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Central Opens New Crew Facilities at Gardenville MARCH, 1954 Central Opens New Crew Facilities At Gardenville The Central's newest railroad YMCA and dormitory for engine and train crews has been completed at Garden• ville, N. Y., near Buffalo. The concrete block structure, with in• terior walls faced in marble of various shades, was opened with ceremonies at• tended by NYC officials and YMCA rep• resentatives. F. A. Dawson, Vice President & Gen• eral Manager, Line East, and R. H. Mc- Graw, General Manager, Line West, were the principal speakers after an opening prayer by L. E. Baldwin, Gen• eral Executive of the YMCA. Building is run by YMCA The building is being operated by the Y under the direction of J. S. Burrell, recently appointed General Secretary in charge of railroad branches of the Y in Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Suspension Bridge, N.Y., as well as Gardenville. The new dormitory has 53 bedrooms, ROLLING over hump at Gibson, Ind., yard of Indiana Harbor Belt, refrigerator car tests plus showers, recreation rooms, dining new scale built into hump track. Car weight is recorded automatically in scale house. room and kitchen to serve NYC freight crews laying over after runs from both east and west of Gardenville, one of the New Scale Speeds IHB Yard Work Central's principal classification yards. Construction and preliminary tests front of the scale house. One is the regu• Includes new dispatcher's office have been completed on a new 300-ton- lar hump track; the other is the scale Also included in the building is a capacity, 92-foot-long track scale built track. crew dispatcher's office with a new in• into the west-bound hump of the Indi• When a car is to be weighed, the oper• ter-communications system. With the ana Harbor Belt Railroad's freight yard ator in the scale house pushes a button to new system, the crew dispatcher can at Gibson, Ind. The scale is expected to switch the car to the scale track. That's simply flick a switch to open a direct be placed in full-time service late this all he has to do. As the car rolls over the connection with any individual bedroom month. track, without any interruption in the or the recreation or dining rooms. This Previously, cars to be weighed at Gib• regular classification of cars, it activates avoids the necessity of sending a mes• son were assembled in a separate string the scale mechanism. The scale, in turn, senger to call crews. after humping and switched to a scale starts an automatic printer in the scale The new dormitory is the third part of at the yard's outer edge. With the new house which records the date, car a three-phase project modernizing the scale, cars can be weighed as they roll weight (gross and tare), number, initials Central's facilities at Gardenville. Ear• over the hump and their weight and and contents. Without stopping, the car lier a number of track changes were other data are recorded by an automatic rolls on into the first retarder at the base made in the yard and a new diesel loco• printer in the scale house. of the hump and then to the proper motive fueling station and fuel storage There are two tracks immediately in classification track. depot were constructed there. CONCERNING THE CENTRAL Safe Railroaders Get Awards Lake Erie had 9.51, and Boston & Al• The Central's President emphasized bany had 10.41. Except for switching that the railroads do not seek to do Certificates of commendation are of second and third places by CR&I and away with all regulation. Their objec• now being distributed by NYC's Safety IHB, these districts also held the same tions are raised only to regulations department to all conductors, yard- respective positions in the previous which are outmoded and regulations masters, freight station foremen and year. which go beyond the public interest. checkers who, with the crews under Except for Michigan Central, Line Despite a wall of outmoded regula• their jurisdiction, suffered no report• East and Boston & Albany all districts tions, he pointed out, the nation's rail• able injuries in 1951 or 1952. Complete in 1953 had better ratios than in the roads in the last eight years have individual records for 1953 will not be previous year. invested nearly $9,000,000,000 in im• available for several months. provements to their motive power, roll• The certificates express the Cen• January Shows Deficit ing stock and other facilities. This tral's appreciation and congratulations investment, he added, demonstrates the In January "things were tough all to the individuals receiving them and railroads' faith in America's economic over," as the saying goes. The general to the men whom they represent. future and "especially faith