THEWICHITA CHAPTBR

NATIONAL RAILWAYF{ISTORICAL SOCIETY

ING IN. Thls affalr 1sStock Yards }toteL.

SEPf M.,tsER

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DINlffiR ARE SI.,OIV COM-to be held on Saturday, Sepyember Zb at the

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* RESER.VAIIONS FOR ?HE 1965 AIVNUAL $ISETTNG AND

The usual conditlons 3|* ln. effecto you order from the nenu to;ult youn tastee"and- then you settle trri:_n:.r} ln your own fashlon.lhe hour of meetlng 1s set for 6:0O * 6;50 pM.rf you plan !i go please glve ur yorr* reservatlons at the nextneetlng cu" phone it in lo ll: i"9r9t""i, t"- ci*"i"o at MU6-6g55, trfe'rould' ll]ie to see -a-

good turn out ror tirrs activlty and shoulil havern ld'ea of the numbei of reserva,tlons to make by rtbufrng nlght.8o glve lt some serious thoughi"*rri r"t ue"tnow-as soon as possrble.

**,I+ .A,I{l']UAL I,{EET]NG AI\TD DTNi]3R * SATURDAY $rENINs, BEPTEI\IIBER 25,AT TliE STOCK YARDS HOTEL. TIl,,[t: 6:OO - 6iEO'pMP}iOi']E YOI]R RSSERVATIO}IS TO TT{A SECN.E-'TARY, LCS CLffiTCO, ATItrU6-6555. LET US KNo:,? AS gooi{ A$ pos$iBLE.

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{tr+ TitE UNKNOWN IMI,,1IGHANT.A N:ght On The Yegua. d Contlnued.. q part Z. An Accid.ent on

lhe Bridge.I started" oven the deck to ascertaln what had hap"rened., but be-tween the gusty gale and sllppery d"eek mad.e etow pr.og:o***" eapecra_alyas I was forced at tlmes to chng to the runnrng Loaid to r.i.i-i"6*

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It' THE ifEXT REGi'rtAB IuIEETII'IG of The w1c!]ta Ohapter, N.R.!I.S. w11lbe held Frldav evening, tgo!-Tro""'^iz)' r.965: iiri; ieetrng w111 behe1d, as usuaI, in Rodrir 2O?- Unlon Stailon. lt[eetlng tlme ls set f or3;33t3ff J*H"iqi,f8"$-belng opened ror pre-meetlngltherrn!

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The hlsh-Llght of the- evenlngs, program w111 be the showlne of "/Smrn movles 6y or] R.R. couratru*. "itir" were taken on the Docoforrsrecent vls1t to Europe. Because of the general appeal and lnterestof the Docborrs mov16s we belleve-"n-ii"iatation-to irr* ladles 1n i.sSil3T1";3"Y: i$:j; 3*1"*?3:;;-;; ii'"*"r''pten to ttrrs meetlng to-see

rnvlte an lnterested, frlend; bring youl wlfel your best 911L and;3ff :;:"t;":[];.*o"ths meetlng io*-"n-e,'enrng Ji' eliertar*"f;f-you

SHE DIgPATCIIF.R ?age 2, $eptenber 1965*

belng bLown from the deck lnto the ewlrllng $egua"We bd. an lnmlgrant outflt a$' about the center of the traln, corl-

talnlng household effects, agrlcultural lnpleroents, horses and otherfarming stock" the owner lras ln i;he car, ano he yell-ed yp to rne to askwhat the trouble Tras and. I had to te1l hlm I didntt know. He remarked.that lt was a flne pla.ce we had pleked. out to stop, but 1f he could, beof any asslstance to let hln knors"

Nature was surel,y ln a viftd.lctlve mood. Il{y l"lght went out shortlyafter X etartecl and to a traln"nan thatrs rather a lonesome febllng, buteventual.ly I reached. the head car and. looklng d.own lnto the cab reaL-lzed. ln an instant what had occurred., Trepldailon clutched. me, eo notcarlng to waste tlme golng d0wn the si.de ladder to cllmb the rean ofthe tank, ln the 1u11 that came I ran back to the rear end of the boxcar ln order to get up speed. to nake a flylng Jump from the other end.and on to the coal of the tank, I had aLready seen by the gLare of theopen flre-box door l{cCormlck holdlng h1s left eye ln h1s h;nd, whlchhad. been completely gorlged out, wh1Le he was contlnulng h1s ei'forts tod.raw buckets of water from the tanic to put out the flrE on the cloth-lng of the flrenan and. brakeman, who were both slttt ng on the flrensft ss ea.t. !

