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SEPTEMBER • 1964

The Express Races Toward Buffalo Headlight NEWS BRIEFS SEPTEMBER, 1964

Vol. 25 No. 8 LOADINGS OF REVENUE CARS... net income figure is the highest since the first Printed in U.S.A. for the New York Central System reached a total six months of 1957. of 123,534 during the month of July. The figure On the other hand, however, it was also reported IN THIS ISSUE represents a decrease of 4,241 cars (or 1.8 per cent) by the Association that 23 of the 101 railroads did from July, 1963. not earn enough operating revenues to cover their

NEWS BRIEFS 3 Varying amounts of decreases were noted in fixed charges for the first six months of 1964. FREIGHT SERVICE CENTER .... 4 all commodity classifications over the July, 1963, • • • HANDLING DIMENSION LOADS . . 6 period. These ranged from automobile revenue PROMOTIONS 7 car loadings, which dropped to a total of 3,409 cars (or BILLION-DOLLAR IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM ... HEADLIGHT HILITES 8 18.3 per cent), to packing house products, down has given American railroads their most extensive FLEXI-VAN & DIAL ...10 53 cars (or 1 per cent) from July of last year. physical face-lifting in the past six years. The STEEL SHUTTLE 10 In the period from January 1st to July 31st, 1964, figure is for 1963 and may be exceeded by 25 per cent P&LE CROSSES A RIVER .... 1 1 car loadings totaled 1,710,525. This represents a in 1964, according to J. Elmer Monroe, an official SAFETY MEMO 12 decrease of 16,432 (or 1 per cent) from the correspond• of the Association of American Railroads. In his RECENTLY RETIRED 13 ing period during 1963. new booklet, "A Review of Railroad Operations in From Mattoon to Mexico • • • CENTRALINES 14 On a nationwide basis, the Association of American 1963," he traces a rising trend in railroad modern• went this recent shipment of 18 carloads of canal liner machinery. Ship• PATS ON THE BACK 15 Railroads reports that the nation's railroads recorded a ization over the last three years. The trend, ment was made via New York Central from the Blaw-Knox Company's WORLD'S FAIR GLASSWARE ... 16 total of 560,264 cars loaded with freight during the week Mr. Monroe reports, has brought railroad capital Construction Equipment Division at Mattoon, Illinois. From left: Charles ending July 25. The total figure is an increase of spending from a postwar low of $646,425,000 in Stilabower, Central's Freight Agent at Mattoon; Thomas D. Eckles, NORMAN M. STONE 1.5 per cent over the preceding week, but is 6.7 per cent 1961 to the 1963 total of $l,043,788,000-the first General Sales Manager of Blaw-Knox's Mattoon Plant; and Thomas E. Manager, Publications & Advertising below the same week in 1963. Reynolds, Central's Illinois Division Superintendent. billion-dollar breakthrough since 1957. GEORGE BOHOT, Editor The AAR attributed part of the decline to the However, he added, the nation's railroads need fact that a high percentage of coal miners were on SYDNEY OXBERRY, Art Editor to spend between $1.5 billion and $2 billion a year on vacation during that period and, conseguently, capital improvement work. This expenditure is normal work activity had been reduced at the nation's necessary to overcome obsolescence and to fully coal mines. In the comparable 1963 week, most of realize the gains offered by advancing rail technology. EDITORIAL ASSOCIATES the miners had returned from vacations, the John E. Salter, Syracuse AAR stated. Harry B. Spurrier, Chicago • • • BIGGEST PRODUCTION CAR... Donald A. Newman, ever built by railroad equipment makers reports the Farwell C. Rhodes, Jr., Indianapolis RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD ... Association of American Railroads, is the "high-cube," Robert W. Schuette, announces the publication of its recently updated the new railroad box car expected to play an important Fred A. Huber, Jr., issue of "Legal Opinions." The handbook includes role in distribution activities of the auto industry. selected rulings issued by the Board's Bureau of According to the Association, the new box car Law during 1961. Information includes application HEADLIGHT is published by tbe New York holds 10,000 cubic feet of cargo, more than double the Central System for its active and retired and interpretation of the law in questions concerning volume of the conventional car, and is ideally employes and their families. All commu• the Railroad Retirement and Unemployment nications should be addressed to the suited to the auto makers' special needs. Conventional HEADLIGHT editorial office: Room 1446,466 Insurance Acts. box cars required the building of special interiors Lexington Ave, New York 17, N. Y. Mem- Retired railroad employees will find useful ber: American Railway Magazine Editors for each type of auto part. In "high cubes", fork-lift Association, New York Association of information in "Legal Opinions." The handbook trucks load and unload especially-designed racks Industrial Communicators, International is available at 50 cents per copy. Orders for copies Council of Industrial Editors. which hold various auto parts. should be directed only to: Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, • • • From Manhattan to Syracuse • • • ON THE COVER: No. 50, New Washington, D.C. 20402. was the "thrill-of-a-lifetime" trip this group of youngsters will always York Central's ever-popular "Empire RAILROAD UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT ... remember. Group is part of over 1000 boys and girls from New York State Express," races through upstate reports that an average of more than 30,000 jobs a City who rode the Central to upstate New York. Event was the recent New York, giving passengers dramatic year have been found for claimants over the past 10 views of pleasant, rolling countryside. annual vacation program sponsored by The New York Herald Tribune THE 101 CLASS I RAILROADS... years. The Insurance Act authorizes the Railroad Fresh Air Fund. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Bennett (couple at left) give The train originates at Grand Central a smiling welcome to young Richard Kohlmann, of Brooklyn, who spent Terminal . . . then goes through all of the nation had an estimated net income of $195 Retirement Board to operate a free employment service his vacation in their home. Mr. Bennett, Terminal Trainmaster at DeWitt, major New York cities to Buffalo . . . million in the second quarter of 1964, the for unemployed railroad workers. Board officials and Mrs. Bennett escorted a group of 300 youngsters from Grand Central then on to Cleveland and Detroit in Association of American Railroads has announced. explained that many of the placements are due to the Terminal to Syracuse. two sections. "The Empire" was photo• Total net income for the first half of 1964 was fine cooperation of railroad unemployment claims graphed near Wayneport, N. Y., by photographer Ed Nowak. estimated at $339 million. According to the AAR, this agents and Personnel departments.

