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Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Railroads -- Employees -- Periodicals Railroads -- United States -- Employees
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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Aftersix months he left to run on steamers plyingbetween New York and New Orleans, butin 1887 he came back to the Baltimore andOhio, on the lighter Murphy. Later hewas transferred to the lighter Miller,then promoted to the S. J. Clarke. Heremained on this lighter for 13 years, thenspent 16 years more on the steam hoisterPatuxent. Prom here he was trans-ferred to £hft lighter Number no, wherehe spent 6ne4rear, making a total of 33 yearsof continut>iis service in the Baltimore andOhio Lighterage Department. Mr. Tl^J^iS^on was pensioned on January17, this j4afvv Robert F. Huffman Robert F.-Hufl^man, pensioned pattern-maker, was bom in Sonora, Ohio, on Alarch27, 1854. He first entered the service of theCompany on Maj^ i, 1870, as carpenter atZanesviUe, Ohio. He tells his own stor>: My first experience with the Baltimoreand Ohio before I entered the service waswhen I discovered a broken rail as I waswalking along the track one day. The rail 44 Baltimore and Ohio Magazine, July, iq2i
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MANY YEARS OF FAITHFUL SERVICE ARE REPRESENTED HERETop row: lata es Rowan; John W.Tracy; Robert T. Huffman; Robert Singleton. Second row: George W. Sears; John W. Weakly; Wilbur McKenzie(above); Robert J. Cobaugh; David B. Riley. Third row: Frank J. Donraoyer; Martin Thompson; W. L. Alderton; B. F. Long; Glen C. Lapham. Fourth row: Mahlon H. Redman; James McLaughlin; John Cull; Herman Figlestahler Baltimore and Ohio Magazine, July, 1921 45 was also thrown out of place. I replaced itas best I could, then watched for the firsttrain. Soon I heard one coming from theWest. I ran back, and with my red hand-kerchief flagged the train, for I guessed wellwhat the result would be had the traincrossed over the rail. As soon as the trainwas stopped, I got such a blessing that itwould not look well in print. Then, with-out telling the engineer the trouble, I got upon the engine and slowed him down to theplace where an accident might have oc-curred. When he saw it, he thanked me,spiked down the rai

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