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Ray Helle
November 28, 1953
Walter Goldstein
September 3, 1955
Scott Taber
August 24, 1957
Tom Flannery
June 13, 1959
Stanley Stamaty
February 25, 1961
Roy Fox
March 30, 1957
February 29, 1964
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Bob McGowan:
Thanks for your note.
I have one too many family members who were railroaders.
My Uncle Ralph was a “hogger” from about 1940 to about 1960, he got credits for being in the Canadian Army Railway Corps, running engines in the UK during the war and dodging V-1 craters.
My father-in-law was a CNR “Senior Conductor” for the then Mimico Yard in west end Toronto…..now “Willowbrook”…..for VIA Rial and Go-Transit.
And, a great-uncle who worked for the C.P.R. in WW-1in “traffic management” whatever that meant…he had a “certificate of accounting”.
He was then drafted in the RFC-Canada, transferred to the Canadian Army Railway Corps,but, then wound up flying for RFC-Canada @ age 35…an “old man” by standards then…from Sept. to Nov. 11th 1918….then went back to the C.P.R. for a year or two.
Anyway.
There are lots of photos thru Google that show that, that chap in a steam locomotive engineer’s bib-n-cap should have been in the reverse view looking out of the window……it would have been at least 25-years since he had been a fireman
All family members mentioned were more than happy to “retire” and get away from railroading for various sundry reasons,, and, NONE ever wished to go back if they got a call to come back.
Thanks again for your note.
Gord
Peterboro
Gord, I had no idea about the goof(s) in the ’59 cartoon, and apparently the Post editors at that time didn’t either. As far as this man goes, his being dressed for work, sitting at that window is helping him adjust, or at least I hope so.
Love #1 at the top, where Dad apparently spent so much time at the water cooler, they gave it to him. His daughter wants him to get a move on.
With #3 down, I don’t know if George is happier with his wife’s going back to work because he has more time to himself, or her income will allow for more discretionary spending, keeping the cash flowing in?
Editor:
I am quite surprised that the mistake in Tom Flannery’s cartoon about the chap retiring from the railroad got printed
The chap is being depicted as locomotive engineer by his clothing, but, that chap, if he is supposed to be a locomotive engineer would be facing the other direction out of the window. Locomotive firemen rarely retired…going by the way the the chap is leaning out the house window. They became locomotive engineers and then retired. If the chap in the window is supposed to be a conductor, then he would be wearing a formal uniform, not engineer’s “bib” and cap.
Sincerelly.
Gord Young-Peterboro ON [still note in the 51st state]