·~-PUBLISHED FOR EMPLOYES AND FRIENDS OF THE NEW HAVEN RAILROAD ~ ,

September, 1959

ELECTRONIC HUMP PLA1

NNED AT CEDAR HILL Clearance Changes On Main Lines Will

Boost Piggyback Clearance changes being made

this summer on our Maybrook­Cedar Hill and Cedar Hill-Boston lines will place our railroad in a trong position to increase piggy­

back business. Last month clearances were cor­

rected between Maybrook and Cedar Hill to permit the u e of 12' -6'" trailers on 3' -8" flat cars. By October 1, the corrections will be completed to allow the taller piggybacks on the Cedar Hill­Boston run.

To do the job properly, we had to depress tracks through tunnels,

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NEW COVERED GONDOLA especially tailored for the brass in­dustry is expected to boost our carloadings. Fifteen of these will pro­tect brass products shipped from the Naugatuck Valley as part of our stepped-up drive for more freight business.

Freight Representatives to Arrive From Over Nation for Sales Meeting

Modern Weighing, Retarding Mechanism Will Speed Freight Yard Classification

Cedar Hill, the heart of our freight operations, will be modernized by electronic hump devices. ew electronic re­tarding and weighing equipment, plus additional trackage, i planned for the Eastbound Classification Yard.

Moran Is Appointed Supt. • Frt. Terminal

The appointment oI Frank E. Moran, Jr., as Superinlendenl­Freight Terminal, with headquar­ters at Cedar Hill, was announced this month. l\1r. Moran ,, as Asst. Supt. at Grand Central.

For the past ix months the Com­pany has been studying the instal­lation of the new humping devices. The recent fire which destroyed our bridge over the Quinnipiac River linking the westbound classi­fication and departure yards has­tened the need to put the modern­ization into effect.

There will be little change in the sequence of the yard operation. Trains will bring in their freight cars to the receiving yard. The cars will be pushed up the hump to glide separately to various tracks where trains for different destina­

ra~se tr~lley wires,. shift signals, STEEL STRIKE FORCES j . Launching a drive ':hich :will raise bndges and, m at least one aim for $90.0001000 m freight

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through the Under the new system, however, posts of Car In- each car will be weighed as it spector, Fire- passes over the hump and that

It is another indication of our A serious cutback in our freight will gather late this month for a of more than 1000 cars a month, 1 1 t· efforts to tailor our railroad opera- genera sa es mee mg.

tion to the needs and desires of caused by the continuing steel Representatives from our offices our customers.

COVERED LONG GONS SERVE BRASS FIRMS Fifteen brand-new gondola cars

52 feet 6 inches in length, equipped with specially designed loading racks and bulkhead devices, and costing more than $200,000 are scheduled to arrive on our property sometime this month.

strike, has forced us to make re- as far as San Francisco will meet ductfons in personnel. in New Haven Sept. 30 through

For the first half of this year, Ootober 3 for meetings, panel dis­our freight traffic was running six cus ion , conferences and dinner to seven per cent over last year, get-togethers. Company plans and but the strike has turned our policies will be explained and a freight increase to a decrea e of campaign laid out to boost our more than five per cent. freight sales in 1960.

In the first month of the steel On the first day, staff officers strike, several freight trains were will take part in an afternoon pro­consolidated. As the income loss gram of acquainting the field men grew, however, efforts to absorb it with home office developments. and maintain full employment President Alpert will be the main

Their acquisition provides a finally reached a point where we speaker at a dinner that night. concrete example of our new policy had to adjust our per onnel to the The next day, agency heads will

Continued on page 4 situation. give their ideas for increasing sales. Directing the campaign plans will

K LI, L N d r 11 p d he Regional Frt. Traffic Mgrs. Un dCn ame rirst Y ice resi enf hank C. Baker, Samuel W. Hutch­

ings, John J. Murphy, Ralph W.

C d • f • f N Q D f Xicholas and Harry K. Thomas. 00f Ina Ing OUf On• p ep S. Speakers include Frank J. Gill, TM,

A. Gerdes Kuhbach

The designation oI A. Gerdes I uhbach, former Vice Presidenl­Finance, as First Vice President was announced last month.