September, 1964 3 2 New York Central Headlight GENERAL CLERICAL STAFF FOR SERVICE CENTER. NEW FACILITY COMBINES FREIGHT & YARD OFFICE FOR CHICAGO SWITCHING DISTRICT. Freight Service Center NEW YORK CENTRAL'S latest consolidated Freight Service Center is housed in recently renovated and completely modernized building in Englewood, Illinois. OPENS AT ENGLEWOOD "Bob" Barnes, Central's Freight Agent at Englewood. Results are always impressive when fully air-conditioned office building in are offices of the Freight Agent, Assistant The new center is expected to become New York Central employees use team• less than five weeks. The old interior was Freight Agent, Trainmasters, Cashier, the prototype for similar installations at work and determination—in a common ripped out. Tiled floors, wood-paneled Accounting Revision Bureau, Yard major points along the System. Such a effort toward a common goal. walls, sound-proofed ceilings, fluorescent Office personnel, and the Machine Room. consolidation is currently under way at This was the spirit that enabled the lighting and Venetian blinds were in• Electronic data processing equipment in Kankakee. recent opening in Englewood, Ill., of stalled. the Machine Room will eventually be Consolidation at Englewood involved Central's latest consolidated Freight Outside, the "ginger-bread" wainscot• hooked into Data Central, New York transferring forces from the former Polk Service Center. ing was removed and the entire surface Central's system-wide electronic com• Street Station. This, in turn, enabled the The Center combines, for the first sandblasted. Sandblasting operations re• munications network. expansion at that station of Flexi-Van time, Freight Station and Yard Offices. vealed an attractive brick facade dis• On the second floor are located the mail handling facilities required to meet The new facility is at 63rd and State colored over the years. clerical forces, including Clerk, demands of this growing traffic. Streets, in a now completely modernized To provide adequate employee park• Rate Clerk, Switching Clerk and Coal Two enormous signs advertise the structure originally built before the turn ing space, a dirt bank and railroad trestle Clerk, also the billers and statistician. Center and its service. One faces the of the century. were removed. The entire area was re• "Putting these departments under one New York Central's mainline, the other New York Central forces, in coopera• surfaced with crushed stone ... all done roof streamlines our billing and car faces State Street. Both herald the new in less than eight hours. handling procedures and permits more station as a modern freight service cen• CASHIER & ACCOUNTING Dept. From left: James Barrow, Cashier; Joseph Ward, tion with contractors, converted the two- On the first floor of the new Center efficient customer service," said F. R. ter on the "Road to the Future." Ass't Cashier-Machine Operator; Mrs. Betty Hoogenboom, Accounts Tracer. story Victorian structure into a modern,

SUPERVISORY Department for new Freight Service ACCOUNTING Revision Center at Englewood in• Department is on the first cludes, from left: Freight floor of Central's new Agent Robert Barnes; Miss Freight Service Center. Staff Anna Murnane, Stenogra• includes, from left: John pher; James Ryan, Assistant Peletier, Chief Revision Freight Agent; and Ken Clerk;& Miss Lillian Pandell, Kier, Chief Clerk to Agent. Revision & Extension Clerk.

September, 1964 4 New York Central Headlight QUALITY TRANSPORTATION: Employes Move Into New Posts on NYC

