Photo Contik^

Winners Named

(Other Prize Pictures on Pages 12-13)

FIRST PRIZE in the Candid Class by L. E. Lamson, Portland

Linwood E. Lamson, clerk in the railroad service in 1944. His pictures engineering department, Portland, of shop activities are familiar to emerged as winner of top honors in Magazine readers. the Maine Central Railroad Maga• Winning prizes of $5 each for third zine Snapshot Contest this month by prize were Olyn A. Darling, ticket capturing first prize in both the Can• clerk at Bangor, and J. "Pete" did and Scenic classes. Ascher, trainman, of Chamberlain. Lamson's expert technique and Darling's win was in the Scenic class, artistic eye for composition, gained a murky portrait of a windswept tree for his entries the unanimous de• entitled: "A pprpaching Fury." cision of the three judges on the first Ascher won in the Railroad class ballot. His two first prize money with an action shot of No. 20 enter• awards total $50. Lamson entered ing the east yard at Union Station. railroad service at Portland in 1943. In addition to the prize winners, First prize of $25 in the Railroad five entries were selected from each class went to Trainman A. L. Wake• class by the judges for Honorable field, South Portland, for his unusual Mention. They were: silhouette (opposite page) of an Class I—Candid—C. B. Cressey, engineer at the controls on the Moun• building superintendent, Portland; tain Subdivision. He entered rail• William L. Nickerson, freight han• road service in 1941. dler, Bangor; Miss Elizabeth S. Only other two-place winner in the Thomson, agent, Bingham; Nelson S. Contest was Mary E. Morse, clerk- Soule, operator, Freeport; and O'Con• typist in the engineering department, nor. Portland, who took the $10 second Class II—Scenic—Dominique For- prize in the Scenic classification, and tin, trainman, Portland; Perry A. $5 third prize in the Candid class. Morse, Mary E. Morse, Lamson and Second prize in the Candid class O'Connor. went to Trainman John H. O'Connor, Class III — Railroad — J. G. Con• Cape Elizabeth, for his excellent nelly, Tower Three, Portland Term• Winter scene of two young Christmas inal Company; Maurice J. Allaire, carolers. stores department clerk, Portland; Second prize in the Railroad class Harold K. Marland, carman's helper, was won by Perry A. Morse, ma• Waterville; L. H. Eldridge, conduc• chinist at the Waterville Shops, for tor, Portland; and J. P. Ascher. his dramatic shot of a steam loco• Meeting at the Augusta House with motive backlighted by the setting sun Magazine Editor-in-Chief C. A. in the Waterville Yards entitled, Somerville, Judges Gardner M. Rob• "Power At Rest." Perry entered erts, Portland Press Herald-Evening

3 MONSTER LATHE added to modern Waterville Shops machinery recently at left, ready to be lowered into an excavation in the Wheel Room for its foundation. Right, Machinist Charles Whitney, left, and Wheel Room Foreman Ray Snow, right, with the machine completely installed and in operation

Huge Lathe Installed at Waterville

By G. K. STEVENS Waterville Shops Reporter Installation of a monstrous 40-ton Another time-saver is that part of wheel lathe marked another progres• each face plate is removable. Diesel JUDGING THE CONTEST ENTRIES at the Augusta House are, left to right, Clarence T. McKay, Ken• sive step toward increased efficiency wheels can be turned without remov• nebec Journal; C. A. Somerville, Magazine editor-in-chief, looking on; Norman Webb, Bangor Daily News, through modern equipment recently ing the bearing housing. Only the and Gardner M. Roberts, Portland Press Herald-Evening Express at the Waterville Shops. outside cover need be removed. Push-button control speeds the The lathe embodies several new and tool carriage in and out. Each car• Express; Norman Webb, Bangor improved devices designed for greater riage has a turret head with four Daily News; and Clarence T. Mc• Coaches Built Over For accuracy in the cutting operation and tools. By turning the turret easily, Kay, Daily Kennebec Journal; sifted Work Equipment will nearly halve the working time. two roughing tools, a rough forming through approximately 200 entries to The machine will handle wheels tool, and a finish tool may be applied decide the winners. Transformation of 18 w o od e n from 28 to 50 inches in diameter and to the tread successively. While decision on the two first coaches purchased from the B&M is especially efficient for work on Other features include a "one-shot" prize awards was unanimous, the into spacious and comfortable work diesel wheels. oiling system that sends oil through judges twice cast additional ballots to equipment cars is underway at Wat• It is anticipated that all deluxe all parts of the machine merely by determine position of other entries erville Shops under the supervision passenger steel wheels and most of pushing a small lever, and an air and once cast three ballots for a de• of Foreman Eddie Johnston. the freight wheels now will be han• lock that holds the tail stock in posi• cision. Interior of the coaches must be tion. The latter formerly was hand dled by the huge lathe due to its ren• tightened with a wrench. A point system of rating was used stripped out, passenger service steel dering a more true tread. with each judge awarding points for wheels removed and replaced with Like an iceberg, nearly half of the first, second, and third, place to the cast iron, new window glass set, and Leading the time-saving improve• huge lathe is below floor level. A individual entries. Pictures were many other renovations made. ments in handling are the hydrauli- hole approximately 12 feet deep, 40 judged solely on merit. Names of Three of the coaches will become cally driven jaws on the face plates. feet long and 20 feet wide was exca• entrants were not revealed until after cook cars with a cook's room, fore• Formerly the jaw-lock bolts had to vated by power shovel in the wheel each class had been judged. man's office, two T" bqnl^jlining be hand tightened by wrench, where room. Two feet of gravel and 60 Checks to winners of cash prizes table, and cooking bench. A large now a small wrench is inserted in a cubic yards of cement were poured are being mailed, while winners of water tank, refrigerator, heater stove hydraulic pump and the four face to form a foundation for the machine. Honorable Mention will