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Trains Magazine 1959 May What is a railroad
Trains Magazine 1959 May
May 1959Volume 19 Number 7
NEWS5
NEWS PHOTOS -8
WHAT IS A RAILROAD?16
HOW MANY HORSES?22
ARTIST AND THE RAILROAD27
STILL THE FASTEST . . .40
Railway post office 52Second section 53
Stop, look & listen 53Running extra 57
Interchange 58
COVER: Looking east down Southern Pacific's main line near Lancaster, Calif. By Steinheimer.
WHEN DOES MR, LAW GET HOME?
RELAX. There's no sermon this month. At least once a year we like to take sabbatical leave of railroading's 1001 "rising dangers" and "chronic ills" and just reflect on a few of the marginal notes that slip into the news basket. For instance, we've been speculating on whether M. J. Law, an insurance broker of Savanna, Ill., proves that the commuter need not be a burden to his railroad. You see, Mr. Law maintains his office in Chicago. Each morning at 6:24 a.m. he left Savanna on Milwaukee Road No. 112, the City of Denver, which arrived Chicago at 8:45. He caught No. 111 at 4:30 p.m. and was home for dinner at 6:38, having completed a 276-mile round-trip that put to shame those brokers who boast of their 182.6-mile Philadelphia-New York daily circuit on Reading's Crusader. So dependable was Mr. Law's commuter train with domes that during a snowstorm last winter he was the first to arrive at his office, having handily outpaced those employees bogged down on Chicago's transit system. His advice: "Move to Savanna and ride the City trains." Assuming Mr. Law works a five-day week, we figure his commutation fare totaled $1973.40 a year, and we suspect that the Milwaukee Road would not have been adverse to having a great many more Chicagoans emulate his example.
Now hear the plea of Mr. Earl Wil-banks of Du Quoin, Ill., who declares, "We've been photographed so often lately that we should be getting pay as actors from someone." Mr. Wilbanks, an Illinois Central brakeman, spoke those words last January to St. Louis Post-Dispatch writer Wayne Leeman as they pounded along between North Cairo and Carbondale, Ill., aboard No. 2504, a 4-8-2 hauling 51 cars and 1670 tons at a steady 50 per. Well now, there are so few steam locomotives left that the Brotherhoods will probably not raise the issue at the bargaining tables this fall, but we think Mr. Wilbanks has a point. Steam engines and the men in their cabs are inseparable from the photographer's point of view. Or the recorder's, for that matter. Who else makes the whistle yell, then sob . . . or gives some black, boiling smoke on the appointed curve . . . or waves to the envious lineside train-watchers?
Speaking of steam, we suspect that President John E. Tilford devoutly wishes that his Louisville & Nashville were 100 per cent dieselized. Its trains are, of course, but the 4-4-0 General of Andrews Raid fame is still on the property, comfortably parked inside L&N's soon-to-be-relocated Chattanooga Union Station. Technically, the Rogers-built engine belongs to the Georgia-owned
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