. Electric railway journal . ahlia and thejustly popular potato. 1008 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIX, No. 22 Electric Railways Co-operate withWar Department Recruiting Train Operated by Chicago ElevatedRailways—Help from Railway Industry Dis-cussed by New England StreetRailway Club AFEATURE of the recent reports on war-timeactivities of electric railways has been the effortto bring about the most effective degree of co-operationbetween the industry and the government. To this end,Britton I. Budd, president of the Chicago ElevatedRailways and of the Chicago North Shore & MilwaukeeRailroad,
. Electric railway journal . ahlia and thejustly popular potato. 1008 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIX, No. 22 Electric Railways Co-operate withWar Department Recruiting Train Operated by Chicago ElevatedRailways—Help from Railway Industry Dis-cussed by New England StreetRailway Club AFEATURE of the recent reports on war-timeactivities of electric railways has been the effortto bring about the most effective degree of co-operationbetween the industry and the government. To this end,Britton I. Budd, president of the Chicago ElevatedRailways and of the Chicago North Shore & MilwaukeeRailroad, has placed in service a recruiting train, thisbeing designed to stimulate enlistments in the navalservice. The train, which has been operated at fre-quent intervals around the downtown loop in Chicago,is made up of one of the North Shore lines new diningcars, a steel passenger car which serves as a recruitingoffice, and three flat cars that are fitted out as replicasof a battleship, a submarine and a submarine ELECTRIC RAILWAYS IN WAR TIME RECRUITING TRAIN OPERATED BY CHICAGO ELEVATED RAILWAYS The latter, are manned by about thirty marines. Afull-sized torpedo is carried on the top of the submarine,and two small guns are mounted on the car that is fittedup to represent the submarine chaser. One of theseguns, a one-pounder, is fired at intervals during thetravel around the loop, and this, together with a navyband, serves to attract a great deal of attention. Recruits are picked up by the train as it passes the~L stations and while it is standing in the FifthAvenue terminal between trips. In the evening thetrain takes recruits that have signed up to the GreatLakes Naval Training Station, which is located on theChicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad. Thisprocedure will probably be continued for one or twoweeks. Meantime plans are being formulated for oper-ating the train over some of the electric railway proper-ties outside of Chicago. The three flat cars have stand
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