receive a let• and large cook stove will be installed. plate jacks run out together—30 sec• The herculean task of unloading ter of citation. Three others will be recreation cars onds work as compared to 10 minutes the huge machine and installing it Many of the entries submitted, with chairs and tables, while another or more the old way. Completing on its base was performed by Wheel while not of prize winning caliber, will be refurbished with 12 lockers, this phase, the jaws are released Room Foreman Ray Snow and Ma• six "T" bunks and partition for track quickly by a needle valve, eliminat• chinist Alden Finnemore under the are excellent for Magazine purposes. ing the necessity of backing off the Contestants may see them published supervisors office. The coaches will personal supervision of Superintend• replace cars 1387, 1352, 1341, 1359, tail stock and running the jacks back ent Frank H. Bennett. Machinist over a period of time in the Maga• by hand as formerly. zine. 730 and 1336. Charles Whitney operates the lathe. and Calais and that it was a near cer• The new melting tender will join Bowlers Form Leagues, tainty the Easterners would compete. Two Tenders Into One those in use by 701-702 at Rigby and The strong Waterville Shops league For Snow Melting will permit two tenders to be hooked Eye Directors' Trophy that spawned the trophy winners last together for greater melting capacity. year, has an eight-team field under• Picked up by a conveyor, much like way. Due to personnel changes the a potato digging •machine, the snow winning streak of Machinists, led by is dropped into the tender manhole last year's Tournament Chairman and, striking the hot steam, is quick• Abbott McKenney, may be threat• ly vaporized. The 701-702, only Hud• ened by the Apprentices who have son-type locomotives owned by the two high men from the tourney team Maine Central, were converted to in their ranks. Other teams in the snow melters for their high steam Waterville League are Electricians, pressure—240 pounds to the square Painters, Passenger Room, Freight inch. Room, Rip Track and Yard Crew. The new tender was made from the At Portland the combined Maine combined tenders of Santa Fe's 653- Central-B&M league at the General 657, scrapped last Spring after faith• Offices have eight teams in competi• ful service on the Rigby-Bangor and tion. The league again is under man• return runs. agement of Jim Finley, captain of last year's tournament team. At Rigby Manager Roy Tibbetts WISSIN'S WONDERS reports organization of a strong NEW ADDITION to the snow melting forces is this Eastern Division employes spying the special tender under construction at Waterville by following excerpt from the "50 Years league. The Terminal Company boys Boilermaker Tommy Simpson, right, and his crew. have had a covetous eye on the Tommy has a record of 58 fine years with the company Ago" column of the Ellsworth American Trophy since last year's competition. gleefully expressed belief Ellsworth Agent C. D. Wiggin has had a profitable Another foe of Winter snows will sideline lo these many years. It read: join our attack forces this year with "Working Night and Day. The busiest conversion of two Santa Fe type ten• and mightiest little thing that ever was Looking Back.. 20 years A90 ders for snow melting service. made is Doctor King's New Life Pills. (From the Magazine Files) Completed except for installation Every pill is a sugar-coated globule of UP FOR BID is this object possessively esconced in a of steam pipes at Waterville is a health, that changes weakness into beautiful cabinet above and behind the desk of its guardian, F. H. Bennett, shops superintendent. It's tender made from cutting two ten• strength, listlessness into energy, brain• the Maine Central Directors' Trophy of course, and The Maine Central-operated ders in half and welding them to• fag into mental power. They're won• teams out to remove it from the Waterville trophy gether back to back. derful in building up the health. Only room should be forewarned that its guardian has a Steamer Norumbega, running from stern win-it-again-or-else gleam in his eye! Mt. Desert Ferry to Bar Harbor, was While the overall length is no 25c per box. C. D. Wiggin." the subject of a feature story. Cap• greater by the operation, it makes it Agent Wiggin reports all of his "90 tain Joe Norton and Pilot Rod Sad• possible to have a draw bar at each years" have been with the Maine Cen• Bowling along the Maine Central ler were celebrating their 29th year end. Coal pits are removed and a tral, that he never took a pill in his rolled off to a good start this month with the company and Chief Mate coil installed in the bottom, connected life, much less sold them, but that a with the railroad pin pickers whip• Lewis Foss had just completed 26 to a maze of steam pipes. Two, six- namesake did operate a drugstore in ping leagues and arms into shape for years' service. inch drain valves are installed on each Ellsworth when he first came there years the coming season. Charlie Leard, Bangor, penned for side to handle its 12,000 gallon ca• ago. At Bangor, Track Supervisor Ben the Magazine a by-lined story with pacity. Whitney, captain of last year's tour• the battering title: "Beautiful Biddy nament team from that area, revealed Bobs Into Bangor on Brake Beam the Queen City keglers will enter two Deadheading Beneath Baggage Car!" B & B CREWS installed teams in the city league with an eye Seems a rooster escaped from a ship• this 40-foot bituminous- to fielding a top flight combination ping crate at North Station and rode coated corrugated pipe in for the Maine Central Directors' the express—No. 71—into Bangor. one day recently to re• Trophy tourney. Charlie wrote that: "Some of the place a wooden culvert at A promised newcomer to the tour• boys in the station took him into the milepost 151.13 east of nament finale is an able Eastport ag• baggage room, gave him a good rub West Stewartstown, N. gregation paced by Johnny Craig, down, a hot drink of checkerberry H. Jack Lawrence, fore• foreman of freight handlers there. and a big feed of hasty pudding and man of the stone crew, With distance a confining factor, milk and it is reported that some em• is at left Craig expressed belief pre-tournament ploye had fricasseed chicken for his matches could be played with Bangor Sunday dinner."

