Many Changes in the Progress of Railroads
An old wood burning engine era remembered with the arrival of trains, wood fired tenders, fire risks, and river water pumps. It recalls named engines, wooden bridges, lack of automatic brakes or couplers, and the gradual shift to modern steam and safety practices over seventy five years.
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Washington Avenue
Jessie Webb
Franklin
Newton
Norwalk
Vermilion
Cay
Uga
The
Lion
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Hancock rises to train master on New York Central
Arthur Hancock of this city rose from telegraph messenger to chief dispatcher and now serves as train master of a NY Central division. He began with Lake Shore and moved through Elyria and Cleveland offices, witnessing many road changes over the years.
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Hancock
New York Central
Arthur Hancock
Old Lake Shore
Elytia
Cleveland
Veteran railroad mail clerks reflect on service changes
Ed Notley of Gates avenue recalls thirty six years in the mail service from wooden cars to steel mail cars and parcel post growth. Dan Symons, CG W Hummer, C H Buttenbender and others are noted as early Elyria mail clerks with deaths and a Kipton wreck S: Charles Harail and Charles Bowerfine were killed in the Kipton wreck, and Oscar Ingersoll and others are named as former mail clerks now retired or deceased.
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Ed Notley
Gates Avenue
Lake Shore
New York Central
Notley
Elyria
Mall
Dan Symons
Fifth Street
Symons
CG. W. Hummer
C. H. Buttenbender
Oscar Ingersoll
Charley Harail
Kipton
Charles Bowerfine
New York Central Depot Features Careful Lamp Construction
A note on the New York Central Passenger Depot highlights careful selection in its construction work, with Lamp Construction Co furnishing land for the project and attention to materials and design shaping the depot’s development.
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New York Central
Sands used in depot contract cited by Lamp concession
Edward C. Lamp of Lamp Construction Co says his firm supplied washed and graded sands dredged from Lake Erie for the New York Central Depot project. He notes the sand's quality and distance from shore ten miles, while his Vermilion Lorain interests include the Southwest Fish Company. The article also mentions former depot sites, freight depot changes, a women’s club car plan for a New Orleans bound train, and the Southern Interstate Conference of Jewish Women meeting in Birmingham in late March.
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Edward C. Lamp
Lamp Construction Company
Ninth and Nickel Plate
Lorain
Ohio
Mr. Lamp
New York Central
Lake Erie
Lamp
Vermilion
Southwest Fish Company
Freight Agents of the Xwd Role of C S Goodwin as Agent
Freight agents seldom changed but little is known of the early railroad agents of the Xwd with C S Goodwin identified as agent from an early period.
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X.wd
C. S. Goodwin
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England
Community of Our Lady For the
Lamp Construction CO
George Manes
Mill Street
Mapes
EE Tucker
Heeee Et Ucr
M. F. Keane
East Bridge Street
Parlor
Bath
New York
New Orelans
Southern Interstate Conference of
Birlingham
New York Central Rail Road Company
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