Rock Island Lines appoints Hillis as operating chief
J. D. Farrington takes full charge as Rock Island Lines CEO and names W. H. Hillis as operating officer to head the operating organization. Hillis, with Rock Island since 1936 and assistant chief since 1939, began railroading thirty seven years ago with Burlington. A brief note on railroad history and a retirement interview service for Monday is included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. D. Farrington
Rock Island
W. H. Hillis
Hillis
Burlington Railroad
Fort Worth
Denver City
Burlington
Santa Fe News and Personnel Highlights From Amarillo
Santa Fe notices cover Scoles trip from Yukon Oklahoma to Lubbock to visit parents, Landsberry new assistant file clerk, Mock receives governor letter, Boys State program notes, and parallel 1942 Pacific fleet figures. Also Admiral Nimitz weekly summary, promotion news for Lt Britain, and safety meeting recap in Amarillo with various staff movements and Army enlistments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Scoles
Amarillo
Yukon
Okla
Lubbock
Bob
Santa Fe Signal Department
Rock Island
Ronald Edward Mock
Ray C. Mock
Coke Stevenson
Stevenson
Ronald
Austin
Lone Star
American Legion
Mack
Rotary, Lions and
Texas
Early rail progress and the birth of express service
The text recalls Baltimore’s rail entry with trains named George Washington John Adams Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and notes early Baltimore Washington runs then 40 miles in about two hours. It explains William F Harnden as the pioneer express messenger who launched regular service between New York and Boston in 1839, expanding to Philadelphia and beyond, establishing Harnden & Company as an international firm. It also begins to note when the Great Lakes and Atlantic Seaboard first linked by rail with the completion of the New York & Erie Railroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Dunkirk
New York
Lake Erie
Atlantic
Great Lakes
Millard Fillmore
Daniel Webster
Stephan A. Douglas
New York City
New York & Erie
Baltimore
George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
Washington
America
William F. Harnden
Boston & Worcester Railroad
New York Central
Boston
Boston & Providence Railroad
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Providence
Harnden
Philadelphia
Harnden & Company
England
France
Atlantic Seaboard
New York & Erie Railroad
The
Erie
New
Also Mentioned on This Page
W. M. Ferguson
Railroad Retirement Board
Trainmasters
Santa FE
L. C. Lawrence
Navy
Edwin Landsberry
Bob Cook
Landsberry
Merrill Lynch-Pierce-Fenner & Beane
Alfred Nelson
New Mexico
Pacific
Chester W. Nimitz
United States Pacific Fleet
David W. Britain, Jr
David W. Britain
mid-Pacific
Britain
W. C. Hankison
Trinidad
Harry L. Phillips
Patterson
Dallas
Cc. E. Pyre
Pantex Ordnance
East
8. T. Harmon
California
Bailey Cowart
CORP
New York Guard
Air Corps
Bailey
Plains Division
Kay Kyser
Chicago
Los
L. T. Leary
W. W. Davis
F. A. Donnell
Waynoka
General Office
J. B. Brisco
C. Flagler
Galvenston
OUK
Enally
Association of American Railroads
City
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Ot Nagere Falls
Nabisco
National Pitt
HILL
Skinner's
Clorox
Colo
Salt Squares
Haddock
del Haven
Harris
Oxydol
Hereford
Meadow Lake
Green Bell Peppers
Sunkist
Bologna
Fryers
N. Fillmore
U. S
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