Mr. Kuhhach will be in charge of the Accounting, Law, Real Es­tate and Finance Departments. The appointment i designed to place additional importance and respon­sibility on the coordination of those important areas in the non-operat­ing portion oI our company.

Mr. Kuhbach began on the ew HaYen as Assistant Counsel in ew York in 1941. He was transferred to Xew Haven as Tax Counsel in 1944, was appointed Assistant Gen-

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Oxford Paper Co., Arthur C. Schier, GT~,1. General Foods and James B. Griffin, TD, Scovill Mfg. Co.

Conference ·meetings with TraI­fic Depl. Gen. \1grs. Arthur J. Miller, Harold Hartman, Fred J. Orner, Percy E. Benjamin and Eugene P. Sullivan will highlight Lhe follov. ing day's session and the final day will summarize the over­all meeting.

The meeting. under the general superYision of Vice President-Frt. Traffic Charles E. Ragland, will provide our sales representatives with the information. executive aid and enthusiasm needed Lo reach the $90,000,000 goal, an achieve­ment which will benefit every em­ployee as Kell as the Company.

Engineer weight will be taken into account by the electronic device so that just the right amount of retardation, or slowing-down pressure, is applied on the wheel as the car goes through the retarders. Thus each car will be traveling at the exact speed necessary to place it in posi­tion on the classification tracks.

to become Asst. Trainmaster in 1952. In 1954, he was named Trainmaster and served at ew Haven, Taunton, Readville, Provi­dence and Stamford before moving to GCT early this year.

Mr. Moran has been Command­ing Officer of the H-sponsored 729th Railway Operating Battalion. He is a Lt. Colonel in the Army Reserves.

This will mean greater efficiency and speed in sorting of cars and also smoother, bump-free coupling.

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Fair Exhibit Aims At Fun For Children, New Business

It's fun to ride the train. That's what we'll be telling, and showing, thousands of youngsters at this month's Eastern States Exposition in Springfield. At the same time, we'll be hoping to convince their parents, loo.

For the nine days oI the big fair, we'll have an FL-9 locomotive, rebuilt Coach 1000, Grill Car, Sleeper and a Piggyback exhibit on a siding in the exposition grounds. Y oungslers will become Honorary Engineers in the FL-9 cab and will tour the train, seeing all the features and receiving mall giveaways.

Efforts will be directed Lo in­crease our passenger busine s by stressing the ease of train travel and the economy of round trip and family fares.

It is probable that when the youngsters ride later on the system

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REW ARD - Eight-year-old Guy Mure of Stratford was promised a locomotive ride if his school marks improved in a plan devised by his parents and President Alpert. With such an incentive, the marks zoom­ed and Guy got his ride. Here he's on his way with Engineer Howard E. Mott.

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tensions 403-404. Leslie H. Tyler .................. ....... ................................... ....... .. .. Chief Information Officer

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LCL Taxpaying employees, and who

isn't, should be interested in the news that the Federal government has granted $1,691,000 for i:n­provements at the East Boston air­port .. That sum is about equal to the annual tax payments on South Station.

Cost Accountant Kenneth Cole's son, Kenneth, has been named captain of the USS Wagner, one of the Navy's de­stroyer escorts.

As rest of employees switched over to weekly paychecks last month, Accounting Department is­sued a new check form, part of which gives a full statement of de­ductions. It also notes that the Company pays toward your pension plan an equal amount ,to that de­ducted from your pay ... a con­tribution by the Company last year of $3,673,182. In addition, it paid an unemployment tax to which you are not required to contribute at all which last year amounted to $1,469,888.

Also carried on the new check is s ogan noting that the railroad is "A vital force in New England's economy." The $80,000,000 paid in salaries and wages last year is a signifi­cant factor in the economy of our region.

NH Tel. Opr. Nellie McNulty will have to double her babysitting duties . . . just became grand­mother of twins.

NORWAY GOES OUR WAY­Norwegian Air Cadets on a tour of Connecticut meet Ticket Col­lector John Swaine as they board # 8. The boys found rails as thrilling as flying as they went part of the way in the locomotive.