9 8 highways. If any considerable part Currently operating a yard switch• of it was diverted to public highway Presented Gold Pass er, Freese entered railroad service in what would become of him? October, 1899, as a fireman on the Yet his money continues to be Eastern Division. He was set up to spent to help speed these behemoths engineer in January, 1905. For 25 over his roads in direct competition years Freese was engineer of the old with the railroad. Train 29, day service from Boston to St. John, and later served on the Gull. 3*> EcUtorsPage One might well ask too, what is to become of us if this inequity is al• Accompanying his pass was a con• CLIFFORD A SOMERVILLE lowed to continue? gratulatory letter from President E. EDI TOR-/N CHIEF S. French. GEORGE PMcCALLUM ... . EDITOR BOWLERS WANTED WM. AWHEELER ONE FOR RIPLEY ASSOCIATE EDITOR (EMERITUS) A new bowling season opens throughout the Maine Central sys• Born to Mrs. Murielle Rodrique in St. tem this month. As the teams pro• WHO'S IN THE MIDDLE? Mary's Hospital, Lewiston, a baby boy gress, first half league winners are on Oct. 8, at 8 a.m., weighing 8 pounds, This month the Portland Terminal announced, high men and smooth- in hospital room No. 8, bed No. 8. The Company will undertake a $40,000 working combinations emerge, the mother's first and last name contains 8 project for better highway crossing stimulus of the all-system bowling letters and 8 of her girl friends were in protection. This large sum is being tournament for possession of the the maternity ward at the same time. expended to provide safety protec• Maine Central Director's Trophy She is the daughter of Truck Driver tion for a hazard created by others. looms on the horizon. Aime Roy of Lewiston. Her husband, It is in addition to the thousands of It was our first tournament last AT THE THROTTLE of his Bangor yard switcher is Frank Rodrique, formerly was a Port• dollars spent annually by our rail• year. We think anyone that partici• Nathan G. Freese who received his Gold Pass last land Terminal Company employe. road to maintain our own steel "high• pated will agree it was a bang-up month ways"—our roadbed—over which our time. Plenty of good bowling, jok• —LILLIAN G. WHITE trains run. Lewiston Reporter ing and comradeship. Another veteran Maine Central em• We do not have any taxpayers help• We'd like to see more teams en• ing us. We help them by paying real ploye joined the distinguished ranks tered this year. The Mountain boys of Gold Pass holders last month. More new freight cars and loco• taxes—taxes that are used for their should get in on this and show their schools, their town facilities—in fact, Gold Lettered Life Service Pass motives were installed in service in stuff. Lewiston used to have a team the first seven months of 1949 than that go to maintain highways that —how about it? Rockland, Rumford, No. 137 went to Locomotive Engineer our competitors ruthlessly pound in• Nathan G. Freese, 69, of Lincoln in any corresponding period in about Parmington—-railroaders everyone— 25 years. to ruin. let's make it as tough as possible to Street, Bangor. No comparable situation has exist• win that Trophy. ed in the economic history of busi• ness. Services of the Magazine are at your disposal. Anyone interested THIS INTERESTING DISPLAY of photographs depicting the progress of railroading was arranged by Guy N. Ash, A recent issue of Trains magazine Portland jeweler, in his store window recently to call attention to watch inspection time pointed out that to construct a mile please let us know right away. of bare railroad today would cost $42,000—that's with no signals, no telephone or telegraph, no wayside THE COVER signs or structures. And you would have to pay today's real estate prices We like to think no sight in the Coun• for a mile long strip of land, 60 to try compares to Fall painting Nature's 100 or more feet in width. canvas on our beautiful White Moun• In California actual studies showed tains. Thousands are attracted to the that taxpayers there paid 22.2 per brilliant spectacle annually and certain• cent more to construct highways for ly there's no better way to have viewed heavy trucks and buses than would it than on our Mountain Sub-division. have been required for ordinary light• Here, amateur photographer Roger Flint weight vehicles. of Bridgton, Me., caught one of our What a paradox. Here is the tax• small type, C-class engines heading 163 payer-motorist having railroad money with Locomotive Engineer L. D. Benson spent to insure his safety; railroads and Fireman J. E. Pellerin up, pausing built and maintained to keep heavy for mail with Mt. Willard as a backdrop. inter-city freight on its own steel

