Central

Railroad Magazine

Vol. X—No. 11 Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those CONTENTS inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our George P. McCallum species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind Editor-in-Chief Hurricane Edna 4 morally and intellectually, as well as materially, and not only facilitates the interchange of the various productions of nature and art, but tends to remove William A. Wheeler Conant Builds Home 10 national and provincial antipathies, and to bind together all the branches of the Associate Editor Emeritus great human family. Paper Mills 14 —Thomas B. Macaulay.

Europe's largest railway station restaurant is in Zurich Central Station, in FROM THE EDITOR Switzerland. It is staffed by 400 employees and can accommodate 1,600 persons at a time. We'd be the last to dispel the popular miscon• * * * ception held by metropolitan cliff dwellers and un• fortunate residents of other states that Maine is still An interesting volume entitled "Stories on Stone" compiled by Charles L. a deep, dark wilderness inhabited by Indians, lob• Wallis, published by Oxford University Press, 1954, contains the following railroad items: sters, and until the recent election, furtive Democrats. We always make it a point to mention, in say Cleve• In Greenridge Cemetery, Saratoga Springs, New York, is the tombstone of land or New York, the fact that just the other day Willoby S. McMillan, a locomotive engineer, who died in 1853. It bears the following inscription: having a desire for a venison steak for breakfast, we stepped to the back porch and dropped a prime buck. My engine is now cold and still No water does her boiler fill Hence, we're glad to pass on this most recent The wood affords its flames no more proof of the legend. On our desk is a succinct car• My days of usefulness are O'er. bon of a report to the vice president-Operations from The tombstone of Locomotive Engineer John Amos Barnes, in Bay View THE COVER J. H. Libbey, conductor August 28, on our popular Cemetery, Bellingham, Wash., bears this inscription: to the Maritime Provinces, "." A veteran Wabash Railroad engineer An unidentified track Took his last orders and made his final trip to patrolman typifies the ter• Explaining a 15 minute delay, on the line of the a mansion in the sky. rible damage hurled at report where it says, "Cause (briefly)" the conduc• Maine Central by Hurricane tor wrote: "Eng. 557 struck bear on main track." In Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, Colo., on a granite monument Edna. This scene is on the to Charles B. Gunn, railroad conductor, who died in 1935, are the words: Farmington Branch, where * Papa—Did you wind your watch? the patrolman surveys one of the many washouts that Published Monthly by hit it. Photo is by George Wilbur, Livermore Falls THE MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY There are more miles of railroad in the United States and Canada than there are in Asia, Africa, South America, and Australasia combined. photographer. 222 St. John Street Portland, Maine

The world's longest daily non-stop passenger train run is 393 miles, made by "The Elizabethan," between London, England, and Edinburgh. Scotland.

3 Hurricane Edna Wreaks Havoc On Maine Central . . . $350,000 Damage. . . Washouts Riddle Entire System. . . Service Nearly Restored. . . Efforts of Personnel Wonderful

cancelled. No. 15 was held at Northern second work train with 20 carloads of Maine Junction, No. 116 at Franklin, gravel and the Kohring ditcher was No. 57 at Freeport when the rain dispatched on the Back Road. At stalled its locomotive, No. 8 backed Leeds it turned the ditcher over to from Vanceboro to McAdam to feed Work Train No. 1 and took from it, 182 passengers. locomotive crane 163. Train 2 then RD—1 was halted with 45 cars at went to Oakland where two bad wash