New booklet, "Family Fallout Sheker," with tips on constructing your own shelter against atomic radiation or natural disasters, can be obtained by sending a request to our Safety Department.

NYNH&H Veterans Associa­tion will hold its annual outing Sept. 26 at West Haven. Con­tact Harold Keach or Leonard Dorman for reservations.

New officers elected by the New Haven RR Athletic Association: George Klaiber, president; Frank J. Armstrong, 1st vice president; Helen Gilloran, 2nd vice president; Frances McCrann, 3rd vice presi­dent; Medore Aldi, treasurer; Charles Gunn, secretary. Named to the three-year executive committee were Jean Hofacker, James Foley and Arnold Rudnick.

FORGED BY NH SPIRIT is this silver anvil grasped firmly by New Haven members of the Railroad Community Committee of the Con­necticut River Valley on gradua+i'on to the ranks of public speakers for the railroad industry. Joseph Sample, second left, of Westfield, Mass., retired Freight Agent, was on hand as honors went to John W. Falvey, Jr., General Yardmaster at Springfield; Hugh Vaughn, Trainmaster at Hartford; Ralph E. Pierce, Traffic Rep. at Springfield, and Gerald J. Shea, Dis. T raffle Agent. Witnessing the exercises is Benedict T. Hines, Resident Information Officer at Boston, Publicity Cha_irman and Co­ordinator of NH activities in Railroad Community Committees of Bos­ton, Worcester and Springfield.

Two Big Industries Locate on ·Our Line

Two more nationally-known firms have picked New Haven Railroad sites for the construction of large plant facilities. General Foods Corp. plans a huge distribution center at Dedham and the R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. is building a $10,000,000 printing plant at Old Saybrook.

Our Industrial Development Dept. has been working on these projects since 1957 and the suc­cess in obtaining them on our line will mean hundreds of cars of freight and additional passenger business.

The General Foods plant will be located on 39 acres purchased from us and the building will have over 118,000 square feet of space to handle the six million pounds of products for the Jello, Post and Maxwell House divisions which will move through there monthly.

The new district sales and dis­tribution center will have indoor accommodations for loading and unloading 13 cars :brought in on a spur from our line.

The Donnelley company is known as the printers of Time, Li/ e and other magazines and the Old Say­brook location will be the firm's eastern printing plant to handle Li/e's eastern publication. The plant will be constructed on a 30-acre site on the south side of the main line a mile and a half west of the passenger station.

The Donnelley company con­sidered many sites in the east from Washington, D. C., north before selecting Old Saybrook as offering the best distributing location.

ELECTRONICS Continued from page l

The additional tracks will afford greater classification ability in the yard artd additional and longer re­ceiving yard tracks will be con­structed.

Consolidation of facilities at Cedar Hill has been possible since it is one of the largest yards in the East. It was designed in the period during and right after World War One when the New Haven freight car ownership was nearly 40,000 instead of the present 793"8. Actual­ly, the increasing government sub­sidization of our competition has made the consolidation mandatory.

Except for a short period follow­ing the bridge fire, classification has been proceeding in an orderly fashion at the Eastbound Hump.

While the initial effect of the new electronic devices will be a slight shrinkage of the employee force at the yard, the increased ef­ficiency will give better and faster service to our freight customers. This in turn is bound to bring in more business which, in turn, will eventually result in more employ­ment.

EASTE.RN STATES Continued from pa&e l

they may want to show their "Hon­orary Engineer" cards to members of the train crew. A Mt of kindness from our personnel when this hap­pens, welcoming the "fellow rail­roaders," will be a big help in making the children, and their parents, steady riders.

~iEW PAINT DESIGN is displayed here on DER #0418. Yd. Cond. Raymond E. Griffiths turns after admiring black and orange color which aims for better safety and lower maintenance.

New Paint Design for Locomotives Will Cost Less, Be Safer, Cut Maintenance

DUNN APPOINTED TO CAR AUDITOR POST

Frederick T. Dunn Jr. has been appointed Auditor of Car Service Accounts, succeeding Walter K. King who has been transferred to the Operating Department.

