.L. Asst. Supervisor-Structures, McGrath, C.J. Supervisor-Reproduction Wilmington, Del. Wiley, E.R. Assistant Supervisor-Track, Chicago Opal, G.W. Collection Manager Foster, R.L. Senior Block Operator Instructor, Perryville Simon, F.G. Trainmaster, Burns Harbor Ormsby, L.K. Customer Account Auditor Wilmington, Del. Rose, W.J. Supvr.-Divisional Audit, Rhoads, H.R. Training Administrator Harrisburg Division Cleveland Division Switching & Reaudit, Detroit Pope, W.P. Division Engineer, Harrisburg Knepp, L.L. Equipment Engineer, Cleveland Waters, J.J. Manager-Tax Planning Transportation Young, T.E. Customer Account Auditor Hartman, W. Field Terminal Supervisor, New Jersey Division Fort Wayne Division Corning, N.Y. Bair, A.H. Supervisor-Track, New York Ellenwood, J.H. Equipment Engineer, Marketing Ottinger, H.R. Supervisor-Freight Car Fazio, F. Assistant Supervisor-Track, Ft. Wayne Astle, W.G. Manager-Coal & Ore Pricing Weehawken, N.J. Utilization Toledo Division Betzler, G.J. Director-Coal & Ore Pricing Tipping, CP., Jr. Supervisor-Freight Car Marshall, L.B. Assistant Supervisor-Track, Keeler, R.W. Road Foreman, Toledo Clark, H.A. Asst. Manager-Coal & Ore Utilization Morrisville, Pa. Pricing Field Engineer-Corridor, N.Y. Palenque, M. SOUTHERN REGION Dooley, M.J. Asst. Director-Coal & Ore Engineering Swartz, F.H. Project Engineer-215 Program, Carpenter, L.C Asst. Production Engineer- Pricing Eimer, N. Manager-215 Program Systems New York Track, Dayton James, R.V. Commerce Manager Operation O'Connell, J.J Supervisor-Coal & Ore Glickstein, D.L. Director-Engineering New York District Cincinnati Division Pricing Systems Development Rodin, J.P. Assistant General Foreman-Car, Carine, D.T. Asst. Supervisor-Track, Rockefeller, H.R. Manager-Coal & Ore Grzechowiak, S.J. Asst. Material Engineer Sunnyside Pricing Cincinnati Lakes, V. Asst. Supervisor-Track, Stewart, G.W. Supervisor-Flexi Flo Terminal, Philadelphia Terminal Division Cincinnati Charleston Equipment Hasson, F.J., Jr. Trainmaster Caudill, R.D. Assistant General Foreman, Lewandowski, G.T. Terminal Trainmaster Sales Wilmington, Del. Sporar, R.T. Trainmaster, Thorndale Columbus Division Brunnworth, J.H. Sales Representative, Stone, G.K. Inspector-Fire Prevention Geiniman, P.R. Project Engineer-215 Program Chicago & Protection Southwest Division CENTRAL REGION Labor Relations & Personnel METROPOLITAN REGION Brown, C.R. Project Engineer-215 Program Grafton, K.C., Jr. Instructor-T.&E. Training Crain, J.R., Jr. Asst. Supervisor-Track, Rudi, A.J. Assistant Examiner Bagley, R.H. Rules Examiner, New York Center, Conway Terre Haute Sarantos, R. Assistant Supervisor- Ervin, B.T., Jr. Regional Engineer Construction- Marshall, T.A. Instructor-T.&E. Training Dietrich, R.O. Supvr.-Yard Procedures, Personnel, Chicago Signal & E.T. Center, Conway Indianapolis Jacobs, D.W. Engineer-Design & Construction Embler, D.C. Road Foreman, Indianapolis Vice President - Staff Marlowe, V.L. Supervisor-Train Operation, Allegheny Division Mason, D.E. Equipment Engineer, Indianapolis Brodowski, P.L. Senior Systems Analyst New York Bowser, CM. Supervisor-Train Operation, Mize, D. Mechanical Supervisor-Locomotive, Casella, V.J. Manager-Telecommunications Mearsheimer, T.J. Regional Engineer-Design Altoona Indianapolis Facilities &Construction-Structures Finkbeiner, J.D. Assistant Supervisor-Track, Smallwood, L.E. Asst. Supervisor-Track, Cherry, R.F. Supervisor-Applications Miller, D.K. Regional Engineer-Maintenance Lewistown Effingham Training of Way Costello, F.E. System Control Analyst Macaluso, C.C. Material Engineer, Altoona Olsson, A.W. Trainmaster, Stamford Mazur, M. Assistant Supervisor-Track, Davis, A.S. Senior TABS Controller Paisley, M.E. Engineer-Structures, New York Drelick, S.J. Senior Systems Analyst Altoona Friedel, J.M. Manager-New York Data Center Vezza, R.P. Supervisor-Track, Lewistown Jungkurth, A. Telecommunications Analyst NORTHEASTERN REGION Lipsitz, I. Telecommunications Engineer Lillquist, R.L. Staff Engineer-C&S, Pittsburgh Division Manfre, R.J. Senior Data Processing New Haven Garmon, R.A. Supervisor-Track, Pitcairn Instructor Shaw, D.D. Regional Supervisor-Car Rockney, J.L. Asst. Supervisor-Structures, Mangold, W.M. Senior File Specialist Distribution Pittsburgh Martin, R.T. Coordinator-Micromation Walter, J.E. Regional Mechanical Supervisor- Shivers, D.L. Supervisor-Track, Tarentum, Pa. Support Freight Cars, New Haven Stoneberg, J.E. Supervisor-Track, Wellsville, O.

