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LETTERS FROM AN OLD
RAILWAY OFFICIAL
SECOND SERIES
TO HIS SON, A GENERAL MANAGER
BY
Charles DeLano Hine
1912
Published by the
SIMMONS-BOARDMAN PUBLISHING CO.
NEW YORK
McGraw-Hill Book Company, Sole Selling Agents
239 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York
London, E.C., 6 Bouverie Street. Berlin, N.W. 7, Unter den Linden 71
Copyright, 1912, by
Simmons-Boardman Publishing Co.
new york
FOREWORD.
The author of the letters composing this book, which appeared seriallyin the Railway Age Gazette in 1911, is a West Point graduate.He served as a lieutenant in the 6th United States Infantry. He is acivil engineer. He is a graduate of the Cincinnati Law School. Leavingthe Army to enter railway service, he worked as freight brakeman,switchman, yardmaster, emergency conductor, chief clerk tosuperintendent, and trainmaster. When the war with Spain began in 1898he quit railway service and participated in the Santiago campaign as amajor of volunteers. After the war he re-entered railway work, and wastrainmaster and later general superintendent. Subsequently, he didspecial railway work in various staff positions for both large andsmall railways in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
He was for a time inspector of safety appliances for the InterstateCommerce Commission. In 1907 he assisted in the revision of thebusiness methods of the Department of the Interior at Washington, D.C.Then he was receiver of the Washington, Arlington & Falls ChurchElectric Railway. In 1910, as temporary special representative ofPresident Taft, he outlined a scheme for improving the organizationand methods of the executive departments of the United Statesgovernment. Meantime, in July, 1908, he had become specialrepresentative of Mr. Julius Kruttschnitt, director of maintenance andoperation of the Harriman Lines, and had entered on a study of theneeds of the operating organization of those railways and of the meansthat should be adopted to meet those needs. The result of this workwas the adoption by most of the Harriman Lines of the unit system oforganization. On January 15, 1912, Major Hine became vice-presidentand general manager of the Southern Pacific Lines in Mexico and theArizona Eastern, having about 1,600 miles of railway.
The foregoing details have not been given for biographical purposes.They have been give