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...pile of coal-and no fireman. The diesels came onto U.S. railway tracks very gradually, and as late as 1937 fewer than 1% of the nation's locomotives were diesels. In that year the Brotherhood of Firemen foresightedly negotiated a contract with major railroads calling for two-man train crews. Fire or no fire, there was to be a fireman aboard...
That was the year the Brotherhood was founded. An Erie Railroad fireman was killed in a train wreck, and a railroading friend named Joshua Leach set about taking up a collection for the widow and the children. Leach was so distressed about the 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...
...union train is coming fast...
Refugees from behind the Iron Curtain have come into West Berlin over rooftops and underground, by foot, auto, train, bus, boat and armored car. Last week West Berlin welcomed the first to arrive by plane-Polish Air Force Major Richard Obacz, 34, his German-born wife Mary, 27, and their two small sons...
Died. Brigadier General Frank Purdy Lahm, 85, one of the U.S. Army's earliest birdmen, a West Pointer who took lessons from Wilbur Wright and in 1909 soloed the Army's first plane, went on to train many top airmen as first commander of the Air Corps' pioneer flying school at Randolph Field, Texas-over which his ashes will be scattered from a plane; of a stroke; in Sandusky, Ohio...