H. E. Wuertenbaecker Jr., vice president, marketing, for Union Electric, presents portable color tv set to Mrs. Marguerite Bauer, 201 Dana dr., Collinsville. Mrs. Bauer, a teacher at Summit Elementary School, Collinsville, won the set in a contest conducted daily at the Union Electric booth at The Globe-Democrat's Modern Living Show.
Name Game Winner - Jesse Johnson (left) a TWA representative, gives name Game winner Donna Baer of Caseyville, IL her prize... two tickets for airline flight. She is thinking of going to Atlanta.
Name Game winner Donna Baer of Caseyville gets her prize, two tickets for a TWA flight, from Jesse Johnson, a TWA representative.
Greenbrier's Bill Furman presenting a check for $13,500 per railcar to Norm Feren, SPRR Mechanical and Bob Yates SPRR Intermodal for the purchase of obsolete multi-level railcars and their conversion into Twin 45' trailer flatcars. Work will be performed at SPRR's RAMAC facility in Roseville, CA under a $6 million contract where SPRR Mechanical at RAMAC will perform the work and be paid by
Title to the Shell Building changed hands last weeks when Nooney Realty Company, St. Louis owner of the Thirteenth and Locust streets building since 1948, merged with a Boston real estate company known as Fifty Associates. Nooney interests acquired stock in the Eastern company in exchange for the building, will continue to manage it.
Maintenance of the ballast layer directly below the ties is an essential part of a healthy track structure, as ballast degrades over time and becomes increasingly fouled reducing its ability to drain, provide adequate load bearing support, and withstand vertical, lateral, and longitudinal forces. Southern Pacific used specially trained crews who operated undercutter equipment to restore ballast that had become fouled.
The excavated material could either be fully discarded or screened and returned to the track, with only the finer parts of the ballast not being recycled.
A photograph of the Southern Pacific East Yard Control Tower in San Antonio, Texas. The photograph was taken by John Stein on April 24, 2008, the last day the tower was operational.