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From the 230,000-mile operating front a stream of despairing reports flowed. In Buffalo, Railroadman Arthur W. Conley said: "We have been maintaining efficiency only by working employes 70 and 80 and 90 hours a week, but the men are not going to be able to stand it much longer." And the ICC reports on the numerous train wrecks frequently attributed the blame to inexperienced personnel...
...railroadman should be allowed to work within one or two weeks after treatment with any drug of the sulfa group, warns the Association of American Railroads. These drugs often befuddle the mind, impair judgment. Sulfa befuddlement has caused at least one train wreck...
...everybody wants to go somewhere for the Fourth of July weekend, no railroadman dares to think of the mess. And they all dread the effect on their future business, since it would underline the popular misconception that the roads cannot handle their normal passenger load on top of the gargantuan troop movements (2,500,000 troops in sleepers alone in five months) they have to handle first...
...spare time. He took them home, thinking they were Indian relics. His wife insisted that he get "that junk" out of the house. Dodd relegated them to the woodshed, but kept on talking about them. Eventually word of the find reached the ears of Curator Currelly, who asked the railroadman to bring his treasures to Toronto. After some study the archeologist became convinced that he had genuine Norse armor of the late 10th or early 11th Centuries. He sent photographs of the sword, ax and shield fragments to Norse experts in Europe, who unanimously confirmed his opinion. Then he paid...
...were stalled at one station. His growing sons cured him of that; he worked his way back to respectability as a brakeman on the Union Pacific, retired on his pension of one dollar a day. Humorless in its domestic episodes, woodenly written except for pages of authentic railroad talk, Railroadman is nevertheless a first-rate U. S. document, the best picture going of an old-time rank & file member of the powerful Railroad Brotherhoods...