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18 MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD MAGAZINE MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD MAGAZINE 19 r----------------------- ----------------------- i Mostly About Waterville Challenge Bowling Brings Response j At mparts From ! This Season Portland —• j The bowling season is now well under way; it prom• tion to the forty bowlers, there is always a big gathering ises to be the best in history. of spectators, who enjoy the spirited fun. Engine 623 in the Rigby Yard The Maine Central General Office Bowling League— The make-up of the teams is as follows: consisting of eight teams, of three men and two women Engineer Robert Presnell in Cab. Foreground, Left to Right—Arthur Martin; G. H. Garrison, Geneaal Foreman; I. P. each—was organized at the beginning of the 1922-1923 SANDY RIVERS Whittemore, A. J. Olson, Robert Lombard, Coleman Connelly, Dudley Andrews, Irving Kay. bowling season. It finished a schedule of twenty-one weeks, with the teams closely grouped at its end; and the H. Malloy, Mrs. Neil Smith, Miss Mildred Sweet, season was a great success, all of the bowlers, women as Neil Smith and Raymond Hennigar. well as men, greatly enjoying the weekly sessions. This, the 1923-1924 season, began in the same way KENNEBAGOS (Technical ©eatrtptton of Kighu, ufermtnal about four weeks ago; and there will be a twenty-one The following technical description of equip• trains for points on the Boston & Maine; also week schedule, which means that the sport will continue H. Wilson, Miss Grace Noyes, Miss Mildred Libby, ment and the make-up of trains—of interest to the regular through service via the M. C until April. There are some mighty good bowlers in D. lleiskell and Malcolm Allen. railroad men—has been written for the Maine Mountain Division, making close connections the league—both men and women; and the teams are Central Railroad Magazine by one who intimately with the Grand Trunk, Canadian Pacific and neck-and-neck, shifting their positions in the standing knows the Rigby terminal: western points. BRIDGTON AND SACOS Rigby Freight Terminal is divided into sec• • * * • • weekly. tions—the westbound yard, where all freight A session is held each Friday night in Souviney's Cecil Beane, Miss Marion Sleeper, Miss Rose Langlais, trains from the Portland and Mountain Divisions The Portland Terminal Co. has taken over the of the Maine Central and from the WN&P operation of what was the Boston & Maine new recreation rooms on Congress Street. And, in addi• H. Oberg and John McCullum. Division of the Boston & Maine are received, and Rigby Tower, located at Scarboro Crossing, and freight trains for the Portland and WN&P this is now known as "Tower One." On account Divisions of the B & M and Mountain Division of the additional interlocking and signals, the of the M. C. start; the eastbound yard, where machines at this tower have been greatly en• freight trains from the Portland Division of larged. the Boston & Maine are received and trains for At the east end of the yard, near Skunk Hill the east over the Portland Division of the Maine Bridge, is a new tower known as "Tower Two," Central start. from which all the main line switches and signals at the east end of the yard are handled. The yard repair tracks are operated day and There is a new tower on Fore River Bridge, night, and such repairs made to freight equip• known as "Tower Three," to handle all switches ment as can be handled where the work is of a and signals in connection with the junction of character not requiring heavy shop repairs. This the Mountain Division and Portland Division at in itself will be very helpful in prompt handling that point. of freight. A new tower at the west end of Union Station Trains arriving from the different routes have Yard is known as "Tower Four" and here the usually a miscellaneous lot of freight consigned freight main tracks and passenger main tracks to various points. These cars are sorted or come together. classified into groups of solid trains for certain All these towers, and Tower Five at Brighton destinations. Avenue crossing, are modern, equipped with pri• Trains with freight for points between Bangor vate branch telephones and manned by experi• and Vanceboro, including Washington County, enced telegraph men. They also are equipped Bar Harbor, Bucksport, together with freight with the train dispatching wires of all routes properly grouped for points in Aroostook County affected, so it is possible to keep in close touch run via Northern Maine Junction. with the trains and be prepared to handle with For instance, trains run for Vanceboro with the least amount of delay or interference. freight for points in the Provinces. ***** There are trains for Waterville, including cars The handling of Maine Central Mountain Div• for Skowhegan, Belfast, Harmony, Foxcroft ision and