PITTSBURGH & LAKE ERIE the European Theater of Operations. Wayne W. Knotts, District Freight Curtis D. Buford Mr. Buford entered service of the Salesman at Indianapolis since 1957, has — a former Assist• New York Central in January of 1946 been promoted to the position of District New York Central "Babies" ant General Man• in the Transportation Department. After Freight Sales Manager at the same loca• ager of the Western 10 years in the Operating Department- tion. Mr. Knotts joined the Central Sys• District — has re• serving in several different divisions and tem in 1945, serving in various clerical Dimension Load Shipments turned to the New three districts—he was appointed Assist• capacities until 1956. He was then pro• moted to the position of Chief Clerk to York Central Sys• ant General Manager of the Western District at Cleveland. the Assistant Freight Sales Manager at ^ Movement of a big, heavy-duty power shipments are measured by a Car In• often consigned to a public utility and tem as Executive He served in that capacity for three Indianapolis. transformer over the Central System is spector. Measurements include height the equipment is slated either for expan• Vice President of years and also spent some time on spe• always an impressive sight. The ship• above the rail and over-all width. This sion purposes or to replace worn out cial assignments for the Central. In ment is usually on its way to an electric information is given to the office of the units. If the transformer is damaged 1959 he has been 1959, he was elected to the AAR. generating station where the transformer Director of Freight Train Operation. while in transit, then "down the drain" serving as Vice President, Operations & is used to convert high voltage into use• Here a special route is plotted so that go all the months and the dollars re• Maintenance Department, of the Asso• The new Executive Vice President was able current such as 440, 220 and 110 the car can move without the trans• quired to build this shipment. ciation of American Railroads. elected in June by P&LE's Board of volts required by homes and industries. former colliding with overhead structures Also, the Central's reputation as a In 1942, Mr. Buford was graduated Directors. He took office September 1. In addition to being impressive in along the way. safe and efficient transportation com• from Massachusetts Institute of Tech• To some extent, the official is follow• appearance, this type of electrical equip• Sometimes the width of a shipment pany is seriously impaired . . . and the nology with a Bachelor's Degree in Civil ing in the footsteps of his father, the late ment also carries an impressive price will restrict its movement to certain Central has to pay a substantial sum of Engineering and Transportation. He im• Charles H. Buford. The elder Mr. tag. Transformers can easily cost $250,- tracks. Additional restrictions might re• money to repair the damages. mediately entered the Army, serving Buford served as AAR's Vice President 000 or more. This costly—and important quire that the car move over those tracks Naturally, the Central wants to con• principally with the Transportation of Operations and Maintenance from W. W. Knotts D. L. Werby —freight must be given "Quality Trans• only when no are passing on an tinue handling shipments of transform• Corps in the United States, Alaska and 1939 to 1946. portation." adjoining track. ers, as well as other types of electrical Don L. Werby has been named As• Transformers are often shipped on Why all this precaution? equipment and machinery. The shipper sistant Director of Flexi-Van Sales & depressed-center cars. This type of car The foremost reason for all this extra and the consignee have to be sure that Service at . Mr. Werby— is specifically designed to handle large attention is the need to move these ship• the shipment will arrive in A-l condition. MARKETING DEPARTMENT Lewis W. Fritsche, Jr., has been pro• a native of Kansas City, Mo.—joined the items of machinery. It enables the Cen• ments safely over the rails. This includes Perhaps the best way to achieve this Richard H. Steiner has been appointed moted to the position of Manager of Central in 1959 as a management trainee tral to move the shipment under bridges the safety of train crews and the safety is to remember that—due to their size— to the newly-created position of Manager Flexi-Van Sales & Service with head• in the Freight Sales & Service Depart• and other overhead structures. of people riding passenger trains. Sec• these shipments require special handling. of Agriculture Industry Services. Mr. quarters at . Mr. Fritsche ment at Detroit. In 1961 he was ap• Railroaders call this type of shipment ondly, it is vitally important that the The explicit routing instructions on the Steiner will work on specific programs to joined the Central there in 1946 in the pointed Assistant Manager of Flexi- a "dimension load" mainly because of shipment arrive undamaged at its des• waybills must be followed. support agricultural sales through orien• General Office of the Freight Sales De• Van Sales & Service at Cincinnati. He its size. This means that its height and tination. tation of Central's services to require• partment. He was promoted to the posi• became Manager of Flexi-Van Sales & tion of Chief Clerk to the Division Service in April of 1963 and served in width are greater than the minimum Many months are required to design, Review Instructions ments of agricultural producer and con• clearances on certain tracks. engineer and build the large, heavy-duty sumer. Mr. Steiner—a native of Lewis- Freight Sales Manager, Dayton, O., in that capacity until his recent promotion. At point of origin, dimension load transformers. These large shipments are In every freight terminal, responsi• ton, Idaho — joined Central's Market 1955. The next year Mr. Fritsche was bility is assigned to one person, who Planning & Research Department in promoted to District Freight Salesman SOUTHERN DISTRICT at Birmingham, Ala. In 1962, he moved carefully reviews instructions on these 1960. In 1962 he was named an Industry H. Jack Frandsen is the newly-ap• to Indianapolis in the same capacity. Al Sherry: 71 Years a Railroader oversized loads and sees that yard and Planning Analyst. pointed Freight Agent at Lawrenceburg, Since 1963 and until his recent promo• road forces are fully acquainted with Ind. Mr. Frandsen joined the Central tion, he has been serving as Assistant The story of NYC's Alvenus (Al) the route through the yards and over in 1944. He served 15 years as Freight Manager of Flexi-Van Sales & Service Sherry is the story of a remarkable the road. Agent at Livingston, 111., and also briefly at Indianapolis. career which can truly be termed "a The total weight is another important as Yardmaster at Mitchell, 111. Since lifetime of railroading." point to watch in handling these large 1962 Mr. Frandsen has been Freight Mr. Sherry, New York Central's shipments. Many shipments originate at Agent at Paris, 111. oldest employee in point of service, locations on foreign lines. Personnel on has chalked up an unbroken 71-year these lines may not always know the stint with the Company. Hale and hearty weight limitations of retarders in some at 89, he has been New York Central's of the freight yards along the route. New Castle, Ind. Agent for the last 54 Present weight limitation on the Cen• R. H. Steiner J. E. Bowen years. tral for a single car moving over a hump FREIGHT SALES & SERVICE DEPT. He was 17 when he first joined the equipped with retarders is 240,000 lbs. Peoria & Eastern Railway as a teleg• Any shipment weighing more than that James E. Bowen has been named Dis• trict Perishable Freight Sales Manager rapher's assistant at Crete, in Ran• should not be allowed to run free. It L W. Fritsche A. L. Horstman dolph County. The year was 1892 and must be coupled to an engine and moved in the Chicago area. A native Chicagoan, the salary was $10 a month. around or over the hump. Of course, Mr. Bowen entered service there in the Anthony L. Horstman has been named Passenger Sales & Service Department. Some years later, he served as Agent any heavy car must be handled with care District Freight Sales Manager with H. J. Frandsen J. H. Henderson at Losantville, Wilkinson, and Shirley in either hump, flat yard or road oper• In 1946, after serving in various clerical headquarters at Washington, D. C. Mr. before becoming New Castle Agent in ation. capacities, Mr. Bowen was promoted to Horstman joined the Central in 1959 as James H. Henderson has been pro• 1909. New Castle's oldtimer is regarded Previous HEADLIGHT articles have dis• City Passenger Agent at Milwaukee. In a management trainee in Freight Sales. moted to the position of Freight Agent as one of NYC's most dedicated em• cussed "Quality Transportation." Every 1953 he was named traveling Passenger In 1961 he was appointed District and General Yardmaster at Louisville, Agent at Chicago. He transferred to the Freight Salesman at Boston, and in 1962, Ky. Mr. Henderson—a native of Urbana, ployees. He has twice won official com• AL SHERRY, alert and hearty at 89, is NYC's shipper—and every shipment—must be mendation for customer courtesy. given quality transportation. Not only Freight Sales Department as District Flexi-Van Sales Representative at the 111.—entered service in 1948 at Thorn- oldest employee in point of service. The For his many years of service, the does this include dimension loads, it also Freight Salesman in 1959. Since 1963, same location. Before his recent promo• town, Ind. Later, Mr. Henderson served veteran railroader was presented a life• well-known Agent at New Castle (still on the includes shipments of equipment or ma• Mr. Bowen has been serving as Assistant tion, he served as Industrial Develop• as Freight Agent at Shelbyville, Ind. For time pass in 1956 by Alfred E. Perlman, job) began his career in 1 892. Shown with chinery that might be smaller in size Manager of Flexi-Van Sales & Service, ment Analyst in the Real Estate Depart• the past three years he has been serving President of the Central. him is Indiana Div. Supt. Gerald E. Maas. (continued on p. 14) at Chicago. ment at New York City. in the same capacity at Lawrenceburg.

