Show RESL GRAY GRA HAIR to 4 I MAN AT THROTTLE TELLS STORY 0 Case Casey Jones a Driver n Seventeen Years Tells Just What It Means toBe to toBe Be an En Engineer Engineer Con Con neer-Con- Confidence Con Con- Greatest Rei Re- Re i N By CASEY JONES Lycurgus McDowell jt I It t takes three things to make 2 successful engineer engineer to to make an engineer I might say because a any y man who has the stuff in him t an engine is is successful ati at l i ig r There is no middle ground Either you can drive or you c cant ht i ut these three things which ar ate artl necessary for every engine driver to have ve are NERVE i GOOD JUDGMENT SELF SELF ELF CONFIDENCE j nd the greatest of the three Is self I c confidence Jt It is a great deal like driving an anto auto alto to as far as the mechanical part 8 t the Job is concerned You watch tj o signals of the semaphore Just as the tho auto driver drivel watches the arm of traffic copOn cop On cloudy or foggy nights when you dont don't catch even a twinkle of the flock block lock until you are right upon it a avers aver's divers diver's vers ver's Judgment comes in He must know w how fast to run It is then more than any other time time that a man thinks of the q people eople behind him the him the lives he Is Responsible for Maybe hes he's a aI I worried Perhaps he says a prayer for the safety of the trip Engine drivers are as far as my ao no- q goes deep thinkers on serious senous lines Its It's the sort of Job that t makes hakes 1 kes men think A slip means so much Life and death are mighty real t things ings in an engine cab on a stormy night U vf fJ l have been driving an engine seventeen sev sew e It enteen teen years My father was an engineer engi angi neer I was born you might say on right of way I have never been inan in inan an accident since I began passenger passengers s Service I The average run of a passenger eni en i g b neer is five hours Some men work even T n less perhaps four hours SI tl 1 was 45 my last birthday I am comparatively mp young in the train service servo serve I I e ice There are few lines of work where ere real old men remain so efficient efficient effi effi- everything being equal their equal their e eyesight and hearing I I mean 4 I never ever think of the possibility of of jf accident the he The other day I was talking with a aman aman aman man who drives an auto I asked him if the If-the the thought of a a steering gear breaking or a wheel coming off ever occurred to him tJ I dont don't allow myself to think of ot Mich sUh thin things s he said What is to be WILL be That is the mental attitude of the he engine driver He Is a fatalist He starts on a trip His objective i is the end of the division He expects to reach that point point means means to if given givena a a. chance He doesn't know of course if the law of fatality is working with him or against him Nerve and good Judgment are of course quite different An engineer might have the nerve to attempt a athing athing athing thing against odds and he might come through all right But It Isn't this personal risk ilone lone that concerns him Its It's the responsibility for other lives that rings brings gray hairs and sometimes causes causes the best men In the service to break under the strain The Job requires concentration Your dour ur mind cant can't wander one minute or pr one one half half minute minute no no nor one one half half S 'S see second and nd from that track in front of you ou re re taking chances if you dont don't con con- rr pen One ne of the most efficient men in the Pennsylvania service is 65 66 years year oage of age His name Is Charles Westerman Wester- Wester man IP man n. n He has been driving a a. cab fifty years and he is as good today as when he started started better better in fact bemuse be muse cause use his nerve is iron and his Judg Judg- nt has been tried through fire 1 1 sir i r n r a r rh h 1 vi io- io r I r f r r rJ rt t I t rr rrT I J c T 4 I 1 1 r a e r 3 c w 1 rJ tt p pi i y s I al I f r s Casey Jones In his cab on a Pennsylvania engine His right name is Lycurgus McDowell a. a and d he has been an en seventeen years He was named Casey Jones when a song of that name became n. n popular and last year was voted the champion baseball fan of America in a nation wide contest conducted by N N. N E E. E A newspapers newspaper |