Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Municipal workers. 4. Railroad engineers...
High Ball. Railroader Robert R. Young's plan for merging the Pere Marquette Railway Co. with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., which has controlled the Pere Marquette since 1929, was put into effect last week. The Pere Marquette, whose main lines are in Michigan, will hereafter be known as the C. & O. The new railroad system will have 5,000 miles of main-line track, be the seventh biggest in the U.S. in operating revenues...
When George Plummer McNear Jr. was murdered three months ago, Peoria wondered if the strife over his strikebound Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad had died with him. This week it looked...
Even before Coulter had been officially put on the payroll a month ago, he began patching up things in Peoria. First he put the company back in the local Association of Commerce. Next he walked down to the East Peoria yards and talked to the craft chairmen of the railroad brotherhoods. They had ended their six-year strike only a few days before. Under Coulter, they set to with a will to get the road operating. Engineers and firemen set ties and laid rails at trackmen's wages (80? an hour) until three flood-razed bridges were repaired...
Coulter knew that he had a tough job ahead to get the T.P. & W., which had been on its way to the junk heap, back in shape. "We've got it going now," said he last week. "But I feel that the railroad is still on the spot...