September, 1964 7 6 New York Central Headlight As Television Camera Rolls . . . a New York Central Flexi-Van at Syracuse is swung into position for coupling to highway vehicle. Cameraman atop the station wagon is G. E. Landen, of the Television Film Center at Cornell University. He's shooting the film for "New York's Changing Agriculture", a short feature describing the role transportation plays in development of agriculture. The movie is part of "Today's Dynamic Agriculture", an eight-picture series being prepared by the Film Farewell Dinner . . . Center for future showings on television. The photo is by Bill Colarocco, retired New York Central employee. Largest Special Train . . . and gifts from her associates came as a pleasant sur• arriving in New York City for the recent Shrine Convention was Central's Moolah prise to Margaret Divoky, Secretary to John Dolan Temple Shrine Special from St. Louis. Some 720 passengers (Shriners and their (right), Assistant General Attorney for the Central at families) were on the 20-coach train. Central's Roy Spangenberg (left), Manager Cleveland. Miss Divoky and Central's Robert Mustard of Passenger Sales, welcomes fellow Shriner Walter T. Smith, Mrs. Smith, and —possibly taking a cue from the proposed Penn-Central their son, Thomas, as they arrive in . Mr. Smith—an merger—apparently made some "merger" plans of their officer of Moolah Temple in St. Louis—is Vice President of Anheuser-Busch, Inc. own. They married recently and now live in Mentor, O. Mr. Spangenberg served as Aide-to-the-Potentate and member of the Imperial Mr. Mustard is Western District Mechanical Supt. HEADLIGHT Shrine Transportation Committee. Moolah is his home temple. HILITES

Spencer A. Rowan . . . of Reynoldsburg, O., is the new Chairman of the Railroad Com• munity Service Committee of the Columbus Area. Mr. Rowan — "Great for Freight" . . . District Freight Salesman for the is the word from shippers using Central's prototype car (above). The 70-ton capacity box car- Central at Columbus — joined built by East Rochester Car Shop personnel—has an inside length of 50'7", a 10' side door opening, Central in 1950 as Engine Dis• Calling All NYC Engineers . . . cushioned underframe and lading strap anchors. Other features include adjustable belt rails and patcher at West Columbus. After and firemen who ran this class of engine (Hudson J-l, J-2 and J-3; New York Central Numbers 5200 to 5454; B&A load restraining equipment. Panel insulation and other interior fixtures can be readily applied to several promotions, he was ap• Numbers 600 to 619). A railroad book publisher is gathering information for a volume on the Hudson type locomotive meet shipper's requirements for a refrigerated box car. Prototype car was designed by Equip• pointed to his present post on the of the New York Central. If you ran or fired one, send any interesting photos and stories you may have concerning them to: ment Engineering Dept. working under James H. Heron, Assistant Vice President—Equipment. Central in June, 1963. Al Staufer, Rt. 4, Box 145, Medina, O.Mr. Staufer will send each contributor a free 34" x 14" drawing of No. 5344 (above).

New York Central Headlight September, 1964 P&LE NEW SPANS were added to P&LE's railroad bridge by two methods: float• CROSSES A RIVER ing into place on barges (left), and by rolling from temporary pilings (rt.)