- Not a word" was spokenl ln fact, nelther the flrenan nor the bra"ken?n ever spoke to rne agaln, although they were both good. frlend.s of,mlne. Explanatlons were unnecess&ry. InstantaneousLy-the sltuatlon waslndel-lby lmpressed. on rny rnlnd. - lt renalns today - &Dd reallfl$ thatthe water ln the tanh wae so low that lt was ted.lous to f11,1 t6e buck*e!, I, gnabbed the bnakeman, Jersey Young, arouncl the walst - he welgh-e-d onl-y 1-5O pounds anil was twenty*f ive pound.s llghter than Smlthr tEeflrenan - and got d.own off the tank vrlth hlrs under ny arm and. roiledhlm ln a siream of wa$er ln a barrow plt to extlngulsh the flre on hlsc]-othlng. I agaln put my arn around hls walst ancl-crawled up to thetank; he, of course, poor feL1ow, belng unable to ald me th! least blt*i then set hln back on the flremanl s seat. Thls llngers ln ny memoryllke a d.rea;r, and ltl1 never know wher.e the superhufran strenlth camef,rom that mad,e lt posslbLe for me to handle an lnanlmate from of d.eadvelght under-such trylng clrcunstanses. i{oweven, raany slmiLar lnstanqeslave occutrred.. In]-y then dld I lnqr_rlre of l,{c0oufolck how badly he wasnJured^, and he shovred. me some scars and sl"lg.hC U,.,rrts on hls cheet and','fils that were bad., but fortunat€l-y i1u r"* not fatally lngrured." Sub-equent hap >enings must be he1d. 1n a?:eyance v.'hlle we butLlne the cause;f the accld.ent.

On the prevLous afternoon the locaL crew had. set a car of l-umber)n the spur sld&ng at quarry whlch had. recently been equlpped wlth onerf the new spllt. swltches, then coming lnto general use. Unfortunately,'rhlle the crew that set thls car out had put-a chuck und,er the wheelsrnd. also left the brakes set, when the wlndstorm came up lt undoubted,.ly tira.w of such terrlftc force as to start the body of the car rocklnglhlch eventually dlslodged the dog of the brake. Then the chuck undei;he wheel was pushed. aslde and the car started novlng out on the maln'-lne through the spLlt svrltch wlthout deral11ng; theil on dornn the hlll-rnd on to the brldge, and eventually settled at-the lowest polnt. Thls,:f course, was before d.erallers cane lnto general tlser

When cur englne struck thls flat car It was lylth sufflclent forceto bneak ln the front end of the snoke box, blocklng the flues. f51si:aturally crea.ted. an enormous compresslon whlch lnsiantln blew opbn1,he flre-box door. The door swung to UlcCorralckts side and in dotirg sothe bralreman and the flrenan on the opooolte s{de got the ful"l ef}scteof the 6Last of the flames- In add.ltlon, pleces of-lunber were d.rlventhrough the front cab wlndows, scarrlng and. lnJurrng all three.

What brought us to such an easy stop was the f-aat that the pdny

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trucks of the englne werecar we had struck"

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both d.eralled and. aLso the truck of the fLat

. Imaglne rny pred.!_e,anent, IvicCo:*rlsk had. crawletl u-p on h1s seat and.the heat frcm"bhe fjre bcrjr,rvn,s ra!]t{l;r iir.yi.rg c,ui; thl cfothing-;;iDsmlth and Ycungr. btit i c'e;.1--tred" I;l.is-,t ihese tilo nren espcclally-werepad_]y inJ ured., -they a-Lsir !:a.ri.npi becn stru.ck by a couple of pleces oflunber. Both nrere 1r, a stuoor j.nd mereiy si1:'';rrg ti,e*e gazlng lntospace. I bound un luicCo:::rlokrs eye rrrrj.th b lta:::.ci..keiefrlef to red.uce thestraln, a-nc1 he. sbcn ga.u'e-e-ric'.enie_of passing.lntcr a str.rpor, belng morebadly lnJr:red tiran we hae 1me.g1ned., Th; sta;iina he dlsplayed.no d.oubtwa$ caused because he had apoieclated that the sh.ock aire i4urles toSmlth and Young yrere F:.avor. t.han hls owno So wlth that lnhereni; loyal*ty whloh ls an-at;tribute of rallroad men, possibly more so when oper*atlon of tralns wan an extra hazardous-oscupatlon, rr"-irroigh|"lnij, orlelplng. to relleve them, ,ani traving-done everythlng he could the re-flex actlon of stress aira strain irE rraa-u"""-lnau"-"rfected, hln andaccounted for hls lnsenlbll1ty.NECESSITY FORFA$T ffiINKTNG. J Tlme w?g flying, wlth the reallzatlon that everymlnute these men lacJeed mecliaal- a"tibntion mlght ae""e*se thelr chances

