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L&N Employee Magazine Louisville & Nashville 1954 July
L&N Employee Magazine Louisville & Nashville 1954 July Staining Lower edges
CONTENTS
"MAC" HINES - MODERN-DAY JOHN HENRYMore and more mechanization is simplifying and speeding way-maintenance work all along our Company's road of rails M. J. RoBards 4
ONE IN A THOUSANDWilliam A. Davis, night chief dispatcher at Union Station, Louisville, is honored June 14 as the ,000th employe, to have received the Railroad's 50-year award Edison H. Thomas 8
JOE HORTON DISCOVERS TABBYAlthough tabby sounds as though it might be a cat's name, a DeCoursey yard clerk discovered after much study that it's also an important term in weaving William lt. Heffren 11
SINGING FOR THEIR SUPPERUnique in the railroad world is the extra gang caller, whose chanting rhythms help to put organized force into track lining DeSel Horne 13
CABOOSE 401 CALLING ENGINE 808!The recently installed two-way radio system on L. & N. freight trains passed the "test run" with flying colors and is now in service on some regular runs ....Cole Carr 14
ALABAMA SPUDS ARE "IN THE CHIPS"Farm-to-factory-to-consumer quality control of potato chips made by Red Dot Foods, Inc., of Madison, Wis., is tied in part to spuds raised in Mobile County, Ala. Steele Raylor 16
METALLIZING-NEW PARTS FROM OLDThe metal-spray process, now being used by the welding department at South Louisville Shops, enables shaft repairs to be made rapidly, easily and economically Lincoln Penn 19
A MOVIE CALLED "THE OLD RELIABLE"A motion picture covering the activities of the L. & N., now in the making, will soon be ready for release Rowland Stockk 20
RAIL FANS FIND RAIL TRIP "REAL GONE"Nearly 300 of the genus windblown rail-bird enjoy travel by train and the delights of a day in the open air on recent excursion to Carrollton, Ky. R. R. South 23
MARLEY OPENS WORLD'S LARGEST AT LOUISVILLEJune 19 marked the formal opening of the world's largest fabrication plant for production of steel water-cooling towers C. A. Boose 25
L. & N. VETS AND AUXILIARY TAKE BILOXIThe club's annual systemwide picnic, held in Biloxi, featured food, fun and frolic along the Gulf Coast's wide sandy beaches F. R. House 32
AND OTHER FEATURES
THE RAILROAD WORLD 1
THE READERS WRITE 2
FRIENDLY TIES 3
PERFECT DAYS-12,360 OF 'EM! 22
APPOINTED COAL TRAFFIC AGENT 22
RAILS SAFETY RECORD. STILL GOOD24
OF FEMININE INTEREST 26
RAIL TRAVEL HAS MANY ADVANTAGES 27
NINE SUGGESTERS EARN CASH IN JUNE 28
ACCIDENT PREVENTION IS STILL KEYSTONE OF SAFETY 29
THE BELLS ARE RINGING AGAIN 31
A START ON THE SECOND THOUSAND34
NEWS OF THE CLUBS 35
OVER 21,000 STUDENTS TOOK TRAIN RIDES THIS SPRING 36
RETIREMENT OF SPARTA, KY., AGENT BRINGS MEMORIES TO MANY 39
SPORTS ON THE OLD RELIABLE 40
PASSENGER TRAFFIC-HELPERS 42
TRAFFIC-AIDERs 43
OUR FREIGHT. BUSINESS 43
WISE AND OTHERWISE44
ABOUT THE FAMILY 45
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