CENTRAL'S FLEXI-VANS TRANSPORT PRECISION GLASS PARTS TO PORT OF NEW YORK. In a precisely-timed engineering ma• neuver, five spans of P&LE's railroad bridge over the Monongahela River were replaced recently with five new ones. The Flexi-Vans Help Chicago Firm Increase Sales entire operation was finished in 48 hours. The & Lake Erie—an affili• ate of the New York Central—owns the Apparently, two big—and important- crease in export sales, and (2) a Presi• shipped to New York via Flexi-Van. In• 1,800' bridge between Homestead and things began to happen when the Chi• dential "E" Award for excellence in the specting a sample of the glass are, from Rankin, Penna. It is on the mainline and cago Dial Company embarked upon an export field. left: Harry Finch, Assistant Manager, carries some 40 to 50 trains per day. export expansion program some time Burton Kallick, the firm's Vice Presi• Flexi-Van Sales & Service; Ken Otto, Work on the span change-over began ago. The firm is a custom fabricator of dent for Sales, said that "the excellent Traffic Manager, Chicago Dial; Mr. Kal• at 6 a.m. on a Saturday and the bridge precision glass parts for industry and fast service we enjoy from New York lick; and Bernard L. Miller, Assistant was back in service at 6 a.m. Monday. uses Central's Flexi-Van services to bring Central and the frequent sailings through Manager of the Port Authority's Trade This time was chosen so there would be its products to the Port of New York the Port of New York enable us to sup• Development Office in Chicago. a minimum disruption of rail traffic. for export. port customers' production lines In the photo at upper left, Mr. Otto The complicated but smoothly-paced Recently, Chicago Dial tallied results throughout the world." and Mr. Finch check final notes on the operation began with removal of five of the program and found they had Implosion glass (photo above, right) shipment. In back of them is the Flexi- spans by American Bridge crews. The earned the following: (1) a tenfold in• is typical of the precision glass products Van that will transport it to New York. spans had been in service for 62 years. Workers skidded three spans onto tem• porary pilings which had been built next to the old bridge. The two remaining Beech Grove Rebuilds Gondolas for Steel Shuttle spans were moved ashore by barge. In the next step, new spans—weighing A new, long-distance freight shuttle hot slabs, and the anchor chains are to the Lackawanna plant one day and be from 64 tons to 500 tons and ranging in service—planned to go into operation this keep the load from shifting. delivered by Central the next day." length from 57' to 266' — were moved STEEL FRAMEWORK on barges held spans until each was in position a few inches' month—is an excellent example of Cen• A tariff has been published for the Before slabs are loaded on the gon• into position. Three spans had been above permanent mooring. As barges filled with water, each span went into place. tral taking a close look at a shipper's new shuttle service. The tariff provides dolas at Lackawanna, it was explained, erected on falsework and temporary pil• needs . . . and then setting out to meet $5.25 a gross ton rate on the slabs in the temperature of each slab will be re• ings adjacent to the bridge. These spans those needs. movements of 800 gross tons or more. duced from 2,400 degrees Fahrenheit to were carefully rolled into place. Using specially designed gondolas, The tariff also requires that each car be somewhere between 900 and 1,200 de• The other two spans had been built Central's train crews will soon start mov• loaded with a minimum of 70 tons, or grees. Upon arrival at the finishing plant, on high steel framework attached to sev• ing hot steel slabs from New York to 140,000 pounds. the slabs will still be warm on the inside. eral big barges and were floated into Indiana. The shipments, expected to place. When the spans were in exact po• eventually become a daily service, will Arthur E. Baylis, Central's Vice Presi• Fast Delivery sition a few inches above the piers, the originate at Bethlehem Steel Corpora• dent—Marketing, stated that the Com• Mr. Baylis said that the new tariff is barges were gradually filled with water. tion's plant at Lackawanna, N. Y., for pany plans to be using between 500 and not a unit train rate. He explained that Spans went into place as barges sank. transporting to its finishing plant at Burns 600 specially equipped gondolas for the it is one of restricted volume, requiring J. J. Eash, Chief Engineer for P&LE, Harbor, Ind., a distance of 500 miles. shuttle service in the near future. He a minimum movement of about 12 cars. estimated that within 18 months the explained that the bridge modernization "This will allow movements on any of Bethlehem Steel traffic will involve move• project is part of a major construction Work at Beech Grove Central's mainline trains in order to ment of about 100 cars a day. program designed to speed and improve Crews at New York Central's Beech speed delivery of whatever type of slabs service between Pittsburgh and Youngs- Grove Car Shops, near Indianapolis, "It will be as though the Lackawanna the Burns Harbor plant may require at town, O. P&LE operates some 216 miles have been at work for some time now plant and the Burns Harbor mill were any given time," Mr. Baylis said. of line between Youngstown, Pittsburgh, equipping about 50 gondolas with floor next door to one another," Mr. Baylis By early 1965, volume is expected to Connellsville and Brownsville, Penna. cross beams and load anchor chains. The said. "Should Burns Harbor need a cer• be about 100 cars every other day, and BRIDGE CREWS prepare new span for precision movement to permanent floor beams provide ventilation for the tain type of slab, it can be ordered from 100 cars per day within 18 months. stone pier. Span was built on temporary pilings adjacent to existing pier.