Mr. Dunn joined us in 1942 as a mes­senger. After holding various clerical posi­tions, he was named Car Ser­vice Inspector in 1947, Car

Service Asst. in 1955 and Asst. Supt. of Car Service in 1956.

In our Mecha.mcal Department, Wilson E. Symons has been ap­pointed Asst. Mech. Supt.-Locomo­tive Maintenance. Mr. Symons started on the New Haven as a Car Repair Helper in 1924. Since then he advanced through a number of mechanical supervisory posts in­cluding Master Mechanic and Me­chanical Engineer.

In Freight Traffic, two changes affecting our San Francisco office have been made. General Traffic Agent Joseph F. Carroll has been appointed Fuel and Foreign Traffic Mgr. at Boston and Traffic Rep. Frank R. Sewald has been pro­moted to Dist. Traffic Agent.

Mr. Carroll joined us as a Traf­fic Rep. at Chicago and was named to head our San Francisco office in 1946. Mr. Sewald started there as Chief Clerk in 1948 and was pro­moted to Traffic Rep. in 1950.

With the dual purpose of more safety and less maintenance, a new color scheme has been adopted for our locomotives and later will be used on passenger cars.

Nine of our diesel locomotives have been repainted. Under the new design the hard-to-clean white se~tions have been eliminated. A broad band of orange at eye level will increase visibility. Black paint on the upper portion and the top of the locomotive will mean greater economy.

The simpler design will lower re­painting costs and make it possible to paint more equipment for the same money.

An additional safety factor will be the use of Scotchlite reflective material for the NH insignia and the ncomotive numheFs.

The repainted power is being used mainly on the Maybrook line but will soon be seen on other parts of the system as more and more of the locomotives are done.

When we begin a passenger car repainting program the same col­ors and design will be used on them.

ALERT CREW Engineer Joseph F. McGoldrick,

Fireman Henry A. Lefebvre, Con­ductor William J. O'Brien and Trainmen George J. Reardon and David.A. Barbour were commend­ed .for spotting a fire in a plant at Hawleyville where they were switching freight. Their prompt ac­tion brought the fire department and saved the company's building from serious damage.

RAILROAD COMMUNITY COMMITTEE dinner-meeting with the ser­vice clubs of Auburn attracted a strong gathering to hear President Alpert speak. NH men chatting with the President are, left to right, John Chandley, Yard Clerk at Worcester, Richard J. Duggan, J,r., Trainmaster at Providence, John D. O'Conner, Freight Agent at Wor­cester, Frank C. Baker, Freight T raffle Manager at Boston, Joseph L. Thibodeau, Freight Agent at Auburn and chairman of the dinner, Paul E. O'Neill, former Superintendent at Boston, and Cornelius J. Meskill, District Traffic Agent at Worcester.

FIFTY YEAR AND RETIRING PERSONNEL RATE SAL TES

CHARL·ES L. GALLIGAN, second left, Storekeeper at South Boston Passenger Yards, receives his Fifty-Year Service Pin from George E. Dowling (right), District Storekeeper, as Albert W. Rohde, Director of Purchases & Stores, and Louise B. McAuliffe, Personal Stenographer, look on during ceremonies in Dowling's office at South Station.

HALF-CENTURY ceremonies saluting Thompsonville Agent Brainerd M. Spencer held in New Haven bring together: left to right, John J. Marr, Gen. Chairman, ORT; Trainmasters Craig Kelley, Hugh Vaughn and Richard Cummings; Mrs. Spencer, Trainmaster Joseph Gilson; Mr. Spencer; Trainmaster John Befus; Supt. Freight Terminal Frank Moran, Jr., and Trainmaster Eugene Wrinn.

LAST RUN of Engineer St. Clair Albert Wynot, third left, is marked here as he brought his Budd in from Blackstone. Left to right are Traveling Eng. Henry Mahoney, Supt. John H. Gregg, Mr. Wynot, his brother Ralph who is also an •Engineer, Mrs. Wynot and daughter-in­law and son, Albert. Engineer Wynot is retiring after 53 years service.