10 SECOND AND THIRD PRIZE WINNERS in the Magazine Snapshot Contest. (1) Christmas Carolers, second prize in the Candid Class by Trainman John H. O'Connor, Cape Elizabeth. (2) Thundersome Beauty, second prize in the Scenic Class by Mary E. Morse, Portland. (3) Approaching Fury, third prize in the Scenic Class by Olyn A. Darling, Bangor. (4! Power At Rest, second prize in the Railroad Class, by Perry A. Morse, Waterville. (5) No. 20 Entering Union Station, third prize in the Railroad Class by Pete Ascher, Jr., Chamberlain. (6) Ready and Waiting, third prize in the Candid C ass by Mary E. Morse, Portland Bill Monahan, baggagemaster on relief Mrs. Atkins, wife of Conductor Allie At• passenger job, visited Boston, Lancaster, N. kins of Rockland, was a patient at the Knox H. and other points on his vacation. Hospital. At this writing she is home and Pullman Conductor Hopkins and Railway doing fine. Express Messenger Jim Leighton attended the Bowdoin-Tufts football game at Med- ford, Mass. Jim is now hunting and fishing at Lake Richardson for a month. Howard Goss, conductor on 23-48. is back to work after being off for 10 weeks. Sympathy is extended to Mrs. H. J. Cor- bett and familv on the death of Engineman Harry J. Corbett, Oct. 17. ing tender at Bartlett, C. B. Langill has Frank Cunningham, clerk in the Maine taken over a crossing job at North Conway, Central station restaurant at Vanceboro for displacing J. L. Meserve, who went to Rich• over 30 years, wTas in Calais hospital for a mond, Me. checkup. Engine-house-man David Whitcher has Anyone wishing a nice kitten should con• Pittsfield nflountai shown up with a good looking auto. tact Norman Fuller, train announcer at Agent Joe Crepeau of Pabyans is on va• Portland Union Station. By I. L. SIROIS cation at present, bis place being filled by J. J. Keating, your faithful train crews correspondent had his vacation motoring to Agent J. M. Estes just returned from his W. H. Burnell. two weeks' vacation. He and his wife Operator W. C. Carkin is holding forth travelled to Rangeley, Moosehead and Mat- at Glen while Walter is at Fabyan. tawamkeag where they called on old friends. YDU R REPORTER Signalman A. E. Mallett is tinkering with Agent B. J. Sirois of Clinton with Mrs. Reporter a TV set. Being pretty handy with such Sirois and her sister Mrs. Rice, of Braden- things, we expect to see him get results ton, Fla. took a trip to Eangeley recently. O. R. "Bud" soon, although we are perhaps too far from Eeports wonderful trip and scenery through Boston for really good results. to Rangeley, but poor roads from Eustis Burdwood, Engineer Emerson, better known as Tar- down through the Dead River water reser• agent at Bart- zan, is having his P. T. plane checked over voir project. and refinished at the Conway Valley Air• Stanley Thrasher worked second trick lett, has com- port. We saw it the other day, and it is operator at Rockland a few days recently. p I e t e d 33 looking very nice indeed. You will hear It was Operator Thrasher's first job inci• more about this plane and 'Old Tarz' soon. dentally. He is going to Bingham to relieve years' ser• Section Foreman Douglass Macomber is the agent there. on his vacation. Operator P. L. Overfield worked second vice with the Operator R. C. Burdwood has bid off the trick at Clinton while the job was up for third trick, temporary here at Bartlett, Maine Cen• PORTLAND FAMILY are Baggage and Mail Handler bid. Operator M. C. Michaud going to Colebrook. Operator A. W. Brown bid off second trick We regret to learn of the sudden death John Tucci and wife, left, and their four months old tral covering son, John, Jr., right at Clinton leaving the Clinton swing jog job of Mrs. Richard C. Nealley, wife of track open for bids. Brownie covered Agent J. M. a variety of assignments. He began man, of Bartlett. Estes' job while he was on his vacation and as agent-operator at White Rock Oquossoc to fish and rest at one of Gene Operator K. A. Gray covered Brownie's Vaughan's camps, where there are no "aches swing job at Clinton. Station in 1916, served in World or pains." He has returned to work and The section crew finished mainline sur• War I, went to Sawyer's River in next issue will be on his job with attentive facing on the Clinton section and are now eyes and ears. helping finish surfacing on the Burnham 1921, has been on duty at Tower 4, James A. Hayes is back from vacation. Jet. section. W. W. Hall was laid off He and Mrs. Hayes motored through the Cowan's crew Oct. 5th for the winter. Portland and Tower B, Waterville. White Mountains into Vermont and returned through Massachusetts, visiting at Lynn With the deer hunting season opening to• As he expressed it: "after 20 years By GEORGE LARSEN and Nahant. They also took a trip to Wis- day next month's reading should be more interesting—may be ! of working nights," he assumed his (Johnnie Keating, regular reporter of this casset and Farmington to visit the fair. column and the "Winchell" of the Magazine, Wallace F. Gleason, conductor, and Mrs. Operator L. K. Chipman bid off swing job present position in 1946. Here's his is enjoying a well-deserved (?) vacation Gleason visited their son and daughter at No. 12 at Pittsfield and Newport Junction this month.—Ed.) Asbury Park, N. J., and Philadelphia on and bought a house in Pittsfield. Operator column. Clyde Caswell and Sherman Wood were their vacation. A. M. McGown bid off swing job No. 14, Pittsfield-Newport and Hermon Pond. visitors to Xarragansett Park to watch the W. W. Caldwell, conductor on the North• ponies Sept. 20. C. L. Quigley, safety agent, Operator A. M. Gray bid off Mattawam- We are pleased to see A. S. Dodge back ern Maine switcher, has been off duty over and A. L. Spencer, baggagemaster on 23-28, eight weeks. He is convalescing at his home keag-Vanceboro swing job. on the job here, and looking very well. motored to Lake Champlain, up Grand Isle K. A. Jackson, who handled the job for sev• at Forest following a surgical operation in a to Rouse's Point, back through New York Bangor hospital. eral weeks, has returned to Lewiston. Sorry state stopping at Lake Placid and the F. D. to see Jackson leave us; he made many Engineman Walter Tapley of Waterville, Roosevelt estate at Hyde Park. They also has been a patient at the Sister's Hospital friends up here. It was observed, inci• called on Ted Collins in Greenfield. Mass., dentally, th.'it he had some mild interest in for a checkup. former assistant roadmaster of the MCRR. At this writing Bill Prescott is a patient the affairs -of the Bed Sox. Bill Cobb, baggagemaster on 93 and 8. is Announcing the birth of a daughter, there. back to work after being off duty over a Dick Moreshead has been off duty several Dianne Anita, to Trainman and Mrs. D. A. month following surgery in a Bangor Hos• Dudley. Congratulations. weeks. He is very ill at Mercy Hospital. pital. Retired Conductor Nick Huston and Mrs. J. K. Dorsett, trackman, and Mrs. Dor- G. E. Dauphinee has bid in the swing job Huston of Portsmouth, N. H., celebrated sett, have gone on a trip to California. Ex• on 23-92 and 93-8. their 49th wedding anniversary Sunday, Oct. pect to see them back soon now. Tom Taylor, conductor on 123-116 and 9, visiting Mrs. Huston's brother at Calais. Sorry to report that Conductor E. B. Lob- 129-122, is back to work after visiting his Barney Hall, retired conductor, and wife, dell is still sick ; also Engineer P. S. Munn daughter in the south, and making a stop- have returned to their home in East Hiram has been feeling below par recently. off in Boston. M. E. Allen covered the job after spending summer at their cottage at HERE'S the first passenger train to enter Harmony As a result of abolishing the job of cross• during his absence. Pequawkit Lake. in August, 1912, forwarded by Pete Ascher

