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Trains Magazine 1951 December Miles of Memories Trains & Travel Rochester NH
Trains Magazine 1951 December Miles of Memories
56 Pages
Railroad news and editorial comment. By David P. Morgan.6
Hell and high water. ----14
Out of the destructive floods in the Midwest this summer came this fact: the railroads can handle any emergency that nature or man can throw at them.
Rochester, New Hampshire. By David K. Johnson. --20
Here is a city that has just about lost its railroads. A private line and a branch are all that remain.
Miles of memories. By Linn H. Westcott.--22
Travel with a railroad historian and tracer of old rights of way over some of our abandoned railroads.
Photo section. The railroad scene in pictures.27
Texas & Pacific engine 706, 27; Rock Island at Iowa City, 28; Reading coal drag, 28; TH&B roundhouse, 29; PRR in the Alleghenies, 29; Union Pacific's Dale Creek trestles, 30-31; Soo Line No. 18, 32; Georgia & Florida, 33; Maine Central, 33; servicing an NYC 4-8-4, 34; Esquimalt & Nanaimo, 35; Lackawanna's Martins Creek Viaduct, 35.
Dunsmuir's in the middle. By W. H. Hutchinson--36
A community clinging to the side of a mountain is headquarters for Southern Pacific's only all-single-track division.
Water on the fly. By Harry M. Treat.42
In the days of 4-4-0's, the Boston & Maine used track pans to fill the tenders of its expresses.
The end of a tradition. By E. John Long.---44
It was bumpy, it was agonizing - or so its nickname said - but the Baltimore & Annapolis was nice to ride.
ON many and many a railroad, the public relations department is a harried, hard-working ex-newspaperman behind a desk in a one-room office. His staff usually consists of an assistant, a secretary and a photographer. His duty is to see that his road gets a "good press," but he must also get out an employee magazine monthly, run errands for the president, pose pretty -girls in front of diesels, lay out newspaper ads, proofread the next timetable, and keep on good terms with the traffic department.
Much of what he writes and says must be filtered through the company's security sieve, which can be a pretty thankless and devastating routine. Too many officials of the old school can either see no need for releasing the road's story or they are reluctant to publish any data that does not entirely reflect well upon the carrier. This is a subconscious throwback to the rap that railroaders took when Billy Vanderbilt growled, "The public be damned," and there's not much a public relations director can do about it.
There are happy exceptions to this rule of thumb. When Robert R. Young took an active hand in the operations of the Chesapeake & Ohio, he overhauled the road's public relations force by hiring young men who knew very little about railroading but a great deal about publicity. The result was that both Mr. Young and the C&O secured a stature in the papers and magazines all out of proportion to their actual importance in the industry. Only an illiterate person could profess not to have seen the slogan, "A hog can cross America but you can't!"
One of the most masterful public relations jobs in all of railroad history was pulled off by John W. Barriger after he secured the presidency of the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville. Like Mr. Young, Mr. Barriger had his own ideas on how a railroad should be run. But in one fell swoop he also convinced investors of the Monon's sound future, became a shirt-sleeved friend of labor, and aroused a dormant sympathy in the hearts of Hoosiers for Indiana's home-town
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