40-Year Veterans JULY

Emilio P. Kelly John J . Murphy Everett W. Pierce Dennis F . Reardon William M. Russell Joseph F. Souza William P. Sullivan

Chief of Spec. Serv. Frt. Traff. Mgr. Asst. Gen. Y dmaster Sec. Foreman Pass . Conductor-Bos. Frt. Conductor-Bos. Track Supvr.

KUHBACH Continued from page 1

eral Counsel in 1953, became Fi­nance Counsel in 1954, was made Financial Officer in 1956 and was elevated to Vice President-Finance last year.

LAST DISPATCH-John P. Lyons, center, receives good wishes on his retirement from Allan E. Plunkett, left, Chief Train Dispatcher, and Frank P. Doran, Assistant Superin­tendent, in ceremonies at South Station. "Joe" Lyons was an op­erator with the Canadian Pacific Railway be~ore joining the NHRR in 1914. He was Master Engineer of the Fourteenth Engineers in France in WWI, returned to the road and moved up to Assistant Chief Train Dispatcher.

~~RAiULATIO- S are ex­tended James P. Reynolds, right, by Aud. Pass. Receipts Edward F. Jones at dinner given Mr. Reynolds folto,wing his promotion to Chief Clerk, Dining Car Accounting. De­partment has been transferred from Boston to New Haven.

PRESENTATION honoring retire­ment of Bureau Head, Aud. Frt. Rec., Joseph Brough is made by Bur. Head John J. Blake at depart­ment party in Mr. Brough's honor.

RETIRING M&S Invoice Clerk Ernest L. Anderson, a 52-year vet­eran, receives gift from fellow workers presented by Asst. Compt. Ray C. Carmichael at testimonial honoring "Ernie" on his retirement.

CHIEF CREW DISPATCHER John D. Fynes receives his 50-year Em­blem in RR Y ceremonies in New Haven from Supt. Keith P. Young. Looking on are, left to right, Trainmaster Richard Cummings, Pass Conslt. Frank A. Brainerd, Chief Clerk Harold Hannon, Trainmaster Eugene Wrinn, Mr. Fynes, Mr. Young, Ret. Crew Dispatcher Ellis Jones, Crew Dispatcher Malcom K. Sweetman, Inst. Cond. Eugene J. Ronan, RR Y Sec. Elwood H. Stewart, Mach. Peter F. Petta, Ret. Flagman Merman Schrueter ·and Mach. Stanley Tolcz.

W·ELL WISHES on his way to retirement are given to George "Les" Gordon by co-workers at South Station. Chief Clerk in the Boston Terminal Company since 1948, Les accepts a gift presented by Paul W. Noyes, Auditor of the BTC. Witnesses include Priscilla Cummings, Clerk in the Trainmaster's Office and Mr. Gordon's daughter; Warren Van Gernert, BTC Clerk; Helen Engelson, Chief Clerk of Union Freight

n rgarer-Ro , -•er of mo ~re,9-hi-. es c-ame wi•r the rcu 111

1948 after having been with the Boston & Albany since 1911.

NAME Alice M. Ahearn Teresa 18. Barry Wallace E. Bearse Frederick V. Brutcher Edward B. Bums Harold L. Cahoon Robert Dempster Charles Evans John Farragher Edward M. Funk J r. Joseph C. Giglio Benjamin M. Gordon Bernard Healey William C. Hogan Joseph A. Miclette John J. Morris Henry F. Quint Clinton B. Richardson Charles IE. Roberts Nicholas Romanowich Earl H. Sabin Walter Sakowicz Charles S. Sawyer Joseph H. Scott l-Ia.rry E. A. Seaman Anna M. Sedgwick Edward J . Shea John H. Shepard Tony Silvia Charles W. Slattery William V. Smith Mae F. Snyder Rose 0. Sobiesiak Mrs. Agnes R. Spencer Alfred J . Staples William T. Stemmler Wilhelmine Sternberg Nicholas Sticco Kenneth Y. Stradley John P. Stratton