that the decline in industrial production re• When individual records for 1953 are artificial obstacles in the path of rail• duced railroad traffic sharply. For the completed, similar certificates will be road prosperity would be removed." Central this meant a drop of more than awarded to those who turned in per• "In part," he continued, "that faith $9 million in operating revenues for the fect safety performances for that year. still remains to be vindicated. For the month, compared with January, 1952. The System's over-all safety record serious handicaps of outmoded regula• Because costs on a railroad can never improved slightly in 1953 over 1952. tion and unequal competitive oppor• be trimmed as rapidly as revenues de• The ratio of on-the-job injuries per tunities which beset the railroads eight cline, the lower volume of business re• million man hours worked in 1953 was years ago are, for the most part still sulted in a January net deficit for the 9.33, compared with 9.99 in 1952. with us." Central of $2,762,696. Best 1953 safety record among the "Fair play," Mr. White told the trans• larger components of the System was portation and traffic men, "would elim• turned in by Michigan Central with a Baggage Transfer Extended inate the unreasonable delay which at• ratio of 7.14. Big Four was second with As a further aid to passengers mak• tends general freight rate adjustments. 7.83. Line West was next with 8.57. ing connections with other railroads at It would restore to railroad manage• followed by Line East with 11.31. Chicago, NYC has extended its luggage ment the right to exercise more of These districts held the same respec• transfer service to include connections its own business judgment. It would tive positions in 1952. with trains of the Burlington Route. recognize that users of transportation Among the smaller segments of the NYC westbound passengers arriving facilities built with public monies must System, Peoria & Eastern led with a at LaSalle Street Station in Chicago pay their fair share of the cost of using ratio of 1.64, followed by Chicago River on the Twentieth Century Limited or those facilities for commercial pur• & Indiana with 4.35. Indiana Harbor the Commodore Vanderbilt may have poses." Belt was next with 6.31. Pittsburgh & their baggage picked up at the train And he added, "had these rules of and delivered to their accommodations fair play been in effect during the past on any of five Burlington trains leav• eight years, or any considerable por• ing for the west from Union Station. tion of that time, I can assure you that The same service is available to east- railroad improvements carried out to bound passengers making connections give better service to you and our with the Century or Commodore. A other customers would have been much charge of 50 cents per suitcase is made more than $9,000,000,000." to cover the cost of the transfer. The transfer service has previously More Big Four Offices Move been in effect for NYC passengers making connections with certain trains As a further step in the transfer of of the Santa Fe, North Western and Big Four District headquarters from Rock Island railroads. Cincinnati to Indianapolis, four more departments have moved to the latter Fair Play Asked for Railroads city. The Signal, Maintenance of Way, "Strike the shackles of outmoded District Engineer and Police Headquar• regulation from the railroads and they ters departments have moved into will do an even better job of meeting space in the Big Four Building at 105 the nation's growing transportation S. Meridian St., Indianapolis. The needs." space was formerly occupied by the of• This assertion was made by NYC's fices of the General Manager, Auditor President, William White, in an address and Division Engineer of the Peoria & before the 47th annual dinner of the Eastern Railway. The P&E offices have FAMOUS CLOCK on Grand Central Ter• Traffic Club of Chicago. been moved to the Lemcke Building, minal's information booth is returned to its Mr. White urged his listeners to 106 E. Market St., Indianapolis. place by workmen after undergoing ex• "help us get the handcuffs off" on the The Big Four offices were moved to tensive repairs at plant of Self-Winding basis of "your own interest in getting Indianapolis to provide a more cen• Clock Co. in Brooklyn, N. Y. It ran 41 years the best possible transportation at the trally located operating headquarters in the Terminal without major overhaul. lowest possible cost." for the district. Page 2 New York Central Headlight Employe Blood Bank to Open Drive The third annual blood donor cam• paign of the New York Central-Pull• man Employes Blood Bank of New York will get under way April 1.
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