14 15 Basil Trask. Jr.. made a solo flight in his Among those on the sick list are or have Dorothy Lord, R. N., has been a recent airplane from Old Town to Waterville, been, Carmen Jack Brown, Otten Ware, visitor in Woodstock and Fredericton, N. B. Maine recently. He certainly enjoys flying Chester Knights, Elias Hatton, Lars Ander• Former Machinist John Faas has re• and is anxious to teach his father how to son, Eddie King, Jr., Fred Tardiffe, E. C. opened his garage in Benton and is doing operate the plane. Starks, Bill Witham, Harold Williams, Flo- business with a big auger. A. Bickford, trackman, called on his rian Jacques, and L. D. Michaud ; Laborers Earl Cone, shop supervisor at Billerica, daughter at Dover-Foxcroft last week end. Sumner Holt and Reny Jacques; Machinist was a recent visitor at the Shops. Gene Young traded cars this past month Sam Desveaux; Engineman Leland Tapley Stenographer Shirley Murray finds na• and now has a new one which he enjoys and Fireman D. W. Buzzell. ture study in the vicinity of Jackman in• very much. Machinist Charles Averill is off on a hunt• teresting. We guess that it is Human na• Jerry Roberts has purchased a new car. ing trip and says he is going to bring back ture. He hasn't offered any of us a ride as yet, we a deer if they don't cost too much. The Upholsterers are pleased to note that are all looking forward to it. Electrician Forrest Hussey is insulating Helper Manley Wentworth has finally Reed Hilton, retired brakeman from Wa• his house. shaved. terville, says he enjoys the magazine very Painter Bill Mingo, Foreman Laurence Engine House Clerk Erwin Carter spent much. He states that he sends his copy to Campbell and Electrician Fred Spares have his vacation attending the Eastern States a friend in California, who went to work Exposition in Springfield, Mass., and also on the Maine Central away back in 1900. installed new automatic oil burning floor furnaces. took in several ball games in Boston. While Dave King has called an important meet• Special Apprentice Steve Sweet has sold at the Red Sox game a frenzied fan smashed ing of the Dopesters Club this month. It is his home in Oakland to Carman Helper Ted his strawT hat over Carter's head. rumored that the members are going to set• Machinist Burr Blanchard and Helper tle the steel strike, if possible. Jewett. PAUSING AT WATERVILLE STATION are Engineer Electrician Ken Reed is covering the new Orville Kitchen are spending a week at Charles W. Henry, right, and Fireman Paul F. Bar• Retired Railway Express Agent Russell Vanceboro overhauling stationary engines Taylor called at the office last week. outside electricians job consisting of one rows, left, with Engine 528 day in Augusta, one day in Livermore and for the pumping systems. the remainder of the week in the Shop. Transfer Table Operator and Mrs. Tom A partridge flew thru a window pane in Underwood and Painter Warren Underwood Waterville Station and Yard Augusta the freight shop recently, breaking its neck. spent a recent week end in Grand Falls, By ELLIS E. WALKER N. B. By M. W. FLYNT AND M. M. PHELPS Carman Helper Joe Banks had fresh game Clerk Telegrapher, Harry P. Lowell is a for supper. Foreman Ray Snow has placed a second Betty Beach returned to work Oct. 3 after surgical patient at Maine General Hospital, Janitor Algie Small has a new car and for trick in the wheel room, consisting of Ma• an extensive vacation to Boston, New Ha• Portland, Me. All hope for a speedy re• the first two weeks never got it out of chinist Perry Morse and Helper Charlie ven and the White Mountains. covery. second gear. Roberts. W. A. Prescott is rapidly recovering from After digging all summer, Foreman Lou Blacksmith John Bucknam has a new a siege of pneumonia. Work on the new bridge here is nearing truck. Alice Jenkins returned to work Oct. 17 completion and is expected to open for traf• Electrician Parker Hall has started train• after a leave of absence. fic around Thanksgiving. The American ing to be in shape to retain the plastic cup Herschel Croch is out of the hospital af• Bridge Co. is shipping their equipment out that he was awarded in the last Bowling ter a long stay there. and the Snodgrass car is working on the ce• Tourney. ment deck. Connie Binette enjoyed her Saturday off Sweeper and Mrs. Archie Gullifer cele• shopping in Boston. Operator Vern Hutchinson has taken the first relief job at ticket office. brated their 53d wedding anniversary at a Harold Thyng and wife took a one day party given them by their children at the trip to the White Mountains. Spare Operator Richard Achorn is reliev• James Hotel, Oct. 19. ing Harry Lowell 2nd trick at ticket office. Bag and Mail man Shirley Driscoll has Painter Helper Henry Butler ascended his Oakland, Maine had vacation relieved by Ed Grady. cellar stairs with a can of range oil, started Clerk Telegrapher Don Reynolds who has to pull open the door and the doorknob came M. L. SANBORN been on sick leave has returned from a visit off and Henry did a back flip down 12 stairs Station Agent Marshall is on a week's to Mattawamkeag and expects to return to and landed on the back of his head on the vacation. He planned to go on a motor trip work shortly. cement floor receiving a bloody cut 2 ^ in• into Canada and visit historical places in Crossing tender James Chase formerly of HUNG OUT TO DRY is this litter of seven Boston ches long. Henry proudly boasts 'never spilt Quebec. M. R. Graham, operator from Mon• Skowhegan and F. E. Sweatt formerly of Terrier pups owned by Machinist Welder and Mrs. a drop of oil.' mouth, filled in for Marshall while he was Richmond have taken positions at this sta• Joe King, Waterville. All have imposing pedigrees Millman Merle Beverage has returned to away. tion. registered with the American Kennel Club work after a prolonged illness. I. C. Varney, operator from Brunswick, Crossing Tender James Chase is off for a Our well known radio ham, Millman Er• has bid off the swing shift which included few days result of leg injury relieved by nest Crocker, has been conducting television Oakland, in one of his week's operations. Kenneth Fisher. Iflll has finally struck water in his well. experiments at Bigelow Hill in Larone. Operator Verne Hutchinson has moved back Electrician Albert Nelson has a powered Millman Charlie Sibley is remodeling his to Monmouth. He now holds the second model plane that he wishes to sell. home and adding two rooms. trick operator job in Augusta. He has pur• Waterville Shops Chief Clerk Herman Rines suffered a Welder Curtis Orchard is a proud grand- chased a car to travel back and forth to his rather infantile accident recently but it pappy. job. By G. K. STEVENS wasn't serious enough to result in much Rip Track Ramrod George Branch has re• H. Russell's crew has been working on the Attention Malcolm Billington and the lost time. turned to work after surgery at the Sisters. Oakland-Bingham branch this month repair• Rigby Engine House Crew. While you boys Machinist Phil Severson, while not mak• Carman Junior Dow has returned to the ing track as needed. have rolled up an impressive safety record ing any direct accusations toward Machin• Rip Track after substituting as inspector in Merlin O'Neal now has the choice of two as shown by the recent Magazine Cover, ist Bill Cote, says that he does not care for the yard. Paul Pooler, former millroom broom, is cars when it comes to living up to his many Waterville Engine House Foreman Joe honey adulterated with corn syrup. Dougherty and his crew are on their 395th Recent winners in the Bond affair include still confined to his home but is reported social activities in the evenings. He has a coming along fine. wide circle of 'friends including both mem• day with a clean accident slate. Would Sweeper Harry McCaslin, Foreman George bers of the opposite sex and from rumors suggest that Al Wetmore publish his figures McCausland at Bangor. Machinist Stan Millman Eddie King spent his vacation gathered here and there it seems that he has each month in his column and we'll carry Young, Painter Chester Craig, Clerk Arthur working on his woodworking shop. barely time to change his clothes some the Waterville Engine House score for com• Grenier and Electrician Fred Spares. Moving the Electric Shop Storeroom has mornings in time for work. parison. We don't have a doubt in the Blacksmith Clayton Johnston has pur• been completed and the entire parts depart• Now that the baseball season is over, world but that Waterville will be the win• chased a new rifle for his boy and has hopes ment for steam and diesel locomotives, plus friendly Harold Higgins, hasn't got much to ner. of getting some fresh meat this fall, after the M of W material and the electrical sup• talk about in the way of sports. He was Machinist Don Russell has a new auto. a long fast. plies, are now housed in the new, light and rather sorry to have the Red Sox lose this The Machinists and Pipers all joined with Machinist Helper Cecil Carmichael was convenient storeroom in the roundhouse. A year, but he says they will surely win next Piper Louie Butler in a house-warming at called to Houlton recently by serious illness good job and a credit to all who participated year. his new camp on Halloween. of his father. in the moving.

