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...plight of the widow, left without funds, that he decided to form a firemen's life insurance association. The eleven original members called themselves Deer Park Lodge No. 1, took oaths and made up secret passwords. From that small beginning grew the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (engineman is an old-fashioned word for fireman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Beyond the Last Mile | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

...forward torpedo room of Archerfish were Commander (Medical Corps) George Bond, 43, and Chief Engineman Cyril Tuckfield, 38. Dr. Bond wore nothing but swimming trunks, face mask, a Mae West life vest and a pressure gauge on his wrist. Tuckfield carried a small additional item: a nose clip of rubber-padded steel. They clambered into Archerfish's tiny forward escape hatch and dogged down the door, cutting themselves off from the rest of the submarine. Over UQC came the word: all set. Penguin's skipper, Lieut. Commander George Enright, began a six-minute countdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Up from the Bottom | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...casually as a switching engineman shunting a string of milk cars into a siding, the Pennsylvania Railroad announced last week that it will lop 40 passenger trains off its schedules, effective July 8. Twenty-five commuter trains will be dropped from Philadelphia's heavily traveled Main Line and other suburban areas; long-distance service in & out of Pittsburgh will be reduced by seven trains, and cuts will be made on trains going into Chicago, St. Louis, Baltimore and Buffalo. The Pennsy's explanation was curt and businesslike: it is losing money on passenger traffic and thinks that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: The Troubles of the Pennsy | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

Under normal circumstances, the engineman of the Pennsylvania Railroad's flyer Red Arrow has a clear track as his train roars through Philadelphia's famed Main Line suburbs on its run from Detroit. But as it came hurtling in toward the city at 7:30 one morning last week, complications developed up ahead; the Philadelphia-bound Pittsburgh Night Express-which was running 48 minutes late on the same track-had been stopped up ahead by a block signal near the station at Bryn Mawr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Wreck of the Red Arrow | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

Eight passengers were killed and 63 injured.* At week's end there was no official explanation of the wreck. But a doctor who examined the Red Arrow's 62-year-old Engineman F. B. Yentzler after the wreck reported that he was suffering from what appeared to be a cataract, and from all initial tests, was virtually blind in his right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Wreck of the Red Arrow | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

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