9,f recovery-.Thls wg.s my one predomlnattng anxlety, Til;gh[J-].r*rir"athrough mv mlnd wlth thb raplhity or erqsrs. f knbw th;tT;-*ii*iro*bab11lty there wasntt an avlilable traln ueilreen-iempre and, summervllleand' even 1f there had been. ?n engl-ne to pu1l the carb off the nriag"lt would, have, been lmposslble to"have moired these men ny any guccorfrom the north becausb the rear part of ihe tank w"J on tiiJb;id;;,naklng i-t_fuoposslble to carry thbn around 1t.Immadiately I declded _tha! the only lirrng to do was to walk up toQ,uaffy ln the !op" that Boylont e traln made tfiere agarnst the tlneglven. t!*r, and 1f not there r would have to d.ontlnile on to Gsy H111to obtain the a.sslsta-nce ol a section $ang to take me even farther Lfnecessary to get ll"rT.engine and. cabo6se-to take the tnJured io-eren-3am for mecllcal attentlonf Tllls, of necesslty,-*"s-ih" only cour*e toioIlow, but dlctates of hunanlti, couplerl ,:vrth trre rrigh *"[a*"a'i-fraafor a1r three men, restrained rnb'momeirtu.rlry from p"lTrng Eti; "ou"seinto aetion becaeue how could I Iee.ve them hfone, bspecra11y 1n vlewrf l\{c0ormlckr s condltlonn It was then I thogght of the lmmlgrant and.;o1d &iccormick what I wai golng to oo, but rrE aranr i--say a word. tn:eply.

The huml""l had grov;n even !'rorse as I worked my way back over;he deek to the--lmmlgrintrs car. and., yelung i"",iiy,"nrrbly ouirineo;he sltuatlon. Unforiunatley, there'wls no End ui1nd.6w rn hli box car,'ro the quandary wae hovr to g6t. frir" out of tha.t "ar "tta up on the cLeck,r'rld. euen though he tol-d he .fi.e had a long lerrgth or

"op" *u decldecl J.twas not feaslble tg attempt to pull hld up ai fre sald tre ,'"eieh6d -about 19O.pounis, We then arnangeit for hliu to tn.ke-a long pfEce ofrope and tle the center of lt aiound h1s wa.lst, feavfng 5ni end loose?!q."!t"chlng the other tossgne strong suppcrt-whlle I cane down theradcler and crawled und.erneath the car-to the slde d.oor, rt **""iymust have been rather an awesome, terrlgylng prospJet for that lmmi-grant, seelng a raglng, wwirlJ.ng-toryeni-or"water"rushlng o;it * i*,feet under hlm. But 1G lt weren-he never menti.oned. lt nor. hesltateda moment ln follol'tllg fy lnstruetlons. \rVhen I rerofrea the open-ooor f'racl hln throw out the Loose end of the rope lvhlch I bound aror.md mywaist and. then lnstructed h1m to sllde out of the car on hls stomachrAfter consld,erable troubLe, wlth ay asslstrncer_ ig-succeaed ln getttngout and underneath the ear. 'lVe then eut the en6" oi ihe rope thaf, hehad fastened. to the lnslde of the crr. iVilnd fo"r-th; tles of thlstreetle $ere narrower that the outer wldth of- th! box car, Idore nextmonth.

rHE DIr,P.A,I(I:iM. Pi,gtr. 4 Siepfeiubcr 196b.r+ FrrtEEN [ol\m]{s - li1 Tiltr PRrcE eF T$ELVE" - sf fectt ve the flrst of,september, 1?6f-"^!u11 y,ears dues Lrt tire arcJrrnt-oi-g6.no (;gt"so forNational, and $5"oo rc,r'lJcaij ior-regii-Lar n"nber,'shlp a,nd $1.oo forfa"nilly menhrer"shlp tr-emales-Ji;ri-*:.:-i'o* acci;pteri from new membersfor the balance of i965

"nq tiil'rii-fi yenr or lgoa - lb nonths member-shlp for the prlce of orre yeo.r.r, ducsosuoh ner,v menbers wiil- r'ecelve -ttie

}Iational Br.r-lletln as lssuedafter enror-lement d.ate vr.i-{h *.r.i -,ro:-"i"ior,*"

crf-membershlp,The 1965 men'bershlp carcl wt]tt ne-r*sued-at;[; tl,"ne of enro]-tmentand a 1966 cara l,vj-ll be forwarded" orr-or a.bout-ttr"-i"glnnrng of thenew yearrThe above should' furnlsh xour Ttllehlta. chapter nembers, wlth someammunA.tlon to use 1'gertlng *L*J'oi your hotA-;;is to slgn up.