Boston and Maine WN&P Division at Branches and for main line points between Rigby necessitated a new connection from the Waterville and Northern Maine Junction. Mountain Division to the old Western route, Trains for Rumford and local cars for various and a double track has been built across Fore points along the line. River for this purpose. Trains for Boston, including cars for Boston Mountain Division passenger trains that have & Albany Railroad. in the past been hauled into Portland via Trains for Lowell, including freight for Rhode Thompson's Point and doable track through to Island points on the New Haven Road. Cumberland Mills are now handled over the Trains for Worcester, including freight for WN&P Route between Cumberland Mills and points in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Harlem Deering Junction, and over the Portland Division A Group of the Maine Central General Office Bowling League, Taken by Flashlight River and Southern states. between Deering Junction and Portland Union Trains for Mechanicville, and the usual local Station. At Souviney's Recreation Rooms. Photo by C. E. Pratt, South Portland 20 MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD MAGAZINE MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD MAGAZINE 21 RANGELEYS MP" &tafforo $0rtlano M. Of. A. Carl Baldwin, Miss Violetta Macumber, Miss Hazel Continued from Page 9 Marshall, Bliss Eadon and H. Bucklin. A QJhallenge Continued from Page 8 MEGANTICS had to be replenished six or eight times between Bangor accepted within a few hours. Nevertheless, the playing Editor, Maine Central Magazine: and St. John. In short, he began in the days when rail• of dominoes is good sport, and in this Y. M. C. A. a great O. Bonney, Miss Frances Moran, Miss Madeline Please enter a challenge in be• roading was picturesque, and some of his experiences deal is made of it, thus giving the Portland railroad men Walsh, Charles Mills and George Foster. half of the Waterville Engineers will make interesting reading in an early issue. But the a certain unique distinction. Last winter there was a first question asked him by a representative of the Maine tournament, six games being played once a week; and SOMERSETS to any other departments, for a Central Railroad Magazine related to the danger from the big assembly room was filled with interested spectators. Roy Shaw, Mrs. Roy Shaw, Miss Marguerite Holly• bowling contest, five men to a reckless automobilists at grade crossings—the best way Another tournament is to begin soon—probably by the wood, Eddie Nagle and Hcrmon Stover. team. to learn the viewpoint of the men in the cabs being to time this issue of the Maine Central Railroad Magazine ask one of them. reaches its readers. Among the uncommonly good OQUOSSOCS Yours truly, "Well, the danger hasn't been exaggerated," said players are Thomas Foss, Charles Lord, Edward Collins JAMES CLARK, C. Dodge, Miss Ruth Mangum, Miss Elura Berry, Mr. Stafford. "I've had some experiences myself that and Harry Waterman, freight handlers; Roy Shepard, Clayton Waite and John Goud. Engineer. you'd hardly believe possible. Sometimes I've seen I. H. Swett, R. A. Spaulding, George Copcland, H. II. automobilists deliberately race the train, get to the track Freeze, C. J. Cayford, M. S. Williams, Frank Downs WASHINGTON COUNTIES This challenge was communi• ahead of it, clear it by not more than two feet—and then and William Webber, roadmen. turn around to wave in triumph at the engineer. They There have been problems in the past two years, Walter Talbot, Miss Methel Packard, Miss Helen cated to the Maine Central Gen• don't care, or perhaps don't realize, that that same engineer Meserve, H. Caldwell and Ben Goss. but Secretary Harding has faced them squarely—and, eral Office Bowling League, bring• and his firemen have been through a few seconds of thus far, successfully. When so many roadmen were ing the following response: perfect hell. Of course there are days—sometimes long transferred to Thompson's Point, after the roundhouse -am— Editor, Maine Central Magazine: intervals—when nothing of the sort happens; but most fire, he established an automobile service that made it engineers have some such experience an average of once possible for those who had made the Y. M. C. A. their league §>tanoutg In reply to the challenge of the or twice a week. home to remain there. A modest car ran from the Y. Waterville Engineers, I hereby ac• £83» cept in behalf of the Maine Cen• The league standing as the Maine Central Railroad "No engineer can stop his train every time he sees . - - ——- ---------------- i Magazine goes to press is: tral General Office Team. We will an automobile approaching a crossing. If he did, the Won Lost P.C. bowl one game in Waterville on passengers would think him crazy. On the other hand, Bridgton-Sacos 15 5 .750 Jan.

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