. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . repairs were made. Illinois Division On November 28 track foreman J. J. Shannonand gang working just west of Lebanon noticeda defective condition on S. T. L. R. X. 3178, intrain No. 94. They immediately signaled toengineer Friend, who brought his train to astop in a short distance. The close observanceand prompt action of IVIr. Shannon and his menis appreciated. Credit notations have beenplaced on the record of foreman Shannon and ofeach of his men. This is the third time in ashort period that Mr, Shannon has discovereddefective conditions and it goes
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . repairs were made. Illinois Division On November 28 track foreman J. J. Shannonand gang working just west of Lebanon noticeda defective condition on S. T. L. R. X. 3178, intrain No. 94. They immediately signaled toengineer Friend, who brought his train to astop in a short distance. The close observanceand prompt action of IVIr. Shannon and his menis appreciated. Credit notations have beenplaced on the record of foreman Shannon and ofeach of his men. This is the third time in ashort period that Mr, Shannon has discovereddefective conditions and it goes without sayingthat such work is highly appreciated by ourmanagement. In this connection it should be stated thatF. R. Abernathy, agent at Lebanon, also noticedthe condition of this car, and gave the engineersignal to stop thetrain. Mr. Aber-nathy, being on theopposite side oftrack, did not knowthat trackmen hadcalled the engineersattention to the con-dition. Mr. Aber-nathy also has beencommended for hisclose observationand prompt J. J. SHANNON What Marine Engineering is Doing WHO says Romance is dead! The tankerRichrnond, towing a barge, with a com-bined * dead weight capacity of 15,000tons of oil, has just finished the longest tow onrecord—75,000 miles in 49G days. Round theworld it was, San Francisco to New York,seven times to London and back—fourteentimes across the war zone, dodging mines andsubmarines—thence to Shanghai by way of theCape of Good Hope, and back again to SanFrancisco. No stops were made between NewYork and Singapore—14,000 miles. Once the2-inch steel wire hawser parted, but a messengerline was quickly shot across the bow of thebarge, and in an hour the tramp was re-newed. The barge had no refrigerating machin-ery, so the tanker supplied its meat, wrappingit in canvas and floating it to the barge on astern line. After making a worlds record sherolled home through the Golden Gate, livingproof that the seafaring spirit of the days ofthe ofd Spa
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