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L&N Employee Magazine Louisville & Nashville 1956 January
L&N Employee Magazine Louisville & Nashville 1956 January
CONTENTS
PULSE POINT OF OUR RAILROAD'S MAILSome 35,000 pieces of mail-even double that amount-pass through the L. & N. central mailing bureau at Louisville every day, and the biggest share of that Company mail is handled as an "inside" job M. J. RoBards 4
TARGET FOR TODAYAre you the target? Are you the guy it's going to happen to today? If it does happen, will you be to blame because you were careless? H. E. Deitz 9
THE LITTLE COLONEL LIVES ONNear the L. & N. main line at Pewee Valley, Ky., is "The Beeches," last home of Annie Fellows Johnston, creator of the beloved "Little Colonel" stories Rowland Stockk 10
BUSINESS REVIEW FOR 1955, AND OUTLOOK FOR 1956 John E. Tilford 13
THE ATLANTA CYCLORAMA OF THE BATTLE OF ATLANTAPreserved for posterity is a huge oil painting in Atlanta's Grant Park showing in graphic detail the battle between Confederates and Federals for possession of the city, July 22, 1864Edison H. Thomas 14
"HEADIN' FOR THE LAST ROUNDHOUSE"Resting in peace in the Museum of Transport near St. Louis are many ancestors of America's modern transportation systems Cole Carr 16
UNCLE BILL SKILLIN AND MA RIDE "THE GEORGIAN"Uncle Bill and his wife don't travel much but when they do, they always travel in style Hollis C. Franklin 20
GOD'S FOUR LITTLE ACRES IN ALABAMAThe Ave Maria Grotto is a work of devotion-a wonderland in miniature-created by a humble Benedictine monk at St. Bernard Abbey, located just one mile east of L. & N.-served Cullman, Ala. Lou Nash 24
THE CITIES WE PROUDLY SERVE-KNOXVILLE, TENN.Seventh in a series picturing interesting and unusual views of cities along the Old Reliable 32
AND OTHER FEATURES
THE READERS WRITE 2
TRAFFIC-AIDERS 3
OUR FURTHER PROGRESS 18
THE RAILROAD WORLD 19
TOTE EXPANDED TO TOTE MORE 22
ALABAMA INCOME TAX NOW BEING WITHHELD 22
HERE'S WHAT EMPLOYERS LOOK FOR IN A COMMUNITY 22
$2 MILLION EXPRESS SHIPMENT MOVES VIA THE FLAMINGO 23
THE CASE FOR VOLUNTARY UNIONISM 26
WHAT'S IN A NAME?-$100,000 THAT'S ALL 1 27
VETERAN LOCAL SURGEON SUCCUMBS 27
FRIENDLY TIES 28
J. C. EMRICH, VETERAN FREIGHT CLAIM AGENT, RETIRES 29
NEWS OF THE CLUBS 30
YEAR CLOSES WITH FLURRY OF BUTTONS AND WATCH PRESENTATIONS 34
EIGHTY FOR EIGHT 37
OF FEMININE INTEREST 38
CONGRATULATIONS 39
WHY DID IT HAPPEN? 41
NON-OPS AND CONDUCTORS EACH RECEIVE PAY INCREASE 43
PASSENGER TRAFFIC HELPERS 43
SPORTS ON THE OLD RELIABLE 44
GIANTS OF THE PASTby E. C. Sparks 46
WISE AND OTHERWISE 47
RAILROADING WITH A DIFFERENCE by J. G. Bogle 48
EACH INDIVIDUAL NEEDS "PUBLIC RELATIONS," TOO 49
A WEATHER REPORT by E. Harry Alexander 49
ABOUT THE FAMILY 50
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