Show J THE OGDEH (UTAH) STANDARD-EXAMINE- E SUNDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 0 1952 SA Two Weber County Y ouths Win Trips To Chicago at the Diesel Is Hew King of the Rails — SP Will Spend $190000 to Pamper Him National Two Weber County youths will represent Utah in during Hotel Chicago Hilton Conrad at the Club Congress December of week the first Selected to make the all ex- crops contest while young Blanch mainpanse paid trip were Donald was number one in tractor Davis son of Mr and Mrs Lorin tenance " The boys will board the train M Davis of West Warren and and Mr son of Blanch in Claude Ogden Friday Nov: 28 for Mrs Leonard Blanch of West their week long stay in the WinWeber Their visit will include The Davis youth won the state dy City banquets tours and a jaunt to the Chicago Livestock' Show They will also enter national competition in the divisions they 4-- H represent Claude Blanch was also outstanding in poultry raising His efforts won him the "Weber Counpoultry contest The Davis ty youth was winner of the county farm and home electricity con4-- test CHARLES B KREHER locomotive The is emerging as the uncontested king of the rails and the Southern Pacific will spend $190000 soon to “pamper” this complicated but highly dependable piece of machinery The money' will be used to modernize and expand present shop facilities which long have represented one of the most stable and important of this railroad center's industries F1 E Kalbaugh superintendent of the Salt Lake division of the SP said the new shop would extend south and west of the present locomotive shops connecting with them and making the overall setup one of the most modern and extensive in the SP system A quick tour of the shops in (the company of Supt Kalbaugh Diesel-electrifreight unit 6369 stands on the service track at the and Master Mechanic G M Cag-le- y is an equally quick education S P shops in Ogden nndegoing refueling and servicing of lubricating oil and cooling water at end of run between Ogden and as to thb importance of the Junction City to Western American Sparks Nev diesel-electri- c v GIJn Korea Aboard ' Adopts ' 4 Ogdeniie Docked Boat Orphan Girls (AP)— One Utah men J3 among Ogdemte aboard the transport Gen Wil liam Black due here today with veterans of the Korean War He is Pfc LaVon C Jacker 1211 Gibson Ave Other Utahns include: Sgt Thomas M Anderson 756 Kensington Ave Salt Lake City Sgt Alvin D Baker 742 Bryan Ave Salt Lake City Pfc Elmo Barnes Box 532 Kaysville Cpl Raymond L Davis Kanarraville Cpl Edward L Diston Box 283 Coalville Cpl Donald R Coudy Box 162 Santaquin Pfc Lane W Hickman 5332 Knollcrest St : Murray: Pfc William K Johnson Box 423 "Fountain Green Pfc Allen G Jorgensen Castle Dale Cpl Hans R Otteson 296 W 1st South Spanish Fork Pfc Ray mond D Sleater 961 S 8th East Salt Lake City Cpl George E Sylvester Box 107 Santaquin SfeHyrum S Thomson 539 W 7th South Salt Lake City Claude Blanch - " yU:' J n O Wilford h hard-earne- d J— rfLJ 1 1 BARKER BROS INSURANCE AGENCY Is Under NEW OWNERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT at the Same Location 2636 Washington' Blvd Where You" Can Now Expect Service and Covrtesy Phone Far All Year LAIWPS i e f A Lamp fcr Every Use At Budget Prices SELECT YOURS NOW FOR XMAS GIVING 2-75- 94 Incur- - " ' Come 2636 Wash Blvd fcewwen leer— tM fm diesel-electri- c —I “Back to school night” will be beld at the Burch Creek Schoo auditorium Wednesday at 7:30 p m Parents will have an opportunity to discuss the work anc problems of their children with the teachers JXhe program will be presented by sixth grade students under direction of Mrs Enelia D Knott and Wayne N Devereaux x good-sized-trunk- 1 -- jP’Nir-iS- jl g' -- ’ ) t 1 d ’ diesel-electri- e c 10-00- ‘by-pas- ta Our Same Addren: a nee Needs -- Program Planned At Burch Creek Leonard Barker L Barker Salt Lake division main line possibly by January there won’t be any left-- All motive power passenger freight and switch will be First to Be Converted “The Southern Pacific hasn’t purchased a steam locomotive since 1944” Supt Kalbaugh said There were only three steam ocomotives built in the’ entire U S last year” said Master Mechanic Cagley” and they were air or foreign use” The Salt Lake division is the irst on the entire SP system the slated for conversion entire operation of the Ogden shopg is being changed to meet the new conditions There are 119 diesel road reight units seven diesel road switching units and nine diesel switch engines now operating out shop foreman for the Southern Pacific of the Ogden shops in addition Jim Gunnarson locomotive box of steam locomotive 4416 one of smoke railroad inspects 26 steam locomotives e in Ogden roundhouse where overhauled to be steam Progress rolled in behind an last dieselengines in use here since 1869 steam is power replacing nternal combustion engine and locomotive shops are like large There isn’t a detail about the valve and fills the storage scale garages now They’re clean- j escape haul the to without