~ PUBLISHED FOR EMPLOYES AND FRIENDS OF THE NEW HAVEN RAILROAD ~ , October, 1957 FOOD UNITS FOR LIGHTWEIGHTS BEING INSTALLED, ONE IN USE Installation of special dining Maybrook .Line CTC Planned and food preparation units in our three lightweight trains is Work Begun In East Section proceeding rapidly. One has al­ ready been completed, tested and Conversion of a 21-mile portion is in use. It will be a while long­ of our highly important Maybrook FLU SHOTS er, however, before all three of freight line to Centralized Traffic A voluntary program of the trains, complete with food Control is now underway, a project free Asian flu inoculations units, will be ready for our goal which is expected to be completed has been announced by Presi­ MAKING UP 1he new dinin~ area in the Dan'I Webster before a run in about seven months at a net cost dent Alpert. The company has of food service plus faster time. are Attendant Noreen MacD~nald on the left and Attendant Margaret of approximately $129,200. already ordered the vaccine The "Dan'l Webster" has already made revenue runs with its dining Taylor on the right as Inspector L. A. Wilson and Hostess Louise Driscoll According to Chief of Operations for the program and arrange­ check out the new facilities. C. Harry McGill, the new elec- ments have been made for the unit in operation. The compact Erlenmeyer mobile kitchen dishes tronic traffic system will be installed service of doctors at various out tasty meals quickly and efficient­ ■ ■ ; between Berea, N. Y. and Pough- locations on the line. ly to passengers seated in comfort­ C A GOODWIN SUCCEEDS WILLIAMS keepsie, N. Y. When in operation, When the supplies of vac- able low booths in the center sec­ it will enable us to save a large cine are delivered, notice of tion of the train. Du PR Ey 7 BEEBE 7 OTHERS ADVANCED amount of annual maintenance costs inoculation centers and dates The appointment of Charles A. there. We will keep the present and times will be given to all Meals Approved Since meal service was the major Goodwin as Acting General Pas- CARRY OUR PLIGHT west-bound track on which new rail employees, according to Safety senger Traffic Manager has been was laid in 1953, and retire the east- Direc_tor. Ja~es F. Toohey request of passengers earlier, the new equipment has been greeted announced by President Alpert. Mr. bound track except for a four mile who is directing the program. TO PUBLIC . ALPERT with approval. ~A- ·· c <; ,harles w ,-Jci· !~=,;======~=.:==~ _.... ...,..._..._ J<" ch :wl ich will b I £ ·n ola<; _ . ___ ____ ________ _ ea vi e, meanwn1 e, wor liams who has been named Execu- In a series of talks to supervisory in case we find the need for an ad­ is progressing on the units for the tive Representative Staff. Ten other employees in Massachusetts and ditional "run-around." This length COMMUTERS BACKING "John Quincy Adams" and the appointments have also been an- Connecticut, President Alpert has would be connected into the present "Roger Williams," with the work nounced since our lase issue. urged that everyone "tell the public track and trains would be switched BOOST OF OWN FARE on the former expected to be com­ Mr. Goodwin, who will be head- the facts" concerning our finances: on co it co allow by-passing. pleted first. quartered in New Haven, joined the our passenger deficit, and our need Approval of the project by the Overwhelming support for our railroad 30 years for action on his three-point pro- Board of Direccors has been given. request for a 16 cent hike in com­ All Made Test Runs All three have made preliminary ago as a reserva- gram of aid ... increased fares, tax Mr. McGill notes that the installa­ muter fares in Massachusetts lus test runs on the Shore Line to get tion clerk at South relief, and subsidies. tion, the first CTC since Tower 75 been expressed by a group of those Station. He rose New Haven employees are "the took over electronic switching in an idea of performance if we adopt most affected ... commuters. a 3:36 New York co Boston sched­ through the pas- finest group of ambassadors the the New Haven area between The favorable stand was taken at senger department railroad can have," said Mr. Alpert. Woodmont and Branford, is the ule. Full speed tests must await a meeting in Scituate where Presi­ completion of the dining installa­ and was named and they can carry our scory to the first of a plan for the whole May­ Manager of Pas- public and show that "we are not brook line. He says that present dent Al pert addressed a crowded tion and we must be sure that all senger Station asking for charity, all we want is hopes are to extend the CTC in audience, giving them a straight­ three can make the fast time with ease before adopting a speedier Services in 1947, Justice." 