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December, 1955 3 Milwaukee Road to Carry 2,000 on Rose Bowl Specials Making Christmas For Others Each year, as the activities of the approaching holi­ day season build to a climax, I am impressed again by the fact that railroads and railroad people are very much a part of it all. his gratifying to realize, too, that the public recognizes the work of railroaders as necessary to the "making of Christmas". As this is read, the task will be largely completed for this year. The mountainous stacks of Christmas mail, which only the railroads could hope to handle, will have been delivered. Weeks earlier the carloads of Christmas trees and Christmas merchandise went onto the sidings for distribu tion to the waiting public. It is only a few days before Christmas that our rail­ road and others make their most appreciated contribu­ tion to the holiday season. They tak.e America h0111,e for Christmas. Since the time when relatives ceased to live within a few miles of each other and the sleigh, or a horse and rig, could handle the job of transportation, the train has been traditional for holiday travel. It is always heart-warming to observe how much the cheerful atmosphere of the train and the happy, friendly manner of the train personnel add to the holiday spirit of the passengers. Many years from now, when today's chil­ dren recall that trip at Christmastime, they'll remember us. Seeing all of this is to know that the railroads are a fundamental part of this season as we know it in America. So it is that every member of the Milwaukee Road Family has again done his share to make it a joyous Christmas for others. It is my sincere wish that, in turn, each of you will also enjoy a Merry Christmas, and that the year ahead will bring happiness and contentment to you and those you love. 1'_-_-­ First engineer to pilot the new Challenger-Midwest Hiawatha westbound out of Savanna, III. was William Madison of the Iowa Division, shown in the cab on Oct. 30. One of the most interesting pictures taken on "opening day" THE card attached to each of the dining was this one showing Vice President W. J. Whalen, Chief car and lounge car menus on the Over-, Mechanical Officer F. W. Bunce, and President J. P. Kiley as they watched the City of Denver depart. land Streamliners as they made their initial nms over The Milwaukee Road on Oct. 30 stated, "You are taking part in what we believe is a significant 'first' in the history of rail transportation." The occasion was, likewise, a significant • • • FOR THE RECORD first for many Milwaukee Road men. The October and November issues of the Magazine carried a number of pic­ Milwaukee Road People Who tures of officers and employes who laid the groundwork and launched the serv­ Helped Launch the Streamliners ice, but space did not permit publishing all of the pictures. Others taken on that day are reproduced here to complete the record of a significant event. Porter Louie Williamson, who has been in Milwaukee Road service II years, answers some questions for Airman 3/c Thomas G. McClary (on step) and Airman 3/c Lawrence Brown, as they board the dome coach on the ChaJleng·er, bound for Francis E. Warren Air Force Base at Cheyenne, Wyo. Pictures taken on the first day of the train's operation out of Chicago. Members of the train crew on the Marion, la.-Chicago run of the ChalJenger-Midwest Hiawatha on Oct. 30, shown as they waited to board the train in Marion. Left to right: Flagman E. W. Fisher, Conductor A. E. Peterson, Brakeman J. A. Neff, and Baggageman C. C. O'Neill. This veteran Milwaukee Road crew staffed the cafe lounge car of the City of Los Angeles leaving Chica~o on Oct. 30. Left to right: Waiters George King, W. G, Gord'on, J. W. Jackson, and Ben Benton; and Steward C. J. McLeod. December, 1955 3 Milwaukee Road To Carry 2,000 On Rose Bowl Specials FIVE special trains will move over Mil­ Chicago from East Lansing, Mich. on waukee Road and Union Pacific rails the evening of Dec. 26 will continue during the holiday season, carrying through to Los Angeles aboard two spe­ 2,000 students, alumni and other boost­ cial trains departing from Chicago at (Answers on page 29) ers from Michigan State University, Big 8:15 and 8:30 P.M. over the Milwaukee. Ten representatives, to and from Los Each train will consist of 12 cars, in­ Angeles for the Rose Bowl game with cluding a Milwaukee Road Super Dome 1. Where is Horseshoe Curve-in U.C.L.A. on Jan. 2. on the first of the trains to depart from New York, Pennsylvania, or Utah? The passenger traffic department has Chicago. 