16 17 Former Laborer Armand Metevier now has a regular clerkship as stock book man in the locomotive store. Clerk Leonard Boucher, Machinist John Larracey and Carman Bing Crosby were participants in the Waterville Firemen's Parade recently. Clerk and Mrs. Guy Wentworth and son By LUCILLE BRIDGE Bob enjoyed a recent week end at Boothbay. Operator and Mrs. Robert Leighton spent Bruin is still in Anson Valley. Even tho their vacation touring New York, Washing• Crane Operator Charlie Bean and Laborer ton, and Virginia. Peanut Loubier went in pursuit of him. Miss Gerrie Call has been installed as Carman Henry Gleason's Pinto pony took worthy advisor by the Hampden Rainbow a second blue ribbon recently at a horse Girls. Gerrie is the daughter of Operator show. The first was at Sidney Fair. and Mrs. Merton Call. Checker Lester Davis has recently in• Mr. and Mrs. Jacque Astle and Opera• stalled an automatic oil burner in his fur• tor and Mrs. Conrad Mason have returned nace. from their vacation trip to New York. Jake Freight Clerk John St. Peter has been is the supervisor at Augusta. Conrad oper• watching the ponies at Topsham Fair. ates on the Augusta-Gardiner Line. Carmen who have been breaking in on the «ar inspectors' job include Wilfred Dusty, Merrill Stanley, supervisor of tariffs at GENERAL OFFICE friends arranged this decorated desk Leo Fredette, Sid Brown, Jr. and Irving the general office, has returned to work af• for Kay Cobb, secretary to the publicity manager, upon Emery. ter recovery from the mumps. A new the announcement of her marriage to Alfred A. Mer- mumps victim—Ralph Libby. Ralph is the cier, Boston. Mrs. Mercier was presented a purse. Carman Floyd Case is in the market for supervisor of purchases, general office. .a new farm. The bridegroom is associated with the Paine Furniture Painter Chester Craig and Blacksmith We wish to extend our sympathy to Ger• Company, Boston READY TO TAKE OFF is the cute little tyke, Judith ald Wardwell in his recent bereavement. Harold Boucher, members of the Fairfield Giggey of Bangor. She is the granddaughter of Car• Center Rifle Team, attended a match in Au• Charlie Earley, supervisor at Lewiston, burn recently. man and Mrs. Harry Patterson, Waterville has returned to work. Charlie says he feels "Bob" Grant, freight claims and Mrs. Watchman Wilfred Chenevert is a patient pretty good. He was a surgery patient at Grant of 13 Farm Hill Road, Cape Eliza• at the Sisters, for surgery. the Eastern Maine General Hospital at beth are the proud parents of a daughter, Lewiston. Car Inspector Wallace Rousseau is on va• will have charge of the Waterville end and Deborah Ann born Oct. 5, in the Maine Eye cation. further information may be obtained from Among those enjoying vacations recently : & Ear Infirmary. Checker Nubert Estabrook is building two him. All who are members are urged to at• Operators Clarence Anderson, Wilbur Miss Ruth E. Thomas, daughter of Mr. mew hen houses and Carman Wallace Moores tend. Bryant, Duane Chase, Thomas Elwell, Karl and Mrs. Haddon E. Thomas, Houlton, be• has taken the contract to furnish the win• We wish to take this opportunity to say Pierce, Edwin Robinson. George Rollins, came the bride of Earle F. Bennett, clerk In dows from his mill . . . Nubert states that 'Welcome Back' to Painter Walter Lee who Jim Rollins and Harold Watts. Mechanics the freight claim department, at an after• his hens consume about a ton and a half of has been out for more than four months at Portland Garage, Eugene Pozdziak, Lead- noon ceremony Saturday, Oct. 16, in the grain per week. with serious eye trouble. man Maynard Preston, Powell Taylor and Woodfords Congregational Church, Port• Painter Charlie 'The Parson' Lawry at• Carman and Mrs. Jimmy Ifill have been Harold Latham. Mechanics at Bangor Ga• land. The bride is a graduate of Houlton tended the Methodist Advance Movement recent business visitors in Portland. rage, Frank Foster, Robert Jordan and Rus• High School and the Maine School of Com• Conference at Portland recently. Sympathy is extended to Carman Helper sell Jordan. At Augusta, Assistant Fore• merce. She has been residing with her cou• man Philip Dow. Electrician Johnnie Sullivan has taken the Adjutor Audette whose mother died recent• sin. District Freight Agent and Mrs. Theo• swing electrician job at Union Station, Ban• ly- dore E. Grover, Marlowe Street. Bennett gor. Foreman Eddie Johnston fell from the is a graduate of Berwick Academy. Clerk Elain Kervin was a recent visitor gable end of the now famous hunting camp Congratulations to Fred Harris, clerk in lu Boston. at Kingsbury. After three days of rest plus the passenger department, and Mrs. Harris, Johnnie Abbott, head of the Accounting much exploratory stretching and probing on the birth of a son at Mercy Hospital, Department, has been on vacation watching Eddie seems to be as good as ever. October 22. the ponies run. Machinist Diamon Sherrard is on vaca• Ilfleneral Offices Clerk Simon Karter has a new car, also tion, as is Machinist Helper Maurice Rob• Clerk Joe Cosgrove. erts. Leading Lumber Man Alfred Cunningham Special Apprentice Steve Sweet has a has been elected noble grand of Anion Lodge, white enameled stove, complete with oil By EDITH W. MACGIBBON, DORIS M. No. 95, IOOF, at Oakland. burner and hot water coil, for sale. THOMAS, LILLIAN G. SMALL, JULIA ROPER, Easterife^^ Laborer Sol Moran has returned to work Machinist Charlie Derocher, while hunt• GERTRUDE C. HOLBROOK after an accident. ing for rabbits, shot a fox. Thinking he had Those on vacation from the engineering Laborer Roland Knights has been at the a prize Charlie patiently skinned the fox and took the pelt to a fur dealer who re• department were W. Lampson, Charles E. Thayer for an appendectomy. McCarthy and Cora Hoy. Bangor M of W Carman Roland Dorval has been in Rock• fused to take the pelt for a gift. We were pleased to receive a visit one land substituting for Rockland carmen on Electrician Albert Nelson is laying new By JOHN MINCHER vacation. hardwood floors all through his house. day recently from "Chuck" Hetherington, Electrician Frank Blair, now at Portland formerly employed as chainman in the en• Section Foreman and Mrs. Nelson Craig Carman Kenneth Hall has bid in the third of Ayers Jet. took a trip last month to trick as car inspector in the yard. Union Station, has been a recent visitor. gineering department. Machinist Hazen Fowler has harvested Provfdence to visit a newly born grandchild. With the advent of the hunting season Those from the engineering department Sympathy is extended to the family of Painter Henry Pooler has taken his musket some 500 bushels of potatoes this fall. He enjoying the Lunt-Fontanne play, "I Know says that some of them were so large that Trackman Vinal Gray of Olamon who died and trusty flashlight and has headed for My Love," at the Plymouth were Bertena last month after more than 25 years' ser• Eustis Ridge. *• he had to use a cant dog to roll them out Bodge, Mary Plummer, Cora Hoy, Edna of the ground. vice. Mrs. Clarence McLain. wife of our outside Crimmins and Edith MacGibbon. Miss Elwood Pete has bid off the job of fore• carpenter, Clarence, had the misfortune to Foreman Ralph Patterson has been a Eleanor G. Conboy, formerly clerk in the business visitor at Rigby recently. man of the Lincoln Section, and Warren fall downstairs, breaking her shoulder. engineering department, was also a mem• Tourtillotte is the new foreman of the Ola• A system meeting of the Trowel Club is Electricians Parker Hall and Johnnie ber of the party. mon Section. scheduled for Waterville and the tentative Beeh, with their wives, have been at their We are glad to know that Division Engi• Thomas Clement, trackman on the Orono date is Nov. IS. Plans are being made for camp at* Pleasant Pond. neer J. P. Scully, of the Engineering De• Section, has bid off the position of assistant attendance of about 150 members to a sup• Those famous pigs of Machinist Eldon partment, who has been confined to his foreman of the Bangor Crew. per and get-together later in the evening. Fish are now coming to work with him, in home by illness, is much improved at this Arthur Rumery, carpenter in L. D. Smith's Assistant Superintendent Wilbur C. Lunt his lunch pail. writing. Crew, has returned home from the hospital