having er and the jobtumover is faster tank the rdnicn je attentlon Uhe the from Fuel and In tankers when fuel shops than in the days sponsible for their operation roundhouses were boiler factories Ogden tanks is also taken to other At the diesel record effice a with all the dirt and noise diesel servicing facilities on the tiny building which it trackside Instead of working with boil- Salt Lake division to the service pits there is a filers pipes smbke boxes and the There are more unexpected ing system that tells everything like the maintenance an repair twists for the uninitiated onlookStashed in the filing cabinets cross-indeis on crankshafts pistons wrist er In a diesel shop cards on every are electrical switches For instance in one part of part of every diesel engine oppins and coils resistors and similar equip- the shop there are repairmen erated in the Salt Lake division ment On the card is the parts numworking on little black boxes An example of time and labor Not very little really They are ber patalog number description that about the size of a savings is shown in the fact han-tllefunction manufacture number d a maintenance job can be but they do look small where it was installed and what on a diesel locomotive in beside the huge locomotive been made and repairs have require 45 Operation Is Explained when eight days that would It’s a big job because there days on a steam locomotive of “These are the traction motors comparable size and horsepower that make the locomotive go” are a lot of parts in i diesel lov smooth-runninThe yet less Cagley said "A lot of people comotive and there are a lot of Ed St Clair chemist at the Southern Pacific Ogden locomotive colorful diesels are operated 11 think the big diesel engines drive diesels on the SFs Salt Lake shops tests viscosity of lubricating oil as part of constant double 500 miles perare month while the engine direct They don’t division The mastery mechanic’ operated only The diesels supply the power to staff and the motive power decheck on whether oils 'have begun to brfak down losing their steam engines 5600 miles a month lubricating properties turn generators like those over partment thus knows everything there” — he pointed to a far there is to know about the enChange is “No Trouble” corner of the shop— and they gines they operate and service wonWhat railroad officials With the change from steam to dered about and what the shop generate the electricity to run modiesel there comes exchange in motors These traction workers themselves worried the about — changeover from steam tors fit right into the trucks and tools and machines The bugd wheel lathe always engine maintenance and repair turn the drive wheels” to diesel engine work— was acCagley also pointed out that the prominent part of jk locomoshop will have to go In complished with no trouble at ill the same motors which drive the tive “There was nothing to it Supt locomotive are also used to its" place is a smaller one dei signed to handle the drive wheels Kalbaugh said “Because of the brake it "An electric motor and an elec- of the diesels closer to the size high quality of skilled labor we have here in the Ogden shop we tric generator are the same thing of car wheels The new lathe though smaller were able to change from steam you know” he said “It’s just to diesel without even A mur- the direction of current through cost $68000 and is operated enthem that makes the difference tirely with electric controls The mur” capable of turning down Cagley said the transition was When the current goes one way lathe Is wheels as much as an inch a it’s more driving smoothmotor When the it much out goes carried s ly than anyone expected and that other way it’s a generator The and a half no loss of employment resulted resistance created by the gener Use 'Black Light down men a slows more tor the locomotive” ' There is even a ‘black light" “We have a few Another surprise to ‘the non operating in the engine repair working here on diesels than we had when w$ were all steam' railroading visitor is the chem- section where such critical ari the master mechanic said istry lab t ticles as wrist pin bearings and locomo-iv- e Because of the ease in which Chemistry lab? In other integral parts are examined the conversion was made ob' shop? for hidden cracks servers from other divisions of Yep nnd It’s something you Under infra-reof the rays the SP came to Ogden to look ori never in the world would find light cracks stresses and strains “You’d think they’d never around a 'roundhouse ora shop invisible to the naked eye leap where ’they were working on out prominently changed jobs” Cagley said Again it’s an Steps taken to maintain' and steam engines ounce of prevention” that could The laboratory Is completely avert tragedy ' improve efficiency in the care and servicing of the diesel en- equipped and is presently located The SP shops have grown since locomotive unit gines is all but unparalleled at on one end of a loft where the the ’80’s and if buildings could High-anglphoto