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...evidently aided a small fire which had been started in the mattress, probably by a stray cigarette. Miss Schumann and her roommate, Margaret Pfeffer, alerted their proctor who then called the Cambridge fire department. The firemen quickly extinguished the blaze...
Fireman Gilbert can intone plenty of arguments against removing firemen from diesel locomotives-he has had a lot of practice at that. "Practical railroaders," he says, "rate the locomotive fireman as the most valuable safety factor available to the industry. His presence has meant the difference between disaster and saving lives and property on many occasions...
...Gilbert has a farther-reaching argument in favor of continuing his fight to keep the firemen on the diesels: "We can never forget that we are representing human beings, and that management is representing money. There is a big difference. You can always mint more money. But you can't mint new lives...
...their struggle to fend off work-rule changes, the five railroad operating unions have formed a united front, but they have nonetheless fully retained their separate identities. Of the five, the Firemen's Brotherhood is most centrally involved. The other four...
...better. Switchmen are essentially brakemen who work in railyards rather than on the road, taking over from road crews as the trains pull into the yards. In recent decades, automatic switching controls have taken over much of the switchmen's former work, so that, like firemen and brakemen, they are afflicted with obsolescence...