18 19 Friends of Arthur Tracy, 73, a pensioned after being off duty since the last part of Joseph F. Petterson, son of Engineer and June due to an unfortunate accident. carpenter of the B & M department, were Bangor Car Department sorry to learn of his death at Waterville, Mrs. F. J. Petterson was married in the John F. Pembroke, carpenter in L. D. Congregational Church, Essex. Conn., Sept. Smith's Crew, died last month following a Oct. 4. By LENA GOLDEN 24. The bride. Miss Susanna Durgin. is the Harland J. Conners, carman, is strutting long illness. One of the boys asked me the other day daughter of Capt. E. R. Durgin, USX, and Gilbert Leighton, former trackman on the if I knew why there were less train wrrecks around these days, proud as a peacock. young Petterson will be remembered as the Reason : twins, boy and girl, arrived at his Dennysville Crew, is working in the East- than automobile wrecks. He said it was be• "Lone Mariner" who recently crossed the port Crew. cause the engineer was not always trying home on Oct. 7, which makes him the father Atlantic in a small boat. A reception was of nine children. to kiss the fireman. held at the Durgin estate "Eight Bells." Electrician X. B. Harding returned to We observe that Roland E. Lancaster, work Nov. 13 following a long illness. Charles J. Wilson and wrife attended the carman in Bangor freight yard, is making YDUR REPDRTER Engineer Frank B. Lobley, William Bis• fourth annual convention of the Coast Guard his usual elaborate preparations for his an• hop as well as Night Foreman Harold R. League in Chicago. nual rabbit hunt. Eames have been away for some time due Carman Ben Caldwell has just completed *"3BHB^^J Reporter to sickness. a new 60-foot television tower at his home Diesel Foreman George N. McCausland is and he is able to get practically all sta• perfectly content to remain in bucolic ob• tions even as far south at Atlanta. Ga. aid, has been scurity when off duty, so he recently pur• Some of his pals were treated to the pleas• chased a new home in the suburbs of Hamp• SON OF Section Fore• ure of watching the World Series from his agent at Den- den and claims the environs are delightful. man and Mrs. Melvin M. set. f » fjjH nysville since He knows a good town when he sees it. Taylor, Pembroke, is The many friends of Chief Clerk Clarence Out of state visitors claim we live back George Taylor, 18, gradu• A. Jefferds will be pleased to know that he in the "Forest Primeval." Guess it is a fact ated with honors from has returned to his home after surgical for on Oct. 6 a 250-pound black bear was Pembroke High School treatment at the Bangor Osteopathic Hos• shot about one-eighth of a mile away from last Spring pital and is making good progress towards ^JH was a spare this office, in a thickly populated part of complete recovery. Lena Golden, stenog• the city. rapher in the office of General Car Foreman Recent visitor at the office was Retired Hartery, has been appointed acting chief Engineer H. E. Colby of 1404 Dexter Ave., clerk until the return of Jefferds, and Mrs. , -Q' i p a t c h e r at Warrington, Fla. "Rick" looks fine and is Shirley C. Wheeler, substitute stenographer, Bangor and operator at Vanceboro. just as jovial as ever. has taken Miss Golden's position. Bangor Operating He came to the Maine Central in Read where a locomotive builder was Donald E. Lambert, coach cleaner, and working on a device for a diesel whistle By MARY E. GIBBONS wTife, have become students at Bangor Eve• 1943 after 15 years' service with the that would sound like the familiar mourn• ning School. Donald is studying woodwork• ful wail of the steam locomotive. The item Mr. and Mrs. John C. Handy, parents of ing and his wife expects to become profi• Bangor and Aroostook. Here's his reflects America's reluctance to yield its ro• Clayton W. Handy, dispatcher, were hon• cient as a seamstress. column. mantic railroad past. ored on their 50th wedding anniversary at Carman R. L. Quimby, who is on Relief Engineer L. E. Sucy recently purchased their home in Mattawamkeag with a dinner Job #1 at Northern Maine Jct.; is enjoy• a two apartment home on 7th Street in Ban• party and family reunion. ing his annual vacation, his position being Dennysville gor. Taken from local paper "Thirty Years filled by Einar P. Johnson. The office force will enjoy some good crab Ago." "Little Bill Murphy and six year old Coach Cleaner Clayton Lambert is sport• By T. A. MCDONALD apple jelly this winter, thanks to the Fred Collins are on the program for the en• ing a new auto. A. 0. Jones, foreman, and Gilbert C. thoughtfulness of pensioned Machinist- tertainment to be given in connection with Leighton. Kichard Gardner, Byron Jones and Welder L. W. Cheeseman of Brewer Lake. the Railroad Safety rally in Society Hall. Payson Urquhart, trackman, have had their Larry says he has 30.000 live bait ready for Bill sings character songs and as his father Vanceboro vacations. the winter and spring fishermen. is Yard Conductor at Union Station, he will be heard with special interest by railroad By HARRY D. DAVIS Ronald McGarry, son of General Foreman Gilbert Leighton. trackman, has displaced men." Bill's father was John M. Murphy, Sympathy is extended to Section Foreman the trackman at Eastport. R. O. McGarry, was recently elected secre• who worked in Bangor Yard 43 years. tary-treasurer of the Sacred Heart Society and Mrs. Beryar H. Pine on the death Octo• Your correspondent was off the week of ber 6th at Calais hospital of their son at Bangor and took an active part in the Ralph J. Coffin, Jr.; has bid off the second Oct. 10. and was relieved bv Relief Agent Vaughn. He was a brother of Clerk M. O. C. R. Bowker. rallv for John Bapst High School boys, trick operator's job in superintendent's of• Oct. 6. fice, Bangor. Pine and of the wife of Trackman H. Little. T. W. Dempsey. East Machias. had off the We also wish to extend our sincere sym• week of Oct. 17. relieved by C. R. Bowker. Yard Brakeman A. P. York and Mrs. York pathy to Mrs. Theodore Hanson and her son R/A. Bowker has been appointed to cover are receiving congratulations on the birth Louis on the death Oct. 10 of their husband Calais. Dennysville. East Machias, Machias of a daughter. and father, retired Car Inspector Theodore second trick, and also second trick at Calais. C. B. Bannon has returned to the ticket II. Hanson, after a long illness. Louis is Byron Jones, trackman, section 183, is employed as clerk in office of local C. P. the proud owner of a new auto. office after acting as agent at Bar Harbor for the summer. Express Co. Burial of both was in Vance• J. L. Springer, agent at Ayers Junction, boro cemetery. R. E. Burnham, trainman, and Miss Edna and family, took a week-end trip to Moose- Retired Car Inspector T. W. Hanson, now head Lake recently. S. Kelley were recently married. We wish to extend best wishes to the couple. a resident of Pittsfield, was recently called II. A. Watts. MEC bus driver between here on the death of his son. He celebrated Dennysville and Eastport. is taking his an• A. B. Wood, stationmaster and Mrs. Wood, his 93rd birthday Tuesday Oct. 18. Despite nual vacation at Ibis writing, being relieved attended the Railroad Fair in Chicago. On his years he is hale and hearty and appears by Driver W. L. Warren of Bangor. their return they stopped off at Coney Is• much the same as when he was in car ser• land and saw the sights in Xew York, a vice here. Bangor Motive Power vacation Wood will never forget. Local C. P. Express Agent and Mrs. C. The Bangor area is acquiring new indus• VV. Moore are enjoying their vacation of By CHARLES H. LEARD tries. The Carbide and Carbon Chemicals two weeks. Former Agent M. W. Moore, Safety Bul'etin Board reads 345 days up Corporation is building a new track at father of "C. W." is pinch hitting for him. to October 17. McGarry says keep up the Green Point Road, Brewer ; Sears, Roebuck Those on vacation since last issue include good work, boys, and we will soon have a CELEBRATING 50TH ANNIVERSARY of their marriage are going to build a new warehouse mi Ham• Clerks R. G. Smith, C. E. Beers, Villa T. year's record and will strike out for the recently was retired employe John C. Handy and wife, mond Street location ; Dunham and Hanson Wescott and Yard Brakeman A. E. Tracy. second year's record. Mattawamkeag. The couple were guests at a dinner are taking over the former site of Stickney Those noted enjoying vacations on Cus• Miss Marlene Caruso, daughter of Hostler party arranged by members of the family. "Clayt" & Babcock and building a warehouse with a toms staff include Deputy Collector in and Mrs. Pasquale Caruso, entered the entered service in the old engine house at Matta• new side track. If we can get a few more charge F. R. Reed, Deputy Collector A. J. Eastern Maine General Hospital Oct. 13 for wamkeag in 1903. He retired in 1945. Son Clayton it might make up for what we lost at the Dickinson, Inspectors D. C. Clark, B. E. an appendectomy. W. is a train dispatcher at Bangor Air Base. Frost and P. McDermott.

