Teamwork all very well to have courage and It is all very well to fight for fame, skill The collier Suffolk, first steamer to discharge coal at Wharf No. 4 is shown But the cause is a bigger need, tied up alongside the dock inaugurating service at Turner's Island nd it's fine to be counted a star, And what you do for the good of the the single deed with its touch of game thrill Counts more than the flash of speed; •oesn't tell us the man you are; New C°al Dock Completed there's no lone hand in the game It's the long, long haul and the dreary we play, grind, Portland Terminals Newest development i'e must work to a bigger scheme; Where the stars but faintly gleam, I the thing that counts in the world And it's leaving all thought of self on Waterfront Gives Company the Best today behind 5 how do you pull with the team? Facilities in the Harbor That fashions a winning team. D URING the past eight months at Three is finished. The first Pulpwood Turner's Island, South Portland, on Boat, the Norwegian motorship "To• :y may sound your praise and may the banks of Fore River, close to its ledo," arrived on October 18th from call you great, You may think it fine to be praised mouth where it enters Portland Har• Sundsvall, Sweden, and discharged 'hey may single you out for fame, for skill, bor, has been developed a modern coal her first cargo of 800 tons of baled : you must work with your running But a greater thing to do discharging wharf. pulp from the Baltic at the new wharf. mate Is to set your mind and set your will This new development, a result of The coal discharging plant on »r never you'll win the game; On the goal that's just in view; the waterfront fire in September, 1929, Wharf Number Four, formerly located never the work of life is done It's helping your fellow man to score is a part of the $2,000,000 construc• at Wharf Number One is now located ly the man with a-selfish dream, tion project of the Portland Terminal about three-fourths of a mile distant the battle is lost or the battle is When his chances hopeless seem, Company and its completion marks on the opposite shore above the bridge won It's forgetting self till the game is o'er the second development, Pier Number on what is known in the Terminal as >y the spirit of the team. And fighting for the team. One above the Portland-South Port• Turner's Island. land Highway Bridge having been in The wharf itself is 610 feet long and operation several weeks. is equipped with two coal discharging At the present writing on October towers loading into cars on three 17th, Wharf Number One has been tracks having a capacity of 100 cars. used only for the discharge of china These towers are as fast as any yet clay into the new steel 800 foot ware• constructed and have a maximum house, a temporary arrangement until capacity of 1,200 tons an hour and an construction work at Wharf Number average hourly capacity of 500 tons. 1 M. C. R. R. EMPLOYEES' MAGAZINE The total yearly capacity working Each tower is equipped with a three eight hours a day, 300 days per year is ton coal bucket which operates on a Wharf Number Four--Turner's Island 1,200,000 tons. boom swinging over the ship hatches. The switching of empty and loaded The coal is hoisted from the ship's coal cars is via Rigby Terminal, a dis• hold in the buckets vertically and tance of one and one-half miles. The swings on a carrier, discharging in• old Eastern Division drawbridge to hoppers, thence into cars directly which formerly connected Turner's underneath. Island on the South Portland shore The trolley with its bucket under with Portland was demolished and the favorable operating conditions while channel was dredged to a depth of 30 breaking down can be operated in ex• feet at mean low tide. The new dock cess of four trips per minute with about permits the docking and undocking of 3 tons of coal, which results in an ex• the largest boats in the Portland trade. cavating capacity of approximately Ample facilities are provided for haul• 1,200 tons per hour. Only one man is ing the outgoing loaded required to operate the cars and the incoming levers in the tower and empties and assuring The New Coal Dis• when a boat is dis• the prompt loading and charging Towers charging, three shifts unloading of boats. located at Turner's are worked. Powerful The entire develop• Island and desig• flood lights are used at ment which was carried nated as Portland night when a ship is out on plans prepared Terminal Wharf