10 New York Central Headlight September, 1964 11 Safety Department Memo: Eye Care Pays BIG Dividends

By John C. Buckingham, Safety Supervisor

By this time next year, another 31,800 • 153,400 youngsters are periled by eye mal lifetime. There is a right way to read Americans will never read this or any accidents each year. and a wrong way to read, and the way other printed page again—because of • Industry experiences 1,000 eye acci• you choose may determine just how tragic blindness. dents every working day. long your eyes will allow you to read it September, 1964, is the 15th annual • More than 1,355,000 Americans over without tiring. sight-saving educational campaign of the 40 years of age are threatened with Vision should be checked regularly by National Society for the Prevention of blindness from glaucoma. (This fig• an eye doctor. This is particularly impor• Blindness, Inc. During this month the ure represents adults over 40 who tant for the child about to enter school, pany 47 years, and also Society and its state affiliates strive to or the adult over 40 years of age who is served as Secretary-Treas• TWO VETERAN railroaders at Syra• have this blinding disease and half of FAMILY AND FRIENDS of Peter Paul Piccirilli (second from alert all Americans about vision-harming susceptible to the various eye ailments urer of the Metropolitan cuse are retired. Daniel E. Murphy them are unaware of it.) left) helped him celebrate his recent retirement as a Freight diseases, accidents and neglect. and problems, that go with aging. Chapter, New York Cen• (standing) served as an Engineer for • Only 10% of the 92,980 partially see• Conductor at Westchester Avenue Yard, in New York City. He Strict adherence to New York Cen• tral Veteran's Association. 51 years, 20 of them on the Pace• ing students in the nation have proper Correct Lighting Vital joined service in 1925. From left: Joseph P. Nitti, Trainmaster, tral safety rules—coupled to the applica• maker. Robert Warner has 44 years educational facilities. Hudson Div., presents Certificate of Retirement; Mr. & tion of common sense attitudes—pays Next to proper eye health, correct service, 25 of them as an Engineer. big dividends to the individual employee. • Innumerable elderly Americans could lighting is the key requirement for good Mrs. Piccirilli; Gerald Butler, Trainmaster, Harlem Div.. During 1963, there were only 13 lost- regain useful lives through cataract reading vision. This includes the proper time eye injuries on the Central System. surgery or low vision aids. amount and quality of illumination, free• Of these only one was of a serious na• Working nationally and through state dom from glare, and the posture of the ture. Total eye injuries for all industry affiliates the National Society for the reader. RECENTLY Supervisor, Grand Central Hawkins, H., Engineer, Mo• Terminal hawk Division in the U.S. averages about 1000 daily. Prevention of Blindness, Inc. (NSPB) When reading, do not limit the light• Nylander, A. G., Pipefitter, Lewis, A., Boilermaker, Bea• The challenge is to prevent blindness offers consultation, advisory services and ing to your printed materials, leaving Grand Central Terminal con Park, Mass. Regan, T. B., Messenger, Mannino, S. B., Signal Help• at every age level and the scope of this prog-rams to official and voluntary health the rest of the room dim. Sharp contrast Weehawken, N. J. er, Utica, N. Y. Wamsley, J. D., Pipefitter, Marquette, J. E., Road Brake- problem may best be illustrated by the groups, welfare agencies, industrial and between the bright page and the dark Grand Central Terminal man, Buffalo following: business firms, educational institutions, background is tiring on the eyes, so be Ward, G., Signal Maintainer, McDonald, F. A., Signal Grand Central Terminal Maintainer, Utica, N. Y. sure the room is evenly lighted while you • 405,000 Americans are already blind. civic and community groups and indi• Moore, H. T., Mason, Spring• viduals on prevention of blindness mat• read. field, Mass. EASTERN DISTRICT Nawrocke E. E., Laborer, • During 1964 another 31,800 persons ters. Further information on better eye (Compiled by Leonard H. Rose, Director of Employee Benefits) Gardenville, N. Y. will lose their sight. Nelson, D. W., Foreman, Reading the printed page—just as you health can be obtained by writing Pre• Bottazzo, C., Carman, East Clearfield, Pa. Everle, G. H., Assistant Chief, Johnson, A. J., Stevedore, Rochester vention of Blindness, Box 426, New NEW YORK DISTRICT Nevin, F. H., Assistant Chief • More than 11,600,000 school children are doing now—makes the most intense Tariff, New York New York Bullock, H. S., Clerk, Niagara Clerk, East Rochester Barlow, S. A., Supervisor, Grimm, O., Division Freight Leo, R., Machinist, Harmon, Falls, N. Y. need some form of eye care. demands on the human eye during a nor• York, N. Y. 10016. Tariff District, New York Okeefe, F. C, Sheet Metal Sales Manager, New York N. Y. DeVoe, M. J., Telephone Op• Worker, Allston, Mass. Baschnagel, A. C, Brakeman, Gunderson, P., Machinist, Mack, L. I., Assistant Fore• erator, Albany, N. Y. Kingston, N. Y. Peter, M., Laborer, Syracuse, New York man-Carman, Mott Haven, Felter, R. H., Fireman, Penn• N. Y. Dunn, A. T., District Freight Harper, L. R., Clerk, Market• N. Y. sylvania Division Salesman, New York Shaw, H. E., Accountant, ing, New York Mitchell, F. H., Red Cap Grosse, A., Clerk, Buffalo Utica, N. Y. Sprague, H. D., Sr., Engineer, Mohawk Division Credit Union Has The Secret of Railroading Stall, P. A., Foreman, Pitts- field, Mass. An ellipse measuring about 3/4 inch This means that a 100-car train, made Steward, G. F., Laborer, De Witt, N. Y. 5 Unclaimed Funds by /8 inch—is the area on the rail that up of 100-ton capacity cars weighing Szewczyk, M. A., Laborer, Buffalo Division a railroad car wheel touches at any one over-all 26.3 million pounds and stretch• Watts, W. R., Conductor, time. ing more than a mile long, is supported Buffalo Wright, C. R., Inspector, De At New York City This is the "secret" of a railroad's at any given moment on an area totaling Witt, N. Y. innate ability to transport huge tonnages only 294.4 square inches (or, a little Each year the Grand Central Termi• at high speeds with a relatively small more than two square feet). WESTERN DISTRICT nal Employes Federal Credit Union in amount of power consumption. Thus, the surface friction that must Binnis, R. L., Machinist, Col- New York must publish names of share• Under today's regulations, each tiny be overcome—where the wheels meet the lingwood, Ohio holders who are "among the missing." Boor, S. C, Signal Foreman, ellipse can bear a maximum load of rails—is insignificant compared to the Erie Division The Credit Union and the State Bank• 32,875 pounds. vast loads that can be hauled over them. Brown, W. R., Truck Driver, Cleveland ing Department—through statutes of the The stresses built up in the rail as the Can any other mode of transportation Buffington, A. M., Switch• State of New York—requires reporting man, Air Line Jet, Ohio wheel moves along are similar to those come even close to matching these basic Farman, G. A., Electrician, of accounts that have been inactive for that would be caused by a succession of engineering advantages, this "secret" of Collingwood Diesel Shop 10 years or over. Individuals holding Fillo, D., Conductor, Toledo, blows with a 16-ton sledge hammer. railroad efficiency? Ohio these accounts have not responded to Fisher, I. F., Scale Inspector, Elkhart, Ind. inquiries by the Credit Union. If still Gibbs, D., Coal Chute Fore• unclaimed 30 days after names are pub• McEvoy, 1393 Second Ave., also New man, Englewood, Ill. Horan, F. J., Yardmaster, lished, such accounts must be turned York City. If your name is on the list or Collingwood, Ohio over to the state banking authorities. The if you have any information concerning Tops In Safety Jorzak, P., Freight Car Clean• 52 YEARS OF SERVICE were honored at retirement GUESTS OF HONOR at the retirement luncheon held er, Cleveland money then becomes the property of the present whereabouts of these depositors, Statistics show that the average trav• Kelley, E. H., Secretary, Chi• of Conductor Leo J. Hoffman (left). Mr. Hoffman recently at Syracuse were Mr. and Mrs. Glenn E. cago State of New York. please contact the Grand Central Credit eler in 1963 could journey without fatal Kevill, T. A., Loader, Toledo, worked for 20 years of his total service as a Con• Metcalf. Mr. Metcalf's entire railroad career has The shareholders and their last known Union, Room D-41, Grand Central Ter• accident nearly 1,400,000,000 miles by Ohio ductor on and on the 20th been at Syracuse. He entered service there in 1923 Kubeja, E. W., Machinist In• address are: John J. Cowen, 614 Second minal Building, 15 Vanderbilt Ave., New train—1.67 times as far as by airplane spector, Collingwood Loco• Century between Buffalo and New York. At right as a clerk at the Freight Terminal. He has been motive Terminal Ave., New York City; and Robert York 10017. and 31 times as far as by auto or taxi. Lacumsky, A. A., Carpenter, is D. R. Powers, Stationmaster at Syracuse. Supervisor of Budgets & Statistics since 1953. Port Clinton, Ohio 12 New York Central Headlight September, 1964 13 Dimension Loads Letters Bring Pats on the Back for NYC People Centralines (from page 6) A traveling business official and his and Mr. Collins, Clerk in the Dining & having some production problems and but the value might be just as much or wife are enthusiastic in their praise of Department, are cited in a that they were running behind in ship• more than that of a dimension load. the Central personnel they encountered letter of commendation by the grateful ments over to Grand Central. It often costs thousands of dollars on a recent trip to Chicago. Wrote the lady. "Some of the shipments would have merely to examine a large transformer The next "Get-Together Alumni at Tarrytown, N. Y., recently served as official: "Your ticket seller, Miss Jose• "These men have sold New York been delayed had not your Baggage to determine the extent of damage. Luncheon" for retired employes of the a leader for 10 Boy Scouts at the Phil- phine K. Covell, waited on us. Her cour• Central's travel accommodations to me Room employees given us special atten• Damage to dimension shipments can District Auditor of Expenditures' Office mont Scout Ranch, near Cimarron, New tesy and helpfulness, I am sure, was in a way that the most sophisticated ad• tion and expeditious handling of our be avoided if the explicit routing in• at Detroit will be held Thursday, October Mexico. Mr. Timmons is Assistant Dis• beyond her normal duties. She is a dis• vertising campaign never could . . . and shipments. They did an excellent job and structions on waybills are followed. At 8. Time: 1 p.m. Place: Carl's Chop trict Commissioner of the Washington tinct asset to you and reflects your it is with this in mind that I want to we want to take this opportunity to give times, the waybill may become separated House, Detroit. Topic for discussion will Irving Council at Tarrytown. capabilities of selecting personnel. The bring this incident to your attention," them special commendation for a job from the car. When this occurs, a memo be the Townsend Plan. For further de• * * * personnel on Train No. 90 were the she said. well done." tails, contact Norman J. Nicolay, 10387 waybill is issued to move the car. How• height of politeness and tact." Two New York Central men have ever, sometimes the memo waybill may Orangelawn, Detroit 48204. "My wife and I will do our future Joseph Bryk, Acting Trainmaster at A couple from Rhode Island who had been elected to serve as committee chair• not contain either the dimensions or the traveling by train whenever possible and Harmon, N. Y., is the subject of a warm traveled on the States men of the Association of American routing instructions. will inform others of the wonderful serv• letter of praise written by a passenger from Boston to Chicago writes: "We The HEADLIGHT was visited recently Railroads. The new chairman of the If yard or road forces have any doubt ice we received while traveling on the who had lost a briefcase containing im• were delighted and well pleased with the by Reb Russell, retired boxing AAR's Accounting Division is NYC's about an oversize load for which the New York Central System. portant and irreplaceable files. service ... we received very of the New York Central. His many Comptroller R. E. Kappauf. New original waybill is not available, they "I reported the loss to your Mr. Bryk sincere and courteous service . . . the food friends and former co-workers will be chairman of the Committee on Freight call the Chief Dispatcher and ask for the A couple from Waukesha, Wise, cele• and he went into action at once," the was well served ... it was excellent." pleased to know that he is "happily re• Accounts is E. T. Scheper, Central's route. They do not take a chance and brating their 25th wedding anniversary passenger wrote. "Within two hours, he tired and enjoying excellent health." Reb Auditor of Freight Revenues at Detroit. move these large loads until the proper with a trip to Niagara Falls, said that gave me the welcome information that In his letter of commendation, a com• was the professional name for Louis * * route is obtained. they will always remember the courteous the case had been located and was on its muter from Marble Hill, N. Y., writes: Regoni, who retired last year after 47 Moving these large and valuable ship• The 19th Annual Reunion of the treatment by a Central employee they way to Harmon where I picked it up the "I ride the 6:17 p.m. train to Marble years' service as New York Central's ments carefully over the rails and 'baby• Military Railway Service Veterans will met on the train. Lieut. Walter Leslie, next day. Mr. Bryk's helpfulness is an• Hill, and the Conductor is C. E. Taylor. Police Sergeant at Chicago. He won the ing' them to their destination makes be held Sept. 18-20 at the Hotel Statler of the Central Police Department, and other indication of the courteous atti• He is very well-liked by all the passen• boxing title in 1928 at Ashtabula, O., in satisfied customers for the Central and Hilton in New York City. For further his wife were also on the train. The tude New York Central people have gers because of his cheerfulness, coop• the last System-wide tournament. assures that all shippers, including ship• information, contact: Earl Steuber, officer learned that the couple would not toward the public." eration and the personal touch he adds pers of dimension loads, get "Quality Room 409, Penn Station - 30th St., be able to make bus connections when when taking care of his routine busi• Transportation" service. ^ Jim Timmons, Assistant Trainmaster Philadelphia 4, Penna. they arrived. Lieut. W. F. Greer, of the Central's ness." "Lieut. Leslie and his good wife drove Police Force at Utica, is the proud pos• From a Wall Street attorney: "Be• us to the Falls and showed us points of sessor of several letters of thanks from cause of its convenience, I took the 20th interest along the way," the couple said. school children and their teachers. Lieut. Century Limited to Chicago and back Daetwyler, T., Head Clerk, Keffer, A. L., Laborer, Pitts• "We are indeed grateful to them for their Greer took the students and the teachers on a recent business trip. The trip was — (from page 13) Pittsburgh burgh RECENTLY RETIRED Evans, R. E., Trainman, Kettering, G. A., Yard Brake- kindness and consideration." on tours of the station and nearby rail• restful and pleasant, and I was particu• Newell, Pa. man, Youngstown, Ohio Havrilla, G., Brakeman, Mc- Morris, S., Trainman, Ali- road facilities. larly impressed by the superb quality of Lutz, J., Machinist, Collin- Miller, L. E., Fireman, Ohio INDIANA Keesport, Pa. quippa, Ohio wood Diesel Shop Central Division Hunter, J. D., Laborer, East Paul, P. C, Blacksmith Help• Leo Cunningham and R. P. Collins A third-grader summed up his feelings the meals and the service. This is the McGuree, A. C, Engineer, Pence, W. L., Baggageman, HARBOR BELT Youngstown, Ohio er, McKees Rocks, Pa. helped a lady passenger recover a prized . . . "I learned how to buy my own first letter of this nature I have written Erie Division Springfield, Ohio Johnson, J. J., Trainman, Shoaf, N. A., Warehouseman, Morgel, F. A., Machinist, Col- Petit, R. L., Pipefitter, India• Childs, O. M., Clerk, Gibson, East Youngstown, Ohio Braddock, Pa. photograph she had lost on the 20th tickets. I found out about Flexi-Van, to a railroad, but I thought the New linwood Diesel Shop napolis Ind. Century Limited before arriving at Chi• lockers, the post office "on wheels and York Central should know that one of Perkins, A., Car Cleaner, Price, H., Lamptender, La• Dermody, J. L., Chief Yard Cleveland fayette, Ind. Clerk, Gibson, Ind. cago. Mr. Cunningham, of the Lost and the bomb shelter. I liked the bulletin its passengers appreciated and enjoyed Ritt, P. J., Switchman, En• Roell, B. A., Electrician, Frosch, H. F., Switchman, glewood, Ill. Beech Grove Car Shop Blue Island, Ill. Found Office at LaSalle Street Station, board and the baggage room. I liked the the excellence of its dining car service." Stover, P. J., Clerk, Cleveland Sorden, C. E., Engine House McCarthy, J. J., Switchman, train ride best of all." Studinger, E. W., General Foreman, Dickinson, W. Blue Island, Ill. Clerk, Chicago Va. Skalafuris, J. T., Machinist, The officer had been to several schools Sullivan, J. J., Yard Clerk. Spoon, R. W., Blacksmith, Franklin Park, Ill. Cleveland Beech Grove Locomotive in the area, talked to groups of students, Tamsett, S., Cleaner, Cleve• Shop and showed safety films. His visits are land Storckman, R. L., Engine PITTSBURGH & Visconty, V. A., Clerk, Not• Dispatcher, Mt. Carmel, Ill. designed to impress the children with the tingham, Ohio Switzer, F. X., Fireman, West LAKE ERIE Wessel, W. T., Checker, Cleve• Columbus, Ohio dangers of trespassing on railroad prop• land Ward, C. G., Brakeman, Cin• Brown, C. J., Trainman, East erty, playing in or around railroad facili• Whetstone, G. M., Engineer, cinnati, Ohio Youngstown, Ohio Minerva, Ohio Coyne, M. C, Cleaner, Pitts• ties, and the seriousness of throwing burgh NORTHERN DISTRICT rocks at any railroad equipment.