20 21 General Agent W. L. Blanchard and En• John Conroy, loader and caller, who died secretary of the Bowling League formed of gine House Foreman A. M. Scott attended Oct. 4. Conroy was employed May 7, 1917. the different departments, has made a very the supervisor's club meeting at Waterville, Cards have been received from John T. WINNER of a caddy's unique chart to use in figuring out percent• Oct. 13. Curran, loader and caller, freight house, and tournament at Portland ages both of individual players as well as Diesel switcher 954 arrived here Oct. 15 his wife, who are on an extended tour of Country Club recently teams. for yard service. California, including a trip to the Grand was Jimmy Ashley, son Boilermakers Helper Rudolph Phillips has Clerk M. E. Beers and Mrs. Beers and Canyon. of Hostler's Helper gone to Connecticut with his family since Mrs. It. Beers, BN, wife of Trackman R. We extend our sympathy to the family of James Ashley, Rigby furloughed to work- in the Bigelow-Sanford Beers, have just returned from Boston with Freight Checker Dennis J. Shea, who were rug mills. B. Walls, of Lambert Lake, father of Mrs. called to Springfield, Mass., by the death of M. E. Beers, having accompanied Mr. Walls his sister, Mrs. Catherine Malia. Also to The safety board now reads 417 days on there for medical treatment. Mr. Walls is the family of Walter S. Murray, police lieu• the 20th of October. employed as brakeman on Bangor & Aroos• tenant, on the recent death of his wife. spare moments. He is also getting some Machinist Hebert Smith visited the shop took UK. Margaret T. O'Donnell, mechanical device work at the shop. recently to get information on the diesel Janitor H. J. King is coming along nicely operator, has returned after an enjoyable work to be performed at Bartlett Engine on the building of his new home on Hol- trip to New York City, N. Y. She was ac• We were sorry to hear that Stores De• House soon. brook Street. The weatherman is to be companied by her sister, Mrs. Mary E. Mc- partment Clerk Hugh Flynn's wife's brother died recently. I received report of the death of the wife thanked for his help in progressing the Cann. of Machinist Helper Alexander Wright on work. Edwin C, Jr., son of Eddie Noyes, inter• Machinist Helper Theodore Maillett had October 22. A floral tribute was sent from F. Cunningham, a familiar employee at change clerk, is on his annual cruise with an operation for mastoids, but is coming the boys at the shop. station restaurant has been absent from the U. S. Naval Reserve, out of Norfolk, Va. along nicely, and should be back to work duty for some time due to illness. We learn Herbert L. Ross, rate and waybill clerk, soon. A series of diesel classes will soon be inaugurated. There will be motion sound lie is much improved at this writing. has resumed his duties after being absent Daniel Malia son of Laborer Martin Malia Immigrant Inspector D. E. Corbett and three weeks with a sprained ankle. pictures shown illustrating the different won a prize at the Catholic Church Bazaar tasks to be performed on the diesels. such Mrs. Corbett, who have been on vacation James E. Malia, clerk in cashier's office, valued at $150. managed to take in three of the world series and his wife, spent their annual vacation in as oil changes, and various other jobs. games at Yankee Stadium and Ebbetts Field. New York City and St. Louis, Mo. Thomas Brown, foreman now on sick Several of the boys took advantage of the Rate and Waybill Clerk John R. Stanton leave, informs us of the death of his broth• deer hunting season opening in the northern and wife spent their annual vacation in er v. iii, was a fur r Boston and Mai m- counties, and their successes were about the Washington, D. C, and Richmond, Va., stop• ploye and who had resided with him for same as usual. ping at New York City and Boston en route. quite a few years. We were all pleased to see Lindon P. The shop welfare fund has paid three sick Brown, former rate and waybill clerk. Bill• claims for the month and still carries a ing Department, who was a recent visitor. comfortable balance. "Brownie" now resides in Dexter. Machinists Theodore Cote and Russell Among those attending the Nelson Eddy Hammond and their families, visited the Rigby Yard concert recently at Portland City Hall were State House at Augusta, and then journeyed By GEORGE MARCROFT Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Kenny, and "Billy" on to Belfast, Oct. 4. It was the Cotes' Glen, all employes of the freight office. 27th wedding anniversary. Yard Clerk C. D. Soper has returned to We hear that Hugh A. Sweeney, superan• his duties at the yard office after enjoying nuated watchman, is contemplating a trip Some of the boys at the shop took their his annual vacation, visiting Montreal and to Ste. Anne de Beaupre. Quebec. last fling at the fairs and the horse racing various points in New York. His position Loader and Caller Angelo M. Cardone has as the season closed. was covered by Marty Concannon. resumed his duties at the freight house after Sheetmetal Worker Archie Pratt has built Yard Conductor C. E. Billings died Oct. a lengthy absence due to illness. It's good a strawberry pyramid. That is frame made 17. He had been employed by the Portland to see you back, Angie. to resemble a pyramid and the strawberries Terminal Company for 42 years. Joan Foley, daughter of Loader and Caller are planted on the different layers. Yard Conductor P. F. Ridge is confined Patrick J. Foley, was a patient in the Mercy to a local hospital. Motion pictures were shown at the Port• Hospital recently, where she underwent a land Tractor Company plant. They were Quite a number of yard employees made tonsillectomy. Glad to hear she is O. K. now. foliage viewing trips to the White Moun• demonstrating the Bosch injector and fuel General Agent William P. Kelley and As• pump the heart of the diesel engine. Many tains during October. sistant General Agent James P. Jordan, have Latest product from the farm of Yard of our boys attended, and three were luckj- resumed their duties after enjoying vaca• winners of prizes offered. Machinists Edwiii Clerk H. L. Piston is the butternut squash tions. he had been passing out among his co-work• Temm won a $25 credit on any purchase at We wish to extend our sympathy to I rank the A. II. Benoit store in Portland. Lucien ers at Rigby. N. Mulhearn, former watchman in the Has anyone found out yet bow a certain Carignan won a carton of Burnham ami freight house, on the recent death of his sis• Morrill's products, and Machinist Helper party secured tickets to the first two World ter ; also to Ralph M. Cady, formerly em• Series games in Yankee Stadium ? I got my William Brume won a set of pastel shades ployed as freight clerk, on the death of his breakfast dishes for six. money back ! Probably I should have con• father, Stephen H. Cady, former assistant tacted the editor? chief of police in Portland. Machinist Helper Frank Tokarski is a The nimrods have their guns all polished We never hear from "Peggy" Flaherty, busy man lately. He is doing quite a bit of up and at the time of this publication we repairs around home and putting in a new- former mechanical device operator, and now bathroom. should be having some of those delicious employed in the Per Diem Bureau, Rigby, deer steaks. Many thanks for the gift of and we want her to know we miss her Mrs. Smith a former employe of the rail• the partridges. Nothing like having a deep cheerv smile and would like to see her at road at the Rigby diner during the last war. freeze to store the birds and steaks in. least once in a while. How about it. Peggy? has opened up a lunch room. It is built in Will take-this opportunity to inform all Our best wishes are extended to Ivan La- the shape of a caboose. Laborer Martha of the Portland Terminal Yard employees Bree, who has been seriously sick. He is Bouchard who formerly ran the diner on the we can use plenty of snapshots. Supply is mechanical device operator and Ludwig property has leased it. exhausted. Nuff sed ! Starling's landlord. Machinist Helper Maurice Weeks has pur• chased a house at Cumberland Center and Portland Freight Office and Rigby Engine House is now making extenisve repairs on it. Freight House By ALBERT B. WETMORE Boilermaker George Rankin announces the wedding of his daughter Pauline to Private By ALICE MCLAUGHLIN AND MARJORIE J. "Eddie" Prater, one of our furloughed Ernest Rash. October 12. BATTING for Billy Bond as engineman of the Union QUIGLEY machinist helpers, is doing a little advertis• Station crew is Conductor Fred Larkin while Jimmy Stores Department Clerk Joseph Malloy. Clark, brakeman, stands in the gangway Sympathy is extended to the family of ing stunt for station WMTW during his

22 23 FOUND IN THE ARCHIVES of Norridgewock Station was the old timer above. Location and crew unknown. The tender has "Somerset Ry" on it and it has been suggested it's somewhere between Oakland and Bingham. Below, left, forwarded by Trainman S. L. Ross, Lewiston, is Maine Central 133 4-4-0 type taken at Lewiston in 1907. Right, at Mt. Desert Ferry, year unknown with decorated engine 79. Crew left to right, Burr, engi• neer; Nate Speed, fireman; Snap Mishou, brakeman; Estabrook, conductor

Forwarded by Retired Carman J. B, Brown, Brunswick, this unusual view of the Rumford roundhouse in 1892!