2. In what year was it first possible to received a check for approximatdy A third special, carrying the Michigan travel from the Atlantic to the Pa­ $100,000 from Gibbs Tours, organizers State Band and some of the members of cific by rail in the U. 5.-185'9, of the special movement, covering train the team, together with officers of the 1869, or 1879? fares for the students alone. Transporta­ college and of t..l-te Oldsmobile Corpora­ 3. Can one travel over different tion and Pullman accommodations for tion, will leave Chicago at 4:00 P.M. routes going and returning on a others in the group traveling via the on the 27th. round-trip ticket? Milwaukee were being purchased local­ The return movement will consist of 4. What is the approximate height of ly. Although this sum will be appor­ a student special and another special a 132-pound standard steel rail­ 1 tioned among the Milwaukee, Union carrying Michigan State' alumni, leav­ 6V2 inches, 7ys inches, or 8 / 2 Pacific and lines handling part of the ing Los Angeles on January 2 and 3, inches? return movement, the total amount rep­ respectively. 5. Are waybills issued for carload resents one of the largest single sales A number of other smaller special freight shipments only, for LCL ever made by the Milwaukee's passenger groups are also scheduled to ride the freight shipments only, or for both traffic department. Challenger and City of Los Angeles to carload and LCL shipments? A group of 880 students arriving in the West Coast for the big game. 6. Which is greater-the width of base or the height of a standard 115'- or 132-pound steel rail? 7. Who has been called "The Father of American Railroads" - John Stevens, Gridley Bryant, or Hora­ how to read car numbers tio Allen? A DEPARTMENT of Railway Age called "Questions and Answers for 8. Does the total investment of Class the Transportation Department", recently carried a number of inter­ I railroads in road and equipment esting comments by industry representatives on the subject of whether average more or less than $100,000 there is an approved or correct way to repeat car numbers. per mile of road? There appears to be no standard practice, although it is fairly well 9. When a freight car has been un­ agreed that the surest way to avoid errors is to pronounce each digit loaded, what term is used to de­ of a number separately. For example, the three digits of the number scribe staging, bracing, shelving, 304 could be read mOre quickly as "thirty ... four", but while that might etc., in the car- demurrage or dunnage? mean 3-0-4 to one person, it might mean 34 to someone else. 10. Is an interline ticket good for Asked for an opinion as to the method preferred on The Milwaukee travel over one railroad only or Road, C. A. Nummerdor, general superintendent of transportation, over more than one railroad? gave the Magazine the following statement: • "Our yard forces, train crews, agents, operators and train dispatchers usually repeat a car number such as 702094 as Seven-a-Two, a-Nine. Expect Report on Four, with a slight hesitation after the first three figures of 702. "On a car number with five figures, such as 50229, it would be Consolidation by Spring repeated Five-a, Two-Two-Nine; and a four figure number such as FOLLOWING a report of the joint com­ 6040 would be repeated Six-a, Four-a. mittees studying consolidation of The "This is usually 'standard' among the employes mentioned above, Milwaukee Road and the Chicago and but there are others who use different methods of stating car numbers. North Western, the board of directors This lack of complete uniformity sometimes makes for confusion. If of each railroad announced that it is there are important cars involved, it is well to repeat both the initials their belief the studies will have pro­ and the numbers (pronouncing each digit) as past experience shows gressed to such an extent that they will that most errors occur in reading car numbers wrong and not repeating be in a position to make a report at their correctly. This results in some mishandling of cars and considerable respective annual stockholders' meetings research to get the correct car number and initial on the waybill, which in May, 1956. must agree with the number of the car." The statement was the subject of a news release issued jointly by the two companies on Dec. 9. The Milwaukee Road Magazine the case for competitive rate making -----­ With transportation, as with everything else, the customer benefits from competitive prices. SUPPOSE there are half a dozen kinds of the President's Cabinet Committee on form of transport offered the most at­ soap flakes on a supermarket shelf.
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