SOUTHERN DISTRICT Benish, A. J., Head Clerk, Detroit A passenger from Iron wood, Mich., Armstrong, E. J., Car Inspec• Boughner, S. H., Laborer, has written about the courteous conduct tor, Mattoon, Ill. Tillsonburg, Ont. Byers, M. L., Chief Time• Doty, C. F., Yardmaster, Bay of Peter J. Smyth, a member of the train keeper, Indianapolis City, Mich. crew on No. 27. Eckman, J. C, Laborer, Bowl• Gardner, W., Laborer, Detroit ing Green, Ohio Haggerty, H. M., Clerk, De• "Mr. Smyth made a very favorable Eusey, F. M., Yardmaster, troit Galion, Ohio Haverly, W. A., Custodian, impression on all passengers with his Froman, C. T., Conductor, Detroit pleasant manners and helpfulness. I wish Mt. Carmel, Ill. Irvine, M. E., Clerk, Detroit Frymier, J. A., Conductor, Larson, S. A., Comptometer very much to commend Mr. Smyth to Bellefontaine, Ohio Operator, Detroit COURTESY AWARD of $25 Savings Bond you. He made the trip so pleasant and CLEVELAND CEREMONY honors Jerry Greifenkamp, H. M., Tele• Marry, B. C., Assistant Head GAZETTE PHOTO phone Operator, Cincinnati, Clerk, Detroit is presented New York Central Patrolman interesting." O'Connor, Conductor on "The Chicagoan," Ohio Pyatt, J. M., Timekeeper, St. Hudson, C. W., Engineer, Thomas, Ont. DANIEL T. SHELDON retired AFTER 52 YEARS behind the grille, William A. Andrew Miller by John J. Danhof, Jr., named winner of monthly customer courtesy Thompson, L. N., Accountant Ohio Division after almost 49 years. He was Brady has retired. He entered service in 1911 Jackson, M. F., Laborer, Examiner, Detroit Superintendent of the Hudson Division. Baggage personnel at Grand Central program. Presenting the $25 Savings Bond Beech Grove Car Shop Turney, E., Brakeman, De• an Engineer on No. 90, "The at Union Station, Worcester, Mass., moved to Officer Miller—whose beat is Grand Cen• Terminal have earned the gratitude of an courtesy award is Donald B. Ingold (rt). Jarman, E.A., Laborer, Ivon, troit Ill. Wilson, H. M., Clerk, Detroit Chicagoan," and on No. the ticket booth in 1912. Station is operated by tral Terminal—has been cited by numerous official from The New York Times. The Western Dist. Transportation Supt., and Larson, W. E., Engineer, Wilson, V. T., Agent, Wayne, Boston & Albany Division of the Central. Ohio Central Division Mich. 15, "." passengers for his acts of courtesy. official explained that his paper had been Eugene L. Keller, Western Div. Supt.

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