Boston District Valley Division Carosielli, J.A. Assistant Supervisor-Track, Lacey, D.A. Road Foreman, Boston Penn Central Transportation Company Youngstown publishes this tabloid magazine for its Light, G.E. Trainmaster, Goodman, O. employees. Address communications Buffalo Division O'Connell, T.A. Trainmaster, Wheatland, Pa. to Penn Central Post, Room 1040, Barnard, R.W. Asst. Division Engineer, Terminal General Foreman, Six Penn Center, Phila., Pa. 19104. Rochester Sell, R.P. Ashtabula Brinkel, E.G. Road Foreman, Rochester Division Road Foreman, MANAGER — EMPLOYEE PUBLICATIONS Connelly, J.P., Jr. Terminal Superintendent, Smith, B.F. Youngstown Joseph Shallit Buffalo

SYSTEM PHOTOGRAPHER Gibson, R.H. Trainmaster, Lockport Nelson M. Stickler Quinn, R.S. Supervisor-Train Operation, Buffalo NORTHERN REGION Salli, T.J. Road Foreman, Buffalo Pfeifer, T.F. Captain-Pol ice, Detroit

10 SPEAKING OF COINS... Railroaders in the Metropoli• tan Region have recently or• ganized the Penn Central Em• ployees' Coin Club. They're inviting coin collectors all over the System to join with them. "We hope to respond to all collectors' specialities—U.S., for• eign, error coins, ancient coins, paper currency," said Jim Mar- tino, club president, a PC tele• PENNIES by the ton phone and teletype maintainer. Vice president is William H. Naddio, a recording clerk; and ow many pennies do you figure secretary-treasurer is Paul H. H the U.S. Mints produce in a Kugler, an electrical department year? A hundred million? Five hun• foreman. dred million? Persons interested should More. Billions. write to Jim Martino, 3452 For example, 1975's production Stratford Road, Wantagh, New figure was 9,956,751,442 cents.* York 11793. With such a jingling torrent, how could there ever be a penny shortage? Several reasons: Many people col• lect pennies as a hobby. Others stuff them in piggy banks as an easy At the , S.R. Gregory stacks bronze form of savings. Many others con• coils which weigh approximately 4,000 lbs. sider pennies a nuisance and put them in drawers, letting them ac• with plants at Reuters and East Bronze coils—for making pennies—are cumulate for years before bothering Alton, Illinois. They produce a loaded at the Olin Corporation plant in to take them to the bank. bronze consisting of 95 percent East Alton, III., for shipment via Penn The government hopes that good copper and 5 percent zinc. That's Central to U.S. Mint at Philadelphia. John Amorosi runs a bronze strip through citizens will end this hoarding and what pennies are made of. a blanking press. Like a cookie-cutter, get those pennies back in circula• Penn Central crews now haul the press punches out penny-size pieces. tion. this alloy—in the form of coiled Meanwhile, the U.S. Mints have strips—to the U.S. Mint at Phila• to continue producing pennies in delphia. Specially-equipped box• vast quantities to meet the needs cars, with built-in bulkheads, of business. safeguard the loads. Which brings us to the point of "Careful, damage-free handling this story: is essential at every step of the Penn Central people have a key way, to keep the coils from being role in the penny production line. dented or crimped," said William L.ast year they hauled thousands J. Von der Schmidt, PC sales