Word: railroadmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business well enough to go in further, thought it was a good idea to put some millions of its enormous resources into buying a piece of Pullman Co. Pullman, No. 1 freight and passenger car builder, can produce 2,370 passenger cars a year, 74,700 freight cars. Conservative railroadmen shuddered, in spite of G. M.'s cheap financing aid, efficient engineering methods, at the idea that an automobile outsider should shoulder into the railroad aristocracy. To not so spry U. S. rail-engineering, it would hold out the promise of a good shaking up at the hands...
...Railroadmen thought the accident might have been due to insufficient water in the boiler. Last week the disabled locomotive stood boarded up at Xenia, Ohio, awaiting inspection by the Interstate Commerce Commission...
Railroadman recalls the flavor of Casey Jones or The Wreck of the Old 97. It tells of railroading in the days before air brakes and automatic couplers-when there was no standard-gauge track; when engines were thrown into reverse to bring them to a sudden stop; when railroadmen were the true aristocrats of labor, with something of the prestige transport pilots have nowadays...
...December, 1,200 members of the Union Pacific R. R.'s Old Timers' Club (20 years or more with the U. P.) played host at an impressive golden wedding banquet for President Carl Raymond Gray and Mrs. Gray. Also in attendance were 27 top-flight U. S. railroadmen headed by President John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads, and 150 bigwigs from other businesses. Toastmaster at the banquet was bald-pated William Martin Jeffers, 61, U. P. executive vice president, who last week was named by Chairman William Averell Harriman to succeed Mr. Gray...
...tons of less-than-carload freight shipments. By 1935 volume had fallen 74% to 14,036,154 tons. Chief reason was the competition of highway trucking. Truckmen claim that railroads are foolish to bemoan the decline because the roads must handle such freight at a loss anyway. But railroadmen want all the business they can get. Last January, in an attempt to recoup, railroads in the West and Southwest got Interstate Commerce Commission approval for a "store-to-door" service. At both ends of the rail haul the roads furnished trucks to pick up or deliver freight free. There...