1958 from Poughkeepsie to Fair forward picture of our passenger Manager of the The president's talks were made Grounds, just outside of Danbury, and Old Colony commuter prob­ schedule. Travel Department in 1949 and as we filed for increased passenger Conn. lems. The meeting was sponsored The reduction in running time was promoted co Assistant to Gen- tariffs and packed audiences at Bos- The present work, expected to be by the Scituate Taxpayers Assn. and will be an important part of our eral Passenger Traffic Manager in ton and New Haven heard Mr. Al- finished in the early part of 1958 the Scituate Chamber of Commerce. efforts to compete with airlines and 1954. A year later he became As- pert state frankly that the "public involves the installation of equip­ Earle C. Morse, president of the it will enable us to give faster runs sistant General Passenger Traffic must be warned that a slight re- ment manufactured by the General taxpayers group, told a correspond­ along with the comfort and safety Continued on Page 3 of train travel. ____C_ o_n_ti_nue__d_on_ P_ag_e_2_________ C_on _t_in_u_e_d_o_n_P_a_g_e_4____ Rail way Signal Company. STRIPPED DOWN - The car for the dining unit in Roger Williams is CHOW'S ON - Platform Chef WELL ALONG is the work inside the John Quincy Adams as the kitchen cleared out so installation can start. Working here are, L. to R.: Carman James M. Hodges begins the meal unit is moved in and wired by, L. to R.: Trimmer Al Dennison, Sheet Metal Joseph J. Palumbo, Man. Rep. 0. B. H. Erlenmeyer, Pipe Fitter John preparation in the compact Dan'I Foreman Roland E. Gustafson, Manufacturer's Rep. 0. B. H. Erlenmeyer, Buckley, Carpenter M. E. DeMers, Sheet Metal Helper Johanna Pehrson, dining unit as he starts 1he coffee Electrician Walter Haslett, Pipe Fitter Thomas Martin, Carpenter Richard Sheet Metal Worker Kenneth Potter and Carpenter William MacGillivray. perking. Burke and Erecting Shop Foreman Alfred Gomes. PUBLISHED FOR EMPLOYES AND FRIENDS OF THE NEW HAVEN RAILROAD Published by The Public Relations Department of the New Haven Railroad. Editorial Office, Room 904, 54 Meadow St., New Haven, Conn. Phone LOcust 2-0131 Ex­ tensions 403-404. Relin Associates, Consultants. Leslie H. Tyler ................................................................ Chief Information Officer Robert S. McKernan .................................................................................... Editor LCL Our recent note on the "Sub­ A Southbridge, Mass., firm has marine RR" running from NY to filed an apparent low bid of $594,- WILLIAM ("BILL") JASPERS, Manager - Employment, retired from railroad service effective September Boston via Long Island developed 344 to prepare the roadbed for re­ 30. His office associates gave him a dinner at the New Haven Country Club. He is pictured here (left cen­ as we hoped, more information. By­ locating our track in connection ter) receiving a gift from David J. Leddy, Mgr., Labor Relations who acted as toastmaster. Those seated at ron Smith, our Freight Trafficman with the proposed Thomaston Dam the head table, left to right, are John Gaherin, Director Labor Relations and Personnel; Mrs. Jaspers; Earle B. turned historian, tells us the train in Connecticut. A warding of the Perry, retired Assistant Vice-President; and Ralph W. Pickard, former Director Labor Relations and Personnel. left Brooklyn at 8 a.m. daily back contract by the Army Engineers is in 1844 connecting with one of expected soon and the work may GOODWIN SUCCEEDS our Dining and Parlor Car Depart­ since 195 5 has been Chief Clerk in three boats at Greenport, LL, for begin by Nov. 1. Nine months is Continued from Page 1 ment, retired. the Personnel Department. train connections at Norwich one the estimated completion time. Director of Labor Relations and In New Haven, David J. O'Con­ Manager. He is a member of a num­ day and Stonington the next. The Personnel John J. Gaherin has an­ nor has been appointed Assistant ber of national railroad organiza­ trip took three and one-half to four Herbert Cheely, Stenographer in nounced two promotions in his de­ Trainmaster. He joined the line as tions, the New Haven Railroad hours to Greenport, two hours on the office of District Traffic Agent partment. David J. Leddy has been a Clerk in 1918 at Cedar Hill, be­ Club, the Boston Passenger Club the Sound, then four hours to Bos­ Omer McMurray in Richmond, Va., named Manager Labor Relations came Clerk, Engine Dispatcher, a and the Boston Railroad Com­ ton by train. Competition by rail has received this year's First Honor and Carl A. Tryanow has been ap­ year later and in 193 7 was appoint­ munity Committee. and water caused stoppage m A ward, presented by the Richmond pointed Personnel Assistant.