man• of tons of copper from a govern• ager at St. Louis, who services the ment warehouse at New Bedford, Olin traffic. Mass., to commercial plants that At the Mint, the metal strips are process the metal for the Mint. put through a blanking press, which Francis Lorenti keeps inventory of pen• One of the processors is the punches out coin-size pieces. These nies in the Mint's vault. The coins are sent to the Bank, which Brass Group of Olin Corporation, pieces, called blanks or planchets, distributes them to local banks as needed. go to another machine which forms *NOTE: The word PENNY is used in this a raised rim around each blank, PC Brakeman J.V. Anthony signals en• article because it's the commonly-used and then, finally to a coining press gineer as car of coiled bronze is delivered name, but the official Mint term is for 5-cent pieces are coming from to a warehouse serving Philadelphia Mint. CENT. which strikes an image into both the Brass Division of the Ana• sides of the blank, producing the conda Company. The metal, in the finished coin. form of coiled strips, is sent by Olin is also shipping, via PC truck from the Anaconda plant boxcar, coils of metal for making at Kenosha, Wisconsin, to Penn nickels. This metal is an alloy of Central's Trail Van terminal at 75 percent copper and 25 percent Chicago. From there, the ship• nickel. ments travel by PC piggyback to Additional shipments of metal the Philadelphia Mint.

Al's Idea

When Albert Stein has thoughts on public issues, he believes in speaking out. He writes letters to newspapers. He writes to his Con• gressman and Senators. And re• cently he wrote to KYW-TV, Channel 3, Philadelphia. The station put him on the air. Calendar of NYC Memories In a 50-second spot, Al was shown proposing a way to boost Five years ago, some PC railroad• versary notes of historic events on participation in elections (only ers who had worked on the NYC the railroad. 56.7% of eligible persons voted for formed the New York Central Sys• The 1976 calendar is now avail• President in 1972). "Later, almost everywhere I tem Historical Society, to collect and able at $2.50 each. (Ohio residents Al's idea: "Congress should pass went, somebody said, *I saw you preserve data and mementoes of that should add sales tax.) Orders may be a law granting a $25 rebate on in• on TV,' " Al reported. railroad. sent to New York Central System come tax for every citizen who Al Stein is a clerk in PC's Demur• The membership has grown to Historical Society, P.O. Box 10027, votes. I'm sure this would help rage Bureau at 30th Street, Phila., more than 700, including active and Cleveland, OH 44110. bring out the people who sit home under Manager Wayne E. Brown. retired railroaders and railfans. One of the calendar's photos is every election and just comment." Al's activities include serving on the One of the society's projects is a shown above — a pair of NYC The TV station thought the idea grievance committee and board of yearly calendar containing old-time Mohawks near the coal dock at so intriguing, it repeated the spot a trustees of Local 124, Brotherhood photos of NYC locomotives and anni• Galion, OH, in 1948. dozen times. of Railway and Airline Clerks.

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