¥~~~~is RP. S~~fli !an Stephen Sumpter John Supranovich Anna M. Sweeney Otis N. Tanguay Anne F. Thomas Manning M. Thomas, Jr. Henry Thornton W illiam J . Tierney H arry S. Traphagen Frank T reani Cora R. Tremper Frank W . Turbert John H . Van W agenen Antonio Varano Rosario Vona Arthur B. Vosburgh Ida L. W ebb Roy F. W illiams Elliot •E. W ixon W illiam J. W ynne John A. 'Zabilowski

Retirements POST

Clerk-Rdvle Stores Clerk-Aud. 1Frt. Rects. Car Ins.-Bos. Agent-Bos. Trans. Storekeeper-Gen. Stores Agent-Bos. Trans. Machinist-VN Chief Clk.-Cos Cob Trk. Lab.-Bos. Machinist-Rdvle. Eng. PreJ,>.-Mbk Train D1sp.-Bos. Frt. Lab.-Bos. Agent-NH Div. Yd. Bkmn.-Bos. Telegrapher-NH Agent-NH Trans. Waiter-DC Dept. Clerk-Worcester Trk. Lab.-NH MofW Patrolman-Bronx Cannan-Rdvle. Crew Disp.-New London Pass. Trnmn.-NH Fireman-NH Car Clnr.-NH Conductor-NH Frt. Flagman-NH Trk. Lab.-Bos. Frt. Agent-NH Engineer-Bos. Tel. Oper.-H. Rvr. Laborer-Rdvle. Shops Oper .-Clerk-NH Asst. Sig. Maint.-Bos. Sheet Metal Worker-Mbk Clerk-A. of D. Trk. Lab. NH Flagman-Crossingman Pass. Condr.-Bos. Electrician-ET&C Asst. Watch IEng.-Rdvle . Fr:t. Lab.-H . Rvr. Lab.-'Bos. MofW Steno.-Bos. Clerk--NH Trans. Steno.-Stores D ept. Frt. Condr.-NH Trk. Lab.-'Poughkeepsie Cashier-GCT Machinist-NH Trk. Lab.-Bos. Clerk-N H Car Insp.-NH Eng. 'Prep.-Mbk Trucker-Rdvle. Stores Frt. Flagman-Bos. Engineer-NH Car Clnr.-Spfld. Asst. Purch. Agt. Laborer-Bos. Mech. Crossingman-NH Mechanic-W ork Equip.

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New Machines Speed Tie Work

TIE-MASTER'S articulated power arm slides over the top, down the right side and under to ram out the old t ie. Seconds later it grahs a new tie and pulls it under into position. The machine holds the rail and lifts itself on hydraulic stilts t o give more room for the operation.

SUBS AT SEA-Our Car Float 72 carries eight new subway cars from Greenville to Bay Ridge, part of an order frorri America n Car and Foundry Div., ACF Industries, destined fo r New York's Transit Aut hori­ty subway service.

On the main line at West Haven late last month we began full opera­tion of our modern tie renewal and track alignment machinery pur­chased this year. Mechanization brought speed and economy to the tie program, enabling us :to set an 80,000 tie goal. This is far more than we could have done with the same funds in the past. Pictures on this page show several pieces of tlie new equipment helping us improve our roadbed.

Retirement Benefit Total Grows Longer

About 5,120 men and women whose last railroad service was with the New York, New Haven & Hartford were receiving employee annuities from the Railroad Retire­ment Board at the end of 1958, the Board recently reported. Their an-11uities averaged $117 a month. About one-third of these employees had wives who were ,also receiving monthly 1benefits.

During 1958, 700 former New York, New Haven & Hartford em­ployees were added to vhe Board's retirement rolls, and 456 were taken off, mainly because of death. This resulted in a net increase of 244 during the year. The average award ,to those retiring in 1958 was $127 a month.

The Railroad Retirement Board points out that last year some 43,600 employees of the Nation's r.ailriyads retired on annuities aver­aging $125 a month. Of this num­ber, 77 percent retired beoause of old age and 23 percent because of disability. At the end of the year, the Board was paying an average of $116 a month to 354,500 retired annuitants; 128,900 of them had wives receiving wives' annuities averaging $48 .,,a month.

