. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . t move westward, bearing eastern goods away, To come back with hogs and cattle, bales of sweet Kentucky hay,Brakemen walk along the roof-tops, lingering for a moments chat;There an engineer, while smoking, long and eloquently spat. Wandering life and care-free rovers, seasoned in adventure bold,In the old caboose at night time many a thrilling tale is told, But on duty in the winter, when theres hail and iceand snow, And the rails and roofs are ice-cased, and you slip eachstep you go, Or the melting, boiling summer, when the blisters lump the paint,And
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . t move westward, bearing eastern goods away, To come back with hogs and cattle, bales of sweet Kentucky hay,Brakemen walk along the roof-tops, lingering for a moments chat;There an engineer, while smoking, long and eloquently spat. Wandering life and care-free rovers, seasoned in adventure bold,In the old caboose at night time many a thrilling tale is told, But on duty in the winter, when theres hail and iceand snow, And the rails and roofs are ice-cased, and you slip eachstep you go, Or the melting, boiling summer, when the blisters lump the paint,And the fierce sun strikes directly, and you feel youre like to faint, Thats the time you curse the life out, striking for arise in pay, Say a dog has better living, but you cant quite get away,For the rugged freedom holds you, spite of freezing cold and sweat,And the grating, grinding thunder of the freights you cant forget, L. and N., D. L. & W., Erie, Reading, P. R. R.,Riding on your sliding roof-tops, thats where joy andfreedom are!. Cut Courtesy Railroad M«» s Magaztnt Freight Loss and Damage Claims—TheirCauses and Possible Cure An Address by C. C. Glessner, Auditor of Freight Claims,at the Deer Park Staff Conference, June 30, 1917 SVERY railroad man knows thatoperating methods have beenrevolutionized in the last fiftyyears. The casual reader smileswhen his eye meets some of the. instruc-tions to employes which railway mana-gers deemed necessary a half centuryago. One operating rule in the earlydays of railway transportation requiredthat all trains be brought to a stand-still at crossings, and that before pro-ceeding the trainmen should see thatall tracks were cleared. While rules ofthis type were born of the spirit ofSafety First/ it did not take manyyears of operation to show railwayexecutives that such methods must bepassed into the scrap heap and thatspeed in operation as well as safety wasa necessity if railways were to reallyserve their purpose. The loss and damage
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