shows interior of workers have their lockers and talk there would be th complete the large sprawling shops undergoing overhaul at Ogden shops Repairman works at one stor- eat their lunch two the Tofuel engines movblock to down story of western railroad progress end of engine which has been stripped Every 0 Ed St Clair is the head chem- coming from the old red tanks with capacity of age brick intervals at reconditioned is of regular ing part giant power plants barrels each are located at ist and he keeps his test tubes “middle shops” in the area the north end of the shops near and beakers and his meters and That was the building financed Sought his distilling equipment going all by public subscription 22nd Street Need Help to Stop Judgment from OgH M Olson filed a complaint These tanks are located direct- day long den businessmen and it has been s Drinking? from the Salt in the city court against Franz ly on a Principal reason for all the Servicing Southern Pacific locoAlcoholics Anonymous on line chemical which Co Line oil Lake apparatus Is to keep a motives from the days of the old Pipe judgment asking Behling )A Helped Vs note executed by runs between Pasco Wash and constant check on lubricating oil a diamond stacks to promissory Phono s Eldredge Glasmann Investment Boise Idaho There is a meter and cooling water used in the the present day WRITE P O BOX 12B8 OGDEN on the line and the SP just turns big diesel engines-- ' Ed knows Co The railroad era began in Og4 every oil sample by it's first den in 1869 and the Southern Paname and he’s got enough sam- cific has grown steadily since ples of water from radiators to then Now it is in the beginning cool your old family jalopy many of a ftew'ega of rail transportatimes Over tion which will farsurpas all other efforts toward progress in Trouble is ‘Sensed the past Supt Kalbaugh said this impendway By checking "“ining trouble is the expensive J nards” of a diesel freight or passenger engine can be sensed even before actual mechanical failure i Four Korean orphans will last January - LA d transportation Although there are still 28 steam passenger and freight locomotives operated by the 'SP’s to-th- have a warm spot hearts during the cold weather ahead for an Ogden GI whose spare time has been used to comfort the children In correspondence received from PVt Rex J Harvey by his foster mother Mrs Farrel E Nielson of 1936 Jackson Ave he told of the Korean war orphans he had "adopted” and had been taking care of for some time The youth who is serving 'with the Twenty-fiftAmmunition Company writes that he has taken the Responsibility of seeing to it that the four girls ranging in age from nine to 11 are not forgotten on Christmas servOut of his ice money he has spent $150 for warm winter clothing for them Accompanying one of bis recent letters home was a poem he had written while off duty Four Hubcaps Stolen Entitled “God Is With You John Burnside 1167 Oak St Soldier” it expressed his sentireported four hub caps were ments — tha he knew God was stolen from his auto while parked with him no matter how bitter near 25th Street and Jefferson the fight or how “down in the s“ Avenue mouth” he felt ' Pvt Harvey entered the Army lasfNovember and has been serving in Korea since Dozens and Dozens of railroading Most significant aspect of the j Journey is the realization that an era is ending — the era of steam ad-diti- t SAN FRANCISCO c 24th compfliw Phene 234 wood-burnin- g 63 diesel-electric- -- 3 Occurs -- “Very often the condition of the lubricating oil or the coolant shows that some part of the engine isn’t working right” said Cagley “It saves a lot of time and money and avoids delay in operation of the unit when we can almost anticipate the trod ble and get to it quickly” MOVING? Furniture Electric ke Sexes Baggage ’ Packing Staraga ' y ' Acrais The Street ar Acres Plane The State " SLADE TRAHSFER 331 22nd Street Dial $944 X Insurance Men Will Make Trip Homer Richey district mana16 members of the Ogden district agency of the Prudential Insurance Co of America will attend a Prudential business conference in Vancouver B C Nov 12 13 and 14 Accompanying Mr Richey from Ogden will be Staff managers Grant Lloyd George SeegCr and Vaughn Spendlove and Agents Glenn Bott Douglas Burnett Thomas Farner Walwyn Green Thayne Harris Owen Knudson Lewis Lloyd Clyde Mortensen Thomas Paul James Poorman Roger Spendlove and Elwyn Walker 7 ger and Asks Board Payment -- x Ann Johnson filed a complaint in the city court against Henry Wright seeking judgment of $2025 as balance for board v Voc two of my prize hogs got ill and died on me Give Utah By IVoducts a call they pick up right away- - pay high Jw3nt to get rid of them In 3 hurry prices f tool For prompt pick up of your dood animals call city of thesp numbers listed below: 369 ( itlh lb &’f lUUSS U&rQ SaR take Phone Ofden 27509 — lesan 4- 9- GaHoftd 195 AUU Uuli Hie TsUew Ce ' Jpanish Peek C3 —Haber Gty57 — UM 316 24th STREET Ohere Thousands Have I i Saved Millions 4-2- 81 City 1 I v V K |