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Even though the office is New York-
ish in a sense, it hasn't lost its South-
ern accent by any means. The South
is well represented by General East-
ern Agent Gene Culbreath, a tall,
square-shouldered South Carolinian
who has the big city in his stride.

Not unlike a country boy in South
Carolina, Gene Culbreath rolls out of
bed in his Long Island apartment every
morning at six. By 7:15 he is on the
Long Island Railroad heading for the
Woolworth Building. In the after-
noons it takes him until 6:20 to get
home, but only a minute more to get
his shoes off.

In between commuting, Trafficman
Culbreath and his staff probably do
as much work as some people manage
to do in twice the time. The territory
covered from the New York office
extends from Canada to Washington
and from the Atlantic Ocean to Pitts-
burgh.

Assignment freight

The mission of the New York office
is two-fold. First, it provides service
and information for shippers concern-
ing traffic handled by the two rail-
roads. Secondly, it is responsible for the
development of freight traffic, much of
which is controlled from New York. In
addition to these major functions, the
New York staff represents the rail-
roads in any appropriate matters per-
taining to traffic, service, industrial
development, information, etc.

In a city the size of New York big-
ness is often used as a yardstick for
measuring ability. That makes it
doubly hard to sell the services of two
relatively small, relatively distant rail-
roads. The New York traffic staff is
doing an excellent job of proving to
Easterners (and to New Yorkers in
particular) that the P & N and D & S
can move box cars as well or better
than the next railroad.

[image: aerial view down city street]

BROADWAY, from the Woolworth Building, cuts a
deep rut through Manhattan as it heads north.
Further up it cuts across to Times Square.

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