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and Italy. When he was released at the
end of the war he had attained the rank
of sergeant.

Clerk-operator Jones got his old job
back in the Anderson agency in 1945
when he returned to civilian life. In Jan-
uary, 1951, he was promoted to agent,
succeeding M. C. Watt, who became dis-
trict freight agent.

Agent Jones was married in 1945 to
Elizabeth Clement. They have a four-
year-old daughter and live in a comfort-
able home they built on the Jones fam-
ily place near Belton. The family belongs
to the Latimer Memorial Methodist
Church where Mr. Jones serves as a
steward.

Although Agent Jones is 100% rail-
roaders now he never lost his boyhood
interest in farming. Gardening is his
main hobby but he still has his sights
on that herd of dairy cattle he hopes to
have some day.

Snow Fun Up North
[image: snow plow from the side]
[image: snow plow attached to front of locomotive]

Big snow plows like these wold be
a rare sight indeed in the South . . .
and P & N railroaders can count their
rarity as one of their finest blessings.

Snow for the northern railroads
spells trouble. During the winter
months snow fighting equipment like
this and the men who man it wage a
constant fight to keep the roadway
open for traffic.

The giant of all snow-fighting
equipment is the rotary plow (left)
which can successfully combat and
remove drifts 24 feet deep and hurl
the snow 150 to 200 feet from the
track. Today's rotary plow is a
heavy-duty machine housed in a spe-
cial car. The plow is operated by a
steam or internal combustion engine.

Even more widely used on the
American railroads is the wing plow
(right) which, propelled by one or
more locomotives, cuts through heavy
drifts and throws or piles the snow
on either side of the track.

In the early years of railroads
snow-removing devices were make-
shift, home-built contrivances which
were quickly derailed because of their
light weight. The first snowplow ever
employed on an American railraod
was built about 1826 for service on
Gridley Bryant's Granite Railway at
Quincy, Massachusetts. It consisted of
two pieces of plank fastened to a car
to form a V-shaped plow. It was not
until 1836 that the first really suc-
cessful snowplow was built.

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