Montgomery-Baltimore-Howard County MD Archives News..... TRAIN DIRECTOR RETIRES AFTER 32 YEARS-HE'S GOING FISHING May 1, 1939 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/md/mdfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Maureen Moore odubhghaill@gmail.com August 7, 2006, 7:39 pm Washington Post May 1, 1939 TRAIN DIRECTOR RETIRES AFTER 32 YEARS-HE'S GOING FISHING 1 May 1939 Union Station Washington DC Washington Post May 1, 1939 -------------------------- TRAIN DIRECTOR RETIRES AFTER 32 YEARS-HE'S GOING FISHING. John A. Feeney is going fishing. At midnight last night, in "A" tower of Union Station. Feeney pulled a couple of levers which threw a couple of lights, shouted something into an inter office telephone and watched The C & O Southbound limited speed out of the station. He thus ended 49 years of working on the Railroad. Feeney, 65, a resident of Kensington, MD, leaves he said with no regrets. "I want to have a little time of my own and see what it like to be without a boss. Besides, I've always wanted to have time to go hunting and fishing. I've seen all the trains I ever want to." The Veteran at the control board recalled the first days at the levers were the worst. Only months after he became Train Rector, President Taft was inaugurated in one of the worst snow storms Inauguaral ? (traffic I think) were stalled from here to Baltimore. Telephone lines were down and consumption was up. The tradition of Railroading will be kept going in the Feeney Family, however. His son John W. Feeney is carrying on as assistant train rector at the terminal the same his father has held for 32 years. The elder Feeney has handled an average of 65 train movements for 313 days a year in 32 years, without a single accident or ?. His final score: No hits, no ?, and about 630,000 runs. ------------------------------------ Some words were cut off and could not read it. MM Additional Comments: This was the retirement of my great grandfather as rector from Union Station in 1939. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mdfiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb