. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . Making Extensive Changes in Numbers ofOur Trains Was a Complicated Problem 191G. XTENSIVE changes in the num-bers of trains were made whenthe winter time-ta])le became ef-fective on Sunday, December 10, The initiative in this progressive stepwas taken by assistant general passengeragent W. E. Lowes and assistant to gen-eral superintendent of transportationJohn A. Latchford, who are charged re-spectively with the traffic details and theoperating details of passenger train move-ment. Vice-presidents Thompson andDavis and president Willard approved thesug
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . Making Extensive Changes in Numbers ofOur Trains Was a Complicated Problem 191G. XTENSIVE changes in the num-bers of trains were made whenthe winter time-ta])le became ef-fective on Sunday, December 10, The initiative in this progressive stepwas taken by assistant general passengeragent W. E. Lowes and assistant to gen-eral superintendent of transportationJohn A. Latchford, who are charged re-spectively with the traffic details and theoperating details of passenger train move-ment. Vice-presidents Thompson andDavis and president Willard approved thesuggestion, the trainmasters in charge oftime-tables were called to Baltimore, amember of the presidents staff was as-signed to assist and in four da^s andnights the numbers of eight hundred andseventy-five train schedules had beensystematically changed. This is aboutseventy-five per cent, of our schedules,the total number of which is eleven hun-dred and twentj^-eight. Numbers one to thirty are assigned tothrough trains, present and future.
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