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Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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s,show the enormous financial loss sus-tained by the railroads and their em-ployes and indicate how imperative itis that accident prevention work shouldbe efficiently conducted. Service and safety are the two primerequisites of the successful transporta-tion systems. Each is essential if weare to do our full duty to the public andto the great army of employes that areengaged in the transportation industry. So rapid has been the growth of therailroad industry in this country that ithas required the very best efforts of thebuilders and managers to provide suffi-cient track, cars and engines to meet thedemand for transportation, which wasconstantly increasing in leaps and bounds.New lines were projected and new ter-minals sprang up over night, and therewas little or no opportunity for theconsideration of anything other thanmoving traffic. This probably was thecompelling reason that the prime con-sideration of Safety was subordinated tothese other important matters. (Continued on page 44)
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CopynjUhy Underwood & Underwood SCENKH ON RAILROADS THAT ARI-: FIOIODING THE TRENCHES 1—Soldiorw bting ruHlied to the front to auxmont a great drive on tho Hindenl)iirK Line. 2—Observation train.Pl( asant, but rather dangerous. .i—Tnir-k liandH on w;iy to work in trench train. ir. Captain K. D. Walker Compares Railroadingof the Fifties with Methods in Vogue Today By The Editor CHANCED recently to visit ahome nestling among the foot-hills of West Virginia and sur-rounded by an Elysian field ofbeautiful roses, and there I found theoldest employe, in point of service, ofthe Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Seatedin a big chair at a window, which over-looks the fertile valley that holds withinits bosom the pretty town of Fairmont,I found Captain K. D. Walker, approach-ing his eighty-second birthday joyfully,alert, full of vitality and with a mindand eye as sharp and clear as one of halfhis age. I had anticipated meeting a somewhatdecrepit, threadbare man from the ac-counts I had hea

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