July-August, 1969 - Milwaukee Road Archive

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MARIE HaTTON
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HEADS AAR L&D SECTION riers and reveal the reasons why
John E. Roumillat has been appointed
director of the freight loss
and damage prevention section of
the Association of American Rail­
roads, to succeed Carl A. Naffziger,
people travel between the cities of
Washington, Philadelphia, New
York, Boston, Hartford, Springfield,
Providence, Baltimore, Trenton,
New Haven and Wilmington.
who has retired after 35 years of
railroad service. Roumillat began TRAIN ON THE RIVER KWAI
his railroad career with American Increasingly popular tourist attrac­
Railway Express (now REA) and tion abroad is Thailand's Makarmjoined
the AAR in 1942, serving as tao, made famous by the movie.
a packaging engineer and since "The Bridge on the River Kwai." A
1964 as a specialist in the section luxurious air-conditioned hotel ovhe
now heads. erlooking the river has been opened,
and as an added attraction
the State Railways of Thailand has
DOT TRAVEL SURVEY
A $350,000 contract to help determine
transportation needs in the
Northeast Corridor in coming years
has been awarded by the Department
of Transportation to Alan M.
put on display the actual locomotives
and freight cars used in the
construction of the bridge.
RAILROADS AND SCOUTING
Edit01' Voorhees and Associates of Mc- As a means of acquainting boys of
Scouting age with the railroad in­
PUBLIC RELATIONS
DEPARTMENT
dustry, the Association of American
Railroads has developed a special
kit for use in the Scouting relation­
Union Station-Chicago
ship. The kit, titled "Railroads and
Scouting," is adaptable for Cub
Scout, Boy Scout and Explorer programs.
Copies are available at no
charge from the AAR, American
Railroads Building, Washington,
D. C. 20036.
contents
The Veterans Meet in Milwaukee 4
Scholarship Committee Announces
Winners for 19&9 8
Automobile Mdrshaling Yard at
Kent, Wash., Nears Completion 9
L. V. Anderson Promoted to Brigadier
General in U.S. Army Reserve 10
Appointments 10
Ford Ships Mid-America Special
Models for Its Mid-America
Customers 11
Puget Sound Barge Service Sets
Sixty-Year Navigation Record.. 12
The Wisconsin Dells-A Tourist
Attraction for 100 Years 14
"Do JOlt gl1i e trading .rtamps?"
Lean, Va. In an origin-destination
survey, a sample of travelers by
air, bus and automobile will be
asked to provide information on
the purpose of their trips, the cost,
length of travel time, personal income
and other travel-related characteristics.
Rail travelers will be
surveyed by Opinion Research Corporation,
Princeton, N. J., under an
existing $60,000 contract. The surveys
will produce estimates of the
annual use of the four types of car-
PR MAN IN NEW YORK
c. K. (Mike) Carmichael has been
named director of public relations­
New York for the Association of
American Railroads, thereby giving
the railroad industry its first public
relations representative in New
York on a staff basis. His office is
at Two Penn Plaza. Carmichael,
formerly a senior vice president at
Geyer-Oswald, has a background
of more than 20 years in railroad
advertising work.
COG RAILROAD CENTENNIAL
The Mount Washington Railway,
which opened on July 3, 1869 and
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About People of the Railroad 1&
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