QUOTE: Originally posted by siberianmo For: smalling_60626 Allen, The Crescent, via Montgomery, AL, was a joint train of the L&N, PRR, SR and Atlanta & West Point. Depending on the era, one could easily see advertisements from those railroads. Tom[4:-)][oX)]
QUOTE: Although many an L&N passenger train had the duty of linking on-line cities, Louisville & Nashville was first and foremost an interline carrier, working closely with several other railraods in providing through passenger service between the North and South. Trains like the New York-New Orleans Crescent and Piedmont Limited involved the cooperation of four roads; Pennsylvania, Southern railway, Atlanta & West Point and L&N. which handled those trains between Montgomery and New Orleans.
QUOTE: Originally posted by siberianmo Hey Nick! Some guys simply don't care for the bar 'n grill idea ... so here's another option. Tom[4:-)][oX)]
QUOTE: Originally posted by siberianmo Hey cnw4001 Dale The last time I was in Cincy's Union Terminal was in 1960 - arrived and departed by the PRR from NYC. Was best man in my buddy's wedding. I understand there have been some fine things done with that structure and that's good. It has a unique design and is every bit a part of U.S. passenger railroading history as any other terminal in the land. Used to call Cincinnati "home" during a large part of my 32 year military career. Great city and surrounding area. We were "huge" Big Red Machine" fans back when that team was the class of both leagues. Nice place you call home! [tup] My early recollections of passenger railroads goes back to the 1940s and Pennsylvania Station in NYC along with Grand Central Terminal. Great places to see the trains - that is if the guy watching the gates would let you go down to the platforms. My grandpa always managed to "work" that out, and off we'd go to check out those gleaming beauties all lined up and ready to get movin'. Good memories for sure! Tom[4:-)][oX)]
QUOTE: Originally posted by siberianmo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ENCORE! ENCORE! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Number 1 of 9: . . . . . . . . . . more Vital than gold . . . . . . . . . . All the gold buried in Fort Knox, Ky., is less important to Victory than the rich iron ore deposits of the Mesabi, Cuyuna, and Vermillion ranges of northern Minnesota. The Mesabi range along contains the world’s largest developed deposits, and much of this ore lies in open pits. From these pits giant shovels scoop the vital “red dust” into Great Northern cars which dump it a few hours later into the docks in Duluth and Superior, at the Head of the Lakes. There ore boats are swiftly loaded for delivery to the nation’s steel mills. When the shipping season closed December 5, new mining records had been set on the mining ranges, and Great Northern Railway handled nearly 29,000,000 long tons – a third of the Lake Superior district’s total production. With the necessity of preserving equipment, Great Northern, between shipping seasons, is reconditioning motive power, cars, trackage and its Allouez docks in Superior making ready for a still bigger job in 1943. The fabulous iron ore deposits in Minnesota are only part of the wealth contributed to America by the Zone of Plenty – and delivered by this vital artery of transportation. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY ROUTE OF THE EMPIRE BUILDER - BETWEEN THE GREAT LAKES AND THE PACIFIC IN THE ZONE Of Plenty ********************************************************************************* Number 2 of 9 ”OVER HILL, OVER DALE, WE WILL RIDE THE IRON RAIL . . . AS THE PULLMAN’S GO ROLLING ALONG” Growing and GOING that’s the story of our armed forces. Growing every day and going every night, for long distance troop movements are usually under the cover of darkness, in Pullman sleeping cars. It’s a big job for the railroads to haul so many cars. And a big job for Pullman to provide them. But it’s a welcome job for both of us, one we’re proud and happy we were prepared to handle. Prepared? Oh, yes. The way Pullman and the railroads worked together in peacetime – through the Pullman “pool” of sleeping cars – fitted right into the wartime picture. Here’s how that “pool” works: > Railroad passenger traffic in different parts of the country fluctuates with the season. Travel south, for instance, is heaviest in winter. And travel north increases in the summer. > If each railroad owned and operated enough sleeping cars to handle its own peak loads, many of those cars would be idle most of the year. > With the Pullman “pool,” however, over one hundred different railroads share in the ability of a sleeping car fleet big enough to handle their combined requirements at any one time. As the travel loads shifts north, south, east or west, these cars shift with it. They are seldom idle for when fewer cars are needed on one railroad, more are needed on another. Now that war has come this “pool”operation of sleeping cars enables troop trains to be made up on short notice – at widely scattered points – and routed over any combination of railroads. That’s what we meant when we said that Pullman and the railroads were prepared to handle the tremendous mass movement of troops that goes on constantly. It takes a lot of sleeping cars to do it. Almost drains the Pullman “pool” at times. As a result, civilian travelers are sometimes inconvenienced. But the war comes first with the railroads and first with Pullman – just as it comes first with you! AN AVERAGE OF MORE THAN 25,000 TROOPS A NIGHT NOW GO PULLMAN Buy War Bonds and Stamps