| Show Southern Utah Rail Agents Spotlighted 6 In an n Green Light The Denver and Rio Grandes Grande's newspaper Green Light of September 15 holds much of interest to folks of this area with railroaders from local stations stations stations sta sta- being featured This very interesting monthly publication is an official organ of the theD theD D R G W. W Featured on page 11 of the Green Light are railroad agents from this branch of the r rail a ail ailline 11 line including Joe Nelson A. A L. L Lund F F. A. A Chryst and Fred operators of Sanpete Sanpete Sanpete San San- pete stations station Agent Chryst rates a column 3 picture as he shows off some of the turkeys shipped through his Moroni station He expects to see a total of carloads of frozen turkeys shipped from Moroni in 1957 Last year the Moroni plant processed more than 12 million net pounds of turkeys birds shipping most of them via Rio Grande Agent Joe Nelson is shown talking with Cap Mogle who retired in 1937 after a long career career career car car- eer with the Denver and Rio Grande Grandc Joe has beep been with the railroad since 1951 I Agent A. A L Ll Ll Lund has served I in Ephraim s since nce 1941 and has and has 28 years of service with the D R G. G He is pictured in inthe inthe inthe the Green Light as he takes tokes a aphone aphone aphone phone call in his station Agent Fred of Mt l Pleasant is pictured at his typewriter and is one of the Rio Grande agents who will re retire retire re- re re-I re tire soon Other pictures show Agent R. R P P. Howard of Sigurd who had hada I a record volume e of carloads carloads carloads car car- loads in 1956 Agent R R. L L. L Spiers Spiers Spiers Spi Spi- ers of Richfield and crews from Marysvale and Mt Pleasant Al Almost Almost Al- Al I AI-I most two full pages are taken up by this feature II Safety Man I Also featured in the September Septem Septem- ber Green Light is i Robert D D. D Davis who has been with Rio Grande for more than 50 years and is Safety M Man n of th the Month 1 for September He lIe has never been injured during his long servIce with the railroad Bob is no stranger as he made his home in Manti ManU for fOl many years while working on the Thistle Marysvale branch of D DIt 1 It R G. G He and his wife still sUll call Manti home and spend vocations vacations in the surrounding mountains and make regular visits with ManU Monti relatives They now reside at 1568 1508 South East Enst Salt Lake City |