unloading. under the general di• Number Four will Carl B. Mclntire, rection of Chief Engi• speed up service in Superintendent of neer Asa H. Morrill, many ways. Wharves, is in charge and Resident Engineer of this new develop• J. B. Trumbull, pro• ment and makes fre• vides for the most efficient and ex• quent trips back and forth between peditious operation. The large towers his headquarters at Wharf One and seem to work with almost human Turner's Island. intelligence. Construction work at Wharf Num• The first steamer to discharge its ber Three at the present time is being cargo at the new wharf was the collier held up pending arrival of several Suffolk from Norfolk on September wood pulp boats, but it is hoped this 29th. On that date the collier docked new wharf on the opposite shore will at the plant and discharged 8,000 tons be completed by February 1st. of coal for the Company. On the opposite page are The two coal discharging towers photos of Wharf No. 4 were erected by the Mead-Morrison taken altering construction Company of Boston. These movable • also completed dock as it • towers which take the coal directly is to-day. Recent photos from the ships to cars, run on tracks of Wharf No. 1 are repro• 400 feet long and are steam driven. duced on page 9. 6 M. C. R. R. EMPLOYEES' MAGAZINE M. C. R. R. EMPLOYEES' MAGAZINE 7 New Equipment on "The Gull FoR the still greater comfort of These new cars, modern in every de• passengers travelling between New tail, made their first trips from Boston England and the Maritime Provinces on October 24th. the Passenger Traffic Department an• The new Buffet Lounge cars because nounces the addition of new Buffet they are luxurious "club rooms on Lounge cars of improved type and wheels," have been named "The new sleeping cars embodying added Algonquin Club" and "The Garrison comforts for night travel, recently put Club," after the famous Boston and in service on trains 71 and 8, "The Canadian clubs. Gull," fast flyer between Boston, The appointments of "The Algon• Portland and the Maritime Provinces. quin Club" and "The Garrison Club" provide an extreme in rail comfort. Gray-green mohair divans and lounge chairs match tinted walls. Shaded lights on end tables flank the divans. At one end of the car is a card nook. Tastefully figured rugs cover the floors. Ash trays for women passen• gers and smoking stands for men are liberally distributed in the lounge. A buffet with soft-drink and light-lunch facilities is also provided. Improved ventilation features in• clude a series of fans insuring a con• stant flow of pure air into the car with powerful exhaust fans discharging at opposite ends. The ladies' retiring room has all the conveniences of a home boudoir. The men's room with seats and chairs finished in luxurious This shows a section of the new night leather, embodies new features in Buffet-Lounge section of the new luxurious "club rooms on wheels' travel facilities now available on "The train service. Eight sections of upper ceiling lights of a Japanese-lantern regular fare. The day coaches, which Gull." Two buffet-lounge cars and and lower berth sleeping facilities two new ultra-modern berth cars are type, and an individual shaded light will be placed in service on "The Fly• now in service. Note that the conven• occupy one end of the lounge cars. In at each berth. ing Yankee" and "The Pine Tree tional dome lights on the ceiling and these there is lighting equipment new The new lounge cars and the new that the old-type inverted wall lights to Pullman night travel. Instead of Limited" on their fast daily runs be-' at the various sections have been re• sleeping cars for "The Gull" will be the time-honored ceiling dome lights tween Boston, Portland and other placed in the new cars by a Japanese followed shortly by arrival of new de and small lights inserted in the car lantern effect and by individual shaded luxe day coaches, providing passen• points in Maine, are expected to be in lights in each section. wall, th6 new cars have decorative gers with de luxe accommodations at service by the first of next year. 8 M. C. R. R. EMPLOYEES' MAGAZINE Wharf Number One, Portland Terminal Thirty Seven Million Hushels are a Lot of Spuds 1 HE potatoes are moving again, York, for example. Our 53,648 car• and it may be of interest to the loads would give every inhabitant of Family to know how important a that great state almost four bushels feature of our business the "spud" of the best potatoes grown.