Regularly! ************************************************************************************ Number 3 of 9 One passenger – or one million Those carefree days when a man could almost as easily as he’d are out for the duration. Folks have to share the railroads with the Army and Navy, just as they’re sharing everything else these days. We wish we could still offer you an unlimited choice of departure times and accommodations, but more than a million and half troops per month must be cared for first. That takes a lot of cars and a lot of locomotives. It takes the time of a lot of railroad men, for these movements must be handled swiftly and secretly. After meeting all the vast demands of a nation at war, we are not always able to serve the public as well as we’d like to – but nevertheless with a little cooperation, we’ll get you where you have to go. Transportation is our business as well as our duty - and we want you to know that every railroad man worthy of the name has his heart in the job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Association of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . American Railroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Washington, D.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . United for Victory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ***************************************************************************** Number 4 of 9 . . . . .”Keep “Em Rollin’ . . or Else!”. . . . . says grandpappy engine 2414 to a 1942 Santa Fe Freight Diesel “Back in ’98, in the Spanish-American War,” reminisces little Old-Timer 2414, “20 cars was an average-length freight train. By World War I, we’d upped our Santa Fe freights to an average 35.9 cars. Not bad railroadin’, that.” “Not bad is right,” answers the big new freight Diesel, “but not good enough for World War II. Now we’ve stretched ‘em out another 41% to 50.9 cars, and those cars are bigger, loaded heavier, and rolling farther and faster.” “Good work, son,” says Old-Timer. “Yours is the BIG war job. Keep ‘em rollin’ – or else!” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KEEP ‘EM ROLLIN’ – OR ELSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * No nation that does not possess efficient mass transportation can hope to win a modern war. In America that mass transportation job is squarely up to her railroads. If they fail, we lose. Neither battle gallantry nor industrial wizardry alone will turn the tide. To meet this tremendous responsibility, we ask for every possible consideration in the allocation of materials for vitally essential repairs, maintenance and new equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DAILY THE LOAD INCREASES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . To date, the railroads haves met 100% the staggering demands born of this global war. Many have helped make that record possible – the War Department, the Office of Defense Transportation, civilian shippers and travelers everywhere. In the first six month of 1942 with 25% fewer locomotives, the Santa Fe moved 94% more freight ton-miles and 27% more military and civilian passenger miles than in the first six months of 1918 in World War I. Daily the load increases. No man knows what the peak will be. We do know there is a limit to the performance that can be squeezed out of existing equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SANTA FE SYSTEM LINES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SERVING THE SOUTHWEST FOR 70 YEARS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Buy U. S. War Bonds – They Identify You” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ********************************************************************************** Number 5 of 9 Like Father in 1917 ~ Like Son, in 1942 ~ . . . . . Americans feel at home in Britain. . . . . Americans have always felt at home in Britain . . . in peace time . . . or in war. Whether they have come over, equipped with guide books, golf clubs and cameras for a quiet sojourn among Britain’s peaceful hedgerows, historic landmarks, and the ancestral beginnings of American ideals, laws and traditions or whether they have come, as in 1942 with steel helmets, bayonets, tanks and bombers in defenses of these very ideals, by which both nations are so closely bound together in common heritage, Americans feel that they are truly among friends – in Britain. Year after year, in happier times, British Railways have brought American travelers along the magic trail that leads into the heart of Britain – the glorious, colourful panorama of History, Literature, Tradition and Ideals. Until Victory comes, as it must and will, British Railways continue to maintain their contact with their American Friends, through their General Traffic Manager, C. M. Turner, 9 Rockerfeller Plaza, New York, N. Y. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRITISH RAILWAYS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ************************************************************************************** Number 6 of 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A BOY ON A HILL-TOP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . He used to wave at me from that hill . . . we lived just beyond it. He knew the exact time I’d be by . . . and I’d wave to him from the cab. And on my time off, I’d go to the hill with him, and we’d sit together, my son and I, and wait for the trains to come along. We’d hear their whistle calling across the distance . . . then see the long plume of smoke come into view, racing like the wind . . . and as they thundered by, we’d both wave to the engineer. Maybe there’s something in heredity – he seemed to have the railroad in his blood. When he finished school . . . well I rolled into the yards one day, and there he was – long longer my little boy, but a man. A railroad man! He might someday have taken over my run. But, last December 7th, he was twenty-one . . . I don’t know where he is now. He got is two weeks leave before he left. But whenever I pass that hill, I seem to see him, as he used to be, before he became a man and had to shoulder the responsibility of being a man. I know he wants to come back to the railroad . . . and I’m going to see that he does come back! These Japs and *** who started all this – when they creep up on him and all his fellows in arms – even if they come with a thousand tanks and mobile guns and all the dive-bombers they can find in hell – he and his buddies will meet them with fifty thousand tanks and a hundred thousand planes and two hundred thousand guns. My job, now, is to get that equipment to the ships that’ll take it to him and to all the other American boys like him, no matter where they are. And it can rain and snow and sleet and it can blow, and nothing will stop me. I’ll get the stuff through to him. I am getting it through to him. You only have to lie still in the night and listen to the rumble of the trains – the trains everywhere – to know that I’m speaking the truth. It’s my son, and it’s my country, whose lives are at stake, and I can’t fail and I won’t. . . . . . . . . . . Published as a tribute to the railroad workers of America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NEW YORK CENTRAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Invest in Victory . . . . . Buy United States War Bonds and Stamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *********************************************************************************** Number 7 of 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HE WHO ”steps up” ALSO SERVES . . . . . . . . . . UNION PACIFIC is doing its share to meet the nation’s vital need for dependable transportation. It’s a job we’re proud to do. Over the “the strategic middle route” connecting East with West, our gigantic locomotives are hauling not only war materials but also thousands of Uncle Sam’s men in uniform. Thus, it is apparent that travelers may not always find it possible to obtain their preferred accommodations. Perhaps only coach seats or upper berths will be available. To Union Pacific patrons, who we have had the pleasure of serving and will continue to serve to the best of our ability, we would like to say, “he who steps up also serves” and express our thanks for your cooperation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Progresssive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Strategic Middle Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “Buy U. S. War Bonds – They Identify You” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ********************************************************************************** Number 8 of 9 ON THEIR WAY Shades are drawn down. Lights dim low. The landscape is blotted out . . . there’s just the hum of the speeding train. These boys know what it means – the troop train is approaching the troop ships. Some draw a deep breath. A soldier fumbles for a letter. Another wonders if he can make a last telephone call. Another draws out a crumpled photograph. No, travelers don’t see this – but the trainmen of the Pennsylvania Railroad do, daily. And more so than ever now. As the swelling tide of American youth – fine and fit streams overseas . . . Of course, it takes a lot of equipment for these troop movements – but with what remains we are doing our best to serve all essential travelers . . . efficiently, courteously. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BUY UNITED STATES WAR BONDS AND STAMPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pennsylvania Railroad ********************************************************************************* Number 9 of 9 A NEW DAY DAWNS IN RAILROADING War traffic has more than doubled the volume of freight hauled by the Western Pacific Railroad from Salt Lake City to San Francisco. Wherever the going it toughest n this rugged route, General Motors Diesel freight locomotives have kept this vast stream of vital munitions moving steadily. War building is being rushed ahead with reliable General Motors Diesel power. In the days to come this dependable, economical power will be ready to do the hard jobs of peace. Throughout history, wars have set up new milestones of transportation progress. And with this war, it is the General Motors Diesel Locomotive that is ushering in the new era. What advances the future will bring are already apparent in the present performance of these locomotives and the way they are helping to meet the abnormal demands upon the railroads today. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KEEP AMERICA STRONG * BUY MORE BONDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LOCOMOTIVES . . ……………………ELECTRO-MOTIVE DIVISION, La Grange, Ill. ENGINES . . 150 to 2000 H.P. …….. CLEVELAND DIESEL ENGINE DIVISION, Cleveland, Ohio ENGINES . . . 15 to 250 H.P. ……… DETROIT DIESEL ENGINE DIVISION, Detroit, Mich. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GENERAL MOTORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DIESEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . POWER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . That’s it! It has been my pleasure to provide these 9 WWII Posts to all of you. [tup] Tom [4:-)] [oX)]
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