Towerman: A Man Who Can Run Nine Trains on Eight Tracks Is One of the Reasons Why American Railroads Are Able to Carry the War Load
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Towerman: A Man Who Can Run Nine Trains on Eight Tracks Is One of the Reasons Why American Railroads Are Able to Carry the War Load
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Photos and biographical article about Earl Robertson, "[t]he guiding genius of Kansas City's Tower No. 5" for several railroads at Union Station. Description of his career at the age of 62 and role in the World War II effort, "shuffl[ing] as many as a hundred and fifty trainloads of soldiers and war equipment."
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Creator: Wellman, Paul I.
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1943-06-12
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Saturday Evening Post
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Page 38; "More trains are switched, broken up, cut in and cut out in the Kansas City yards than anywhere else in the nation. ..There are troop trains, whose destination is. ..secret. ..Dumped into a towerman-s lap, too, are the extra passenger trains made necessary by tire and gas rationing which has grounded our driving public."
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Shelf Locator
SC 73: (Folio) Collection of Magazine Article Photocopies
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Restriction on Access
This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests
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