NEW GONDOLAS Continued from page 1

of making sure of freight business by getting such specialized equip­ment as may be necessary to make it easy and profitable for shippers to use our railroad. The new cars are expected ,to be a deciding fac­tor in securing for us a large vol­ume of brass tonnage which was in danger of slipping away to trucks.

Protects Brass Certain products of the brass

industry - particularly strip brass and sheet brass in coils - require protection from the weather. The only cars we owned which could be used for this type of freight were open gondolas or flat-cars, in which case it became necessary for the shipper to furnish tarpaulin covers to protect it.

Truckers on the other hand were able to provide this protection by transporting the freight in covered vehicles, and more and more of this business was in danger of slipping away.

We expect to keep the new cars busy plying back and forth be­tween the brass industries of the Naugatuck Valley and cities across the nation.

TRACK LINER-Piano wire stretched 125 feet between the two light carriages acts as a level. Gauges watched by Operator Sam Adams show when and where the machine clamps itself to the rail and brings down the power tampers to raise or lower the track. A -similar machine straightens the track alignment.

NEW MATTISA tamper, with powerful diesel engine , reaches its vi­brating arms deep into the ballast to firm the rock around the ties for a smooth roadbed and ride.

NAME Timothy J. Bannon Burleigh E. Bates Charles H. Bennett John A. Bethke Calvin W. Bragdon William M. Brown

kf~~/ iI~rc~ft Frederick D. Campbell Edson T. Chandler Oscar Clemons John F. Cling Malachy M. Conlin John M. Corr Henry P. Crawford William J. Cronan Gaetano D' Amico Thomas A. Davin Ferdinand J. DeiBruyn Anthony DeOrsi James A. Dickinson Charles J. Dinnean Vincenzio DiPalma George J. Doherty John P. Dowd Joseph J. Doyle James J. Dugan Dennis J. Dwyer Frank Esposito Mark · M. Faherty Walter L. Fitzpatrick Eben W. Forbes Joseph D. Cagnon Michael J. Gillespie Joseph E. Gilroy tawrence W. Gove John T. Harrington

~!ft~r ~: it~i';~~ Ralph W. Jeffery Charles E. Johnston Harold B. Lafond Joseph G. LaMotta Ralph B. McCormick John T. McDonald Chester C. Morton Harold S. Meeker Martin Mullen John H. Nayror Ralph G. Newcomb Christian J. Ottmer Fredric A. Parsons Frank H. Peckham Thomas S. Pelczarski John Polka Walter Pomroy Mario J. Prozzo Lemuel S. Rafter Frank W. Roach Tohn Roberts Jacob E. Roehr Hugh Rooney Albert Shaw Clarence H. Stannard William H. Stanton Robert M. Swift George F. Thayer Guiseppe V ano Michael A. Venezia Carl Washington Lester S. \'<lilmarth

Recent Deaths POST OR (R) RETIRED

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DATE OF DEATH

5-17-59 5-21-59 5-28-59 7-22-59 6-5-59 7-25-59 7-8-59 5-17-59 5-5-59 7-17-59 7-28-59 5-9-59 7-6-59 5-9-59 6-14-59 6-21-59 5-59 7-5-59 7-11-59 6-2-59 6-9-59 7-16-59 2-25-59 6-24-59 6-30-59 5-29-59 7-2-59 7-22-59 6-9-59 3-27-59 6-27-59 5-3-59 5-9-59 7-3-59 4-18-59 6-10-59 7-5-59 4-28-59 5-3-59 recently

7-3-59 7-12-59 6-11-59 6-28-59 6-22-59 5-19-59 7-22-59 5-3-59 5-13-59 5-15-59 6-30-59 4-30-59 6-4-59 4-24-59 5-3-59 7-24-59 7-5-59 5-25-59 5-1-59 6-23-59 5-2-59 recently

6-2-59 4-18-59 5-12-59 7-1-59 recently

7-10-59 7-30-59 7-11-59 7-6-S9