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It{& VACAItrO},i 1965. A story by Member Jeryy },.{oore ofTuisa, 0klahoqa. A^61iS rn11e ofVacatlon and. fraln Chaglngo..,...,My trriother, Dqd. and r left Tursa*atout +i-rio_uil-;,rry 1?th rn mynew Falrrane,-$tatlon- wagon' r drove--to ir,tooreland, oklafioma before rsav/ any ralhoail actlon" rt wa! a pasrunger trali on the Fanta Fe.The next rariraoa-actlon I r"i-*"r,a passenger traln on the Rockrsland' at Ggynond', Oklahoma" whlch : [naeritii""?r."t the Rock rsland1s trying to tnke ofi. r was very r-ucky to -gei--t*ol""y

good photosof lt bef'ore lt pulled out, v ----nr followed the santa Fe 11ne north fron Bolse ctty to sprlngfteld,,colorad'o" r dld not see any tralns on it. Non a1d-r see ar\y on the I{oOac at Eeds. Celorado, At kft CarJg"r- Coio"*eo*ri 6"g"n to foltow theu.p- l'rear Deer-Tr;ii;'coioraa"^_*e-b;egr, to see iiooa d,a"nage on boththe h1g'h'1ay and the i"allroad" Ahout iO--mffes of naiiroaA ana the wholetown of ''een Tr"a.il had been,asfrea_awar" $ome Uufiaings were left, butall the bui-'l.o:tnge I. gaur had bee" frooir-ua.-i[; iJi:ti:iage on the inter_lit" $iu;1''1p', whlch ha.ci never u-e_en-opinea to trafiic, was washed,away' -'raffi'c.$.'-as ruovlng on the U.P.r*but muoh ro"x-*u*a1ng to bed,one to get it back to normal,,we arylved, ln Denver auout-$l5o prn, },Isg, too ].ate and. too tlred'.;o take any. plcturesr The next d,aJ. as'1r,;e qent north to Cheyenne I wae-l'rtchy enoush to get plcture$ a.nd movles of both-uu"trorrs of the U.p.riClty c:f Salnt Ljr-r1s*.

--r dld not- stcp ln chelrenne beeause r had covered that the year be*fore a"nd alos becasue we had a_ lJng*way to. go. N;tLwest from cheye_nne vte began to follor,v the Burlrngf,on io 9!ie*"1;;"- uia nJugi".-tJ--cas-P€Fn ve follovred the Burllng$on f6r over goo-rniles rna never saff atraln on tt, 10e went on to Sherldan ana narroh;;t;;,

*iryomlng. r took aplcture of 1;he o1d type tvro stony aepoc. we cao.ped'nel" tii;-Brsh;;ni.'lountaln at Dpyton, T{yomlng,

Tlie next dnf w€ toured Custer Battlefleld. and followed. the Bur^l_ington llne lnto, Bllllngs, -lvfontana. Fnora Blltlng* ,e went north tofr'oundup, ivleilt'.At.Founayn-r found irre-t,tt:.waure""ro"a rJ.epot. Thls vrouLd,!v my only look at the Rilwaukee Rallroad the rest of tire i"ip. -r"o*Roundup we d:'ove on to Great Fal1s wfre"e *" -a""io*a-io

get a Iuiotelroom for the night.. I lad pienty of tlne t-o photograph the Gneat Ngrthern ya.rd.o and.shops. r saw many sD-g.rsr_GP-bts aia i'-zts. also *i[it Interletlngequlpnent to photograpl" I aLso found the l,[llwaukee road depot rivlthlts lmpresslve tovrer. The depot now houses a farm supply store and lsapparently no longer used. for: a ilepot.rne next nornlng we Left Great Fa1ls and, head.ed, for GLa.clerNatlonal Park. 0n the way there I toof pletu::es of several sncal] depota

f}S DISSATCHES Pag* 5" $eptember 196b.on the Grea't l{orthern' l,fe spent t.ire next.!*o days seetng Glacler NatlonaL Park. From west Glacler ve fcLLorred._ t!, Kallspell !1v1slon of tb.eGreat N6rthern" From wu*t sr.acier-i.Jri.a Beiton by s.irr.) to EastGlacier tlie highway a-nd the

"rri"or&-i"* close together. severaltunnels and ma,iy snowsheds are on trrrs-iri;""";"#F;; and bntdges thatwould. challenge any modeler to bulld are fowrd. on trr" Blg G.r had checked. the traln boand, "t-gutton and noted the vrresternstar was due 1n about 5o mlnlrtes. "r-hr{

hopeo-io "iicr, 1t in a cholcespot' But lt vras rlnnlng A l-lttL; arre"a;;'-ih""irio"t"a tlioe and wepaosed' 1t ln a spot wheie a grove.or treii;;;;;ilirn *, and rhe ral1road.. I later fot a pleture df a G;N. frelght near the summlt ofL{arias Paesu

i{re d'rove north to thg canaiilan Border and at card.ston, Alberta. rgot mv flrst l,ook at the caniaian-i"riirc" lTe roiro#ea rt tnto ga.lgarxrbut lt was only a braneh ll-ne ild r_.;; no tralns, I[e stayed. ln ce1garylhll nlght* fhe next dgJ we wnet west rrom d;G;;y to Banff where rtook a plcture of the tlrge oepot ana iouno many pulLrnans of dlfferwrtu's' ra'llroads parked on ittu sidi"f-irt6*". some r "r*enel Rock rsland.I lllnols Central, Santa fe, -NJwJoit -C*""t_nal, Union-paclfi!, Southern,and many others- lfe then wint on io l,ate Louise wrrere the cansd.ian pac-tflc oFerrtes- o 1"a3ge hoter ana- o{rrer'?iafrrfies,----'West of Lake Loul$e ln-K1ck1*g-lio"u" C"rryin-f" found. the C.p.splral tunnels. r was Yery lucky lii

"i"r"e tr tine-tb get a shot of apasseSger_tra1n-golng lnto the tunnei,The frans-Canadd Hlghway, canJaa-No. 1, foLlows the Canad.ian pac-lflc from Banff to vaneoier"-{'he6;ie-'1ange slgns and plenty of park-lng space to see !he. splral tunnels.- irr* large snow capped, mountalnstower over the c-P' tni.cks" ri t;;-rr"a-'*oo* on a modeL rail.roail (aoqPug?) to tly and.moclel p*rt oflthe C.p,, a mountaln would tower abovethe tra.ln about elght feit.ffe went lfrrou$ir Roitgers Pass to ReveLstoke where we stayed. thenlght. I had tirag to get-many plctures oi-c;i;-"fiil;, and. equtpmenr.Here the r':ilrned' men-telL-mlny irair-ralslng storles of snowsLtrdes ana.flood's 1n F"oi.;ers Pasg. no{glrl P;; iJ nmda ror llla:or A.B. Rod,gerswho dlscoverea- ilre paes and-bu11t--irre-rs"rtroaa iirrouelt rt ln Lggo toLs8s' Reverstolce ls named lgl !1t". -"errr[-;6i"Je;iiE

"o*pany who helptd the Canadlan Faciflc butld thetn i1;;.Frorn Revelstolce we went to Kamloope folLowlng the Canad.lan paclfxc

'r.11 the way. Frorn Cahe Creek to Hope ti; Cop. ls on one s1d,e of theeanyon and the C,N* ln on the other e"nd the road G l:p-"il;;.-tr,rr# fnterestlng brldges, snovteheds and other structures can be seen ln theFraser Rlver CJny6rr.ite calne back lnto the Unlted $tates at Sumas, Washlngton, and.dnove on to M?"

. Veryon, W ashlngton where we d.ec16.ed to stop,, At Mt.vennon I got d'eta11_-photographe*of some of the old;; type wood.en re-frlgerator cars of Weetern F"ult Express (CW}--*;a i;"uft Growers Ex_)ress and also nen mechanlcal refrl[erator oars.

The rrext mornlng we left }{to Vlrnon to go to Mt, Ralner. Fnom the||enyay overps.ss at Auburrq llashlngton I epo[ted two- stoam englnes Xnthe I'T.q. yards near the roirndhousel We stoiped and i got ptct[res ofa' 2"6-6'2 t*n$ englne and a F-B-? of the nbrner-tmnei Co. grre butld-ers plates and, flgggeg and other thlngs are goror r sup.rose theseenglnee are awaltlng scrap.

Thls was also.my rrrlt shance to photograph the }tr6rthern paclfLc"It was.Sund'ay^mgrSfng-and_no one was around"to'bother me. I got lotsog plctures of }tr.P. illesels and equlpment. Th; ;;il-interestlng belngthe blg N"